Dear GLIMS colleagues, At last I have a confirmation of the logistical information for the GLIMS workshop, to be held Sep. 2-3 in Chamonix, France, following the IGS Symposium. We have reserved a room for 60 persons (maximum), so I urge you to confirm your participation soon, including the number of people in your group who expect to attend. We will charge a workshop fee of approximately 17.20 euros/person, which will be collected on site. This will include room and equipment rental and 4 coffee/tea breaks (two per day). I understand that the deadline for pre-registration at the IGS Symposium has passed 2 days ago. Since I only now obtained a confirmation of these GLIMS workshop logistics, I will attempt to obtain a temporary waiver for late registration fee for the IGS meeting, though I cannot assure this will be possible. I should also say that it is not necessary for you to be an active contributor to the GLIMS project to make a presentation at this workshop, but I only ask that the subject material should relate closely to the topics of Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, field validation of remote sensing measurements of glaciers, glaciological modeling relevant to glacier measurements. For boarding you will have the same options as for IGS meeting participants (29 euro /day with lunch and dinner included, in double room, extra 13.30 euro for single). Please go ahead and book your flights and make other logistical arrangements. Please also reply as soon as possible with the following information; please provide one response for each talk (or poster): I plan to attend: Yes No Number of attendees this response represents I plan to make a presentation: Yes No If yes to above, title of my presentation: I prefer: Oral presentation Poster presentation Finally, on an unrelated matter, I have word that the new NASA pricing policy for ASTER data (which has yet to be made public) is not in place as of this moment, to our knowledge. This situation of currently free ASTER data will not last much longer, according to what I have been hearing. So place your data orders as soon as possible. Cheers, Jeffrey S. Kargel U.S. Geological Survey 2255 N. Gemini Dr. Flagstaff, AZ 86001 Telephone (+1) (928) 556-7034 Fax (+1) (928) 556-7014 Email: jkargel@usgs.gov Home email: jkargel@flaglink.com Home phone: (+1)(928) 527-4196