in the trenches/climate
6. Hot Spots
International Negotiations of the Climate Treaty
June 2-12, 1998: The interim negotiations on climate will take place in Bonn, Germany.
November 2-13, 1998: The UNFCCC Fourth Session of the Conference of the Parties, or COP4, will occur in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Other Upcoming Events:
Check out how climate change is expected to affect your community in conferences on global warming, sponsored by the EPA and the US Global Change Researach Program:
February 26, 1998: A regional conference on climate change, sponsored by the U.S. EPA, will take place at the Holiday Inn Select in Philadelphia; cosponsors include the Academy of Natural Sciences and BP America. For more information, contact the EPA [http://eis.wpi.org/epaworkshop/midatlantic/overview.html].
February 16-18 : A regional impact conference, sponsored by the USGCRP, on the Rocky Mountains and the Great Basin will take place at Utah State University. For more information, contact Dr. Fred Wagner [fwagner@cc.usu.edu].
February 25-27: A science workshop on the Gulf Coast at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Contact Dr. Kamran Abdollahi [KABDO@prodigy.net] or Dr. Zhu Hua Ning [LMTK99A@prodigy.com].
March 2-4, 1998: Regional science workshop on Texas and the Southern Great Plains in El Paso, Texas. Contact Herman Mayeux [hsm@ars.usda.gov] and Robbie Rand [rrand@nalusda.gov].
March 3-6, 1998: Regional science workshop on Hawaii and the Pacific Islands in Honolulu, at the University of Hawaii. Contact Eileen Shea [shea@cola.iges.org].
March 3-6, 1998: Regional science workshop on California at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Contact Dr. Robert Wilkinson [wilkinso@envst.ucsb.edu].
March 23-24: USGCRP Metropolitan East Coast regional assessment workshop in New York City at Columbia University.
May 5-7: USGCRP Upper Great Lakes regional assessment workshop in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan.
May 26-29: USGCRP Central Appalachia regional assessment workshop at West Virginia University.
Spring (tentative) * USGCRP Eastern Midwest regional assessment workshop.
Spring (tentative) * USGCRP Caribbean and the Southern Atlantic Coast regional assessment workshop.
For more information on any of the above conferences, check out the EPA website calendar, [http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/news/calendar.html], or contact Melissa Taylor [mtaylor@usgcrp.gov] of the United States Global Change Research Program.
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