FW: Second announcement - Virtual Observatories in Geosciences 2007

[Robert Hanisch]

This may be of interest to some of you in the astro-VO community...

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Second announcement: Virtual Observatories in Geosciences 2007
(VOiG) http://www.egy.org/VOiG (voig at egy.org)
The Curtis Hotel, Denver Colorado, USA - June 12-15, 2007

You are invited to participate and contribute to the first virtual
observatories
in geosciences conference (VOiG). Each day features plenary and
parallel (breakout) sessions
to cover areas of broad interests as well as the opportunity for
detailed discussions.
Time is allowed for posters, breaks to facilitate interactions
amongst the worldwide
VO community. The conference is sponsored by the Electronic
Geophysical Year (eGY),
USGS, NASA, NSF, SCOSTEP and NCAR. While this conference focuses on
geosciences, all
interested disciplines are invited to participate.

June 11 features half/one-day workshops also at the conference venue.
Proposals for
workshop are still welcome.

A preliminary program agenda with session topics is now available at
the web site.
http://www.egy.org/VOiG/Agenda.html

Register at: http://vsto.hao.ucar.edu/voig_conference/registration.html
Submit an abstract at: http://vsto.hao.ucar.edu/voig_conference/
abstracts.html

Please make your hotel reservations as soon as possible (see the web
site for details).

Please join us in Denver in June and please pass this on to your
colleagues.

---Peter Fox (chair of VOiG Science Organizing Committee). voig at egy.org