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<span class="Apple-style-span" DEFANGED_STYLE="font-family: Tahoma; "><pre style="white-space: normal; ">Dear GLIMS colleagues,</pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">A GLIMS miniworkshop and then a related Mass Balance Terminology meeting will take place on July 22, 2009, in room 516a in the Palais des Congres (the MOCA-09 venue). Bruce Raup and I have developed the following agenda. We solicit presentations or discussion topics from attendees. Please send additional titles or topics to Jeff Kargel, or just bring them to the meeting.<br></pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">The day's agenda will be approximately as follows (with fluidity to allow for addition or deletion of talks):<br><br>Participants should plan to have breakfast on their own before the meeting.<br><br>8:45: Introduction, including personal introductions, and an overview of<br>plans for a major GLIMS workshop in Mendoza, Argentina, November 2010<br>(Kargel).<br><br>9:00: GLIMS Book status (Kargel)<br><br>9:15: Recent RC activity, new data in the database, DB stats (Raup)<br><span class="Apple-style-span" DEFANGED_STYLE="font-family: Tahoma; "><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">9:45: Movement to merge or cross-link GLIMS and WGMS databases, plus<br>NSIDC's glacier photography database -- all under the GTN-G umbrella. This work will also feature a web site that has an interactive map combining these datasets. (Raup)</pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">10:05: Updates on tool development, GLACE comparisons (glacier outlining experiments) (Raup)</pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">10:30: Break</pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">11:00: SISMOD (Snow-Ice-Soil MODel), A radiative transfer model for complex mixtures, Jeff Kargel on behalf of Roberto Furfaro</pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">11:10-11:30: Fuzzy C Means approach to classification of Root Glacier, comparisons to manual methods of classification, and field validation (Furfaro, Kargel) </pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">11:30-11:50: Introduction to GLACE-CLASS (GLacier Analysis Comparison Experiment--CLASSification): Overview of some classification approaches and the need for the experiment (Kargel, Leonard, and Furfaro)</pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">11:50 Scheduling of early afternoon talks by attendees</pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">12:00: Lunch</pre></span></pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">1:30: Science updates, issues arising, and general discussion.<br>Please forward to Jeff Kargel your presentation titles/topics and time<br>request, or just come to the meeting with them; but please don't duplicate MOCA-09 presentations, or minimize duplication of presentations.<br></pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">15:00 Break</pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">15:15: Mass Balance Terminology (MBT) meeting, covering topics including<br>definition of glacier, glacier length, mass balance terminology, and so on. (Cogley and Kaser, with contributions by Bruce Raup)<br><br>17:00 Closing<br><br>(end)</pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; "><br></pre><pre DEFANGED_STYLE="white-space: normal; ">--Jeff Kargel</pre></span><br /><hr />Bing™ finds low fares by predicting when to book. <a href='http://www.bing.com/travel/deals/airline-ticket-deals.do?form=MTRHPG&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TXT_MTRHPG_Travel_Travel_TravelDeals_1x1' target='_new'>Try it now.</a></body>
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