A symposium on lidar atmospheric applications, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and organized by the AMS Committee on Laser Atmospheric Studies, will be held 11-15 January 2009 as part of the 89th AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. The deadline for abstracts is 1 August 2008.
Please submit your abstract electronically at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html. An abstract fee of $90 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted). The $90 abstract fee now includes the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation, which will be archived on the AMS website. Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) in late September 2008. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available online via the web; instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS website. All abstracts, extended abstracts, and presentations will be available on the AMS website at no cost.
For additional information please contact the program chairpersons:
Belay Demoz, Howard University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2355 6TH Street, NW, Washington, DC 20059 (tel: +1 202-806-6256; email: bbdemoz@howard.edu)
Jennifer Comstock, PNNL, PO Box 999 MSIN K9-24, Richland, WA 99352 (tel: +1 509-372-4244; email: jennifer.comstock@pnl.gov)
Andreas Behrendt, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physics and Meteorology, Garbenstr. 30, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany (tel: +49 711 459 22851, email: behrendt@uni-hohenheim.de).
Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS website in late September.