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I.A.G./A.I.G. Working Group

SEDIBUD

Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments

Second I.A.G./A.I.G. SEDIBUD Workshop

Sediment Fluxes and Sediment Budgets in Changing

High-Latitude and High-Altitude Cold Environments

September 15 – 19, 2007,

Abisko, Sweden

- Second Circular (May 30, 2007) -

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Dear all,

We would like to invite you to participate in the Second Workshop of the I.A.G./A.I.G.

Working Group SEDIBUD (Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments), which will take

place in Abisko, Sweden, from September 15

- 19, 2007.

Themes of the Workshop:

The Workshop will address major topics of the I.A.G./A.I.G. Working Group

SEDIBUD. The focus is on High-Latitude and High-Altitude Cold Environments and

contributions to the following themes are invited:

Source-to-Sink Fluxes / Correlations and Sediment Budgets

Source-to-Sink and Sediment Budget Studies and Global Change

Source-to-Sink and Sediment Budget Studies at Different Scales

Exogenous - Endogenous Interactions and Source-to-Sink and Sediment

Budget Studies

The Workshop will provide a multinational and interdisciplinary forum for exchanging

and sharing knowledge. The major purpose of the Workshop is to take further the

issues addressed and discussed within SEDIFLUX (2004 – 2006) and I.A.G./A.I.G.

SEDIBUD (2005 - ) (http://www.geomorph.org/wg/wgsb.html).

Central issues of working group sessions will be the further discussion of relevant

science questions to be addressed within the SEDIBUD programme, the presentation

and discussion of the SEDIFLUX Manual (First Edition), the presentation, open

discussion and selection of SEDIBUD key test sites (catchments), the development

(concept) of the SEDIBUD metadata database, and the development of further ideas

to continue and to extend the scientific activities, which have been started within

SEDIFLUX and SEDIBUD.

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Preliminary Programme of the Workshop:

September 15, 2007:

Arrival at the Abisko Mountain Station

Registration from 15:00 onwards.

Reception from 16:00 onwards.

Excursion "Abisko in 60 minutes" in the evening.

Dinner

September 16, 2007:

Paper and Poster Sessions

Presentation of proposed SEDIBUD key test sites

Dinner

September 17, 2007:

Excursion to Latnjavagge and Kårsavagge

Working Group Sessions

Dinner

September 18, 2007:

Excursion to Kärkevagge

Working Group Sessions

Conference Dinner

September 19, 2007:

Final Discussion and Closing of the Workshop

Departure of Workshop participants before lunch.

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Registration and Abstract Submission:

Those who have not yet registered and want to participate in the SEDIBUD

Workshop:

Please send your Registration and Abstract(s) (only Poster Presentations are still

possible: please send one page word attachment as abstract) electronically to:

Armelle Decaulne: armelle@nnv.is

The Final Deadline for Registration, Abstract Submission and Suggestion of

SEDIBUD Key Test Sites is August 1, 2007

Publications:

Accepted abstracts will be published in the NGU Report Series.

The publication of a special issue of a leading international journal arising from the

SEDIBUD Workshop is planned (given an adequate number of accepted full papers).

Travelling and Accommodation:

General information on travelling to Abisko is available at http://www.kiruna.se and

http://www.abisko.nu.

The easiest and cheapest way to travel to Abisko is via flight to Stockholm Arlanda

Airport (http://www.arlanda.se) and Night-train (http://www.connex.se) from

Stockholm to Abisko.

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Payments:

Detailed information on accommodation and costs of accommodation and meals is

available in the Second Attached Document prepared by the Abisko Mountain

Station.

Please notice that All Payments for Accommodation and Meals (see prices in the

Second Attachment prepared by the Abisko Mountain Station) as well as the

Workshop Fee of 1300 SEK (Swedish Crowns) have to be made

Before August 1, 2007 .

Payments together with Bookings for Accommodation and Meals should be

made directly to the Abisko Mountain Station (see Second Attachment for

further information ).

Payment of the Workshop Fee (1300 SEK) should be made to the following

SEDIBUD bank account:

Dr Armelle Decaulne – SEDIBUD

IBAN: FR76 1952 5000 9204 7740 5203 036

BIK: CEPAFRPP952

All Payments for Accommodation, Meals and the Workshop Fee

must be made before August 1, 2007, in order to confirm

participation in the SEDIBUD Workshop.

The Workshop Fee includes payments for the two field excursions:

Excursion to Latnjavagge and Kårsavagge: Helicopter flight to Latnjajaure

Field Station (LFS) and hike back to Abisko

Excursion to Kärkevagge

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Further details of the I.A.G./A.I.G. SEDIBUD Working Group can be found at:

http://www.geomorph.org/wg/wgsb.html

Please forward this message to colleagues and students that would eventually be

interested to participate in the Workshop.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Abisko.

Yours sincerely,

Achim A. Beylich, Chair of SEDIBUD (Norway)

Scott F. Lamoureux , Vice-Chair of SEDIBUD (Canada)

Armelle Decaulne, Secretary of SEDIBUD (France)