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RAPID-WATCH

International Science Meeting

This year our annual science meeting will be an international joint initiative between the RAPID-WATCH and the US AMOC science programmes.

The meeting will be held at the @Bristol Science & Discovery centre, Harbourside, Bristol, UK, from midday on 12 July to midday on 15 July 2011.

The meeting will explore the scientific understanding of Atlantic variability on a range of scales, with a main focus on the role of the AMOC. The science themes for the meeting will be:

  1. What do we know about present and past changes in the AMOC on seasonal to millennial scales?
  2. How does the AMOC influence ocean, atmosphere and terrestrial climate and ecosystems?
  3. How will the AMOC change over the next few decades and over the 21st century?
  4. Outlook and challenges.

Confirmed key note speakers to address the science meeting are:

  • Johanna Baehr - University of Hamburg
  • Stuart Cunningham - National Oceanography Centre
  • Henk Dijkstra - Utrecht University
  • Sirpa Hakkinen - NASA GSFC
  • Susan Lozier - Duke University
  • Jean Lynch-Stieglitz - Georgia Tech
  • Jochem Marotzke - Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
  • Tony Rosati - NOAA GFDL
  • Rowan Sutton - University of Reading
  • Tim Woolings - University of Reading

This event is open to all and we would like to encourage non-RAPID scientists to attend, therefore there will be no fee and all attendees are invited to attend the science meeting dinner.

All attendees will need to book their own accommodation, and a list of hotels close to the venue can be found in the document below.

Bristol hotels (193KB)

NERC will reimburse travel and subsistence claims of up to £450 from all RAPID-WATCH scientists and two scientists from each RAPID grant, up to a maximum of 70 people (if more than 70 attendees are eligible, a decision on who to reimburse will be made on a first come first serve basis).

Please use our online registration form to register. The closing date is 10 June 2011.

The deadline for abstract submissions Link to external site is 21 March 2011.

For further details of this event please contact Jessica Batchelor.

Event registration