Announcement: GLIMS Workshop in Boulder, June 16-18

[Bruce Raup]

Dear GLIMS RCs, Stewards, and affiliates,

As many of you know, there have been several highly successful GLIMS
Workshops over the past 8 years in such locations as Switzerland, Maryland,
France, Norway, England, and New Zealand, and some smaller meetings in
Italy, California and Arizona.  It has been 7 years since there has been a
GLIMS workshop in the United States with significant international
participation. We are therefore planning on holding a GLIMS workshop in
Boulder, Colorado, as described in detail below.

GLIMS Workshop
Boulder, Colorado
June 16-18 (Monday-Wednesday), 2008

Duration:               2.5 days (half day on Day Three)

Through this workshop we seek to review and advance the current state of
knowledge regarding several key topics that are of direct relevance to
glacier studies based on remote sensing.  These are:

1.  DEM generation from satellite stereo pairs
2.  Mapping ice divides
3.  Mapping debris covered glaciers
4.  Challenges in assessing change through comparisons with older data
5.  Other major hurdles in satellite glacier mapping

Workshop participants are invited to make presentations that address
specific questions related to one or more of these topics, such as:

a.    What are the best tools and methods for the problem? How can these be
      best shared with the GLIMS community?
b.    Where are the main problems?  What steps need special attention?
c.    What additional methods or algorithms need to be developed?
d.    Can we agree on specific protocols, definitions or procedures to help
      the GLIMS community deal with this topic?
e.    What additional assistance can be provided to help make dealing with
      this topic easier for others in GLIMS?

Draft Program:

Day One

  Overview of Topics, presented by GLIMS participants, followed by short
  talks reporting on research results or current developments relevant to
  one or more of the topics.

Day Two

  Working groups focused on each of the topics. The aim would be to
  summarize current knowledge and key issues, share techniques and problems
  with current algorithms and methods, and to develop recommendations for
  best practices and an action plan.

Day Three

  Plenary session:  Report summaries from working group sessions, identify
  next steps.

The results of the workshop will be compiled into a report, with intent to
submit it for publication.  In addition, a section of the glims.org Web
site will show the results of these working groups and disseminate
algorithms and computer code.

Please let us know (e-mail to me, braup at nsidc.org, and Richard Armstrong,
rlax at nsidc.org) as soon as possible if you plan to attend this workshop so
that we may start on the necessary organizational tasks that will be
required at NSIDC.

Best regards,
Bruce Raup, for the NSIDC GLIMS team

http://glims.org/Workshops/

-- 
Bruce H. RAUP
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
449 UCB,  Boulder, CO 80309
Phone:  303-492-8814
http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/