[GLIMS] CEOS affiliated workshop; other meeting of opportunity

[Dr. Andrew B.G. Bush]

Hi Jeff,
I'll be there, so count me in.
Cheers,
Andy...

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Jeffrey <jeffreyskargel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear GLIMS colleagues,
> I seek your interest/involvement in this opportunity, which is still in
> definition and hence includes a possibility for you to influence the
> process, goals, and regions of interest.
>
> We have an opportunity to provide input to CEOS, the Committee on Earth
> Observation Satellites. This input presently is to be provided through the
> CEOS working group on Disasters, but our input might ultimately extend
> beyond the disaster theme. High-mountain  multi-process hazards and
> disasters associated with glaciers is the initial focal point.
>
> Pending GLIMS/GAPHAZ/glacier community interest, I will host a 1-day
>  meeting (4 to 8 hours, depending on feedback) on Sunday 11 December, 2016,
> in San Francisco, prior to the AGU meeting. (Specific venue pending.) Our
> goals will be to explore possible satellite-observing hotspots, where we
> may have a potential to acquire abundant coordinated satellite data of many
> types oriented around the theme of "Satellite Observations to Cover
> Multi-Process Glacier Hazard and Disaster Hotspots: Nepal, Cascades, and
> Northern Andes."   Where glaciers occur in high mountains, there may
> exist other hazard processes in additions to those directly connected with
> ice: seismicity, meteorological floods, and volcanic eruptions, for
> example.  These may trigger cascading processes, which may include ice and
> snow avalanches, rockfalls and large landslides, river damming impoundment
> floods and landslide dammed lake outburst floods, glacial lake outburst
> floods and debris flows, lahars, etc.   I solicit brief presentations (5 to
> 20 minutes, as desired and permitted by the available time) and extended
> discussion of what could constitute needed high-intensity, multi-sensor
> satellite observations over focused hotspot regions.  The Nepal Himalaya
> and the Cascades have already been proposed as CEOS hotspots.  I wish to
> make a case supporting these and our involvement, but also make a case for
> at least one more focus area, which I propose to be the northern Andes,
> where glaciers and snow coexist with glacial lakes, high seismicity,
>  and/or volcanoes.   The Andes hotspot may include any combination of
> Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia.  I am not excluding other ideas.  I cannot
> make promises about where this initiative will go, except to say that NASA
> has encouraged our exploration of such concepts.
>
> I will learn more about CEOS and the CEOS process and interests later this
> week and will have amendments to this announcement to those who send me an
> expression of interest.
>
> There is an option of holding another related meeting of opportunity in
> Kathmandu after the Tihar celebration on November 2, 3, or 4, again pending
> local interest in that case, where I presume the focus of interest would be
> satellite observation planning over Nepal.
>
> If interested in either meeting, please  respond with your thoughts and
> indication of interest and include the word CEOS in your subject line.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeff Kargel
>
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