[SCCOOS] California and the World Ocean Conference - Abstract Submission Deadlines

[jorcutt at ucsd.edu]

As you may already know, the California Ocean Protection Council (COPC) is
organizing the California and the World Ocean Conference to be held in Long
Beach on 17-20 September 2006.  SCCOOS and CeNCOOS are teaming to promote
California ocean observations at this conference, and are in the process of
confirming with conference organizers that there will be a California Ocean
Observing track.  Abstracts for topical sessions are due this Friday, 14
April.  The final deadline for all abstracts is 12 May.

Although ocean observing systems are mentioned in the strategic planning
documents of the COPC, ocean observing is not currently a session topic option
in the online abstract submission form. We therefore ask you place the
following statement at the beginning of your ocean observing system related
abstract; this will aid conference organizers in deciding either to dedicate a
session to ocean observations, or to allow a "dispersed track," with relevant
abstracts in all sessions marked with an asterisk indicating that this talk or
poster is related to ocean observing systems:

[This abstract is affiliated with California Ocean Observing systems or is
related to California ocean observations and products.]

Please note that over 1,000 attendees are expected at this conference, and
that the State will be well represented. Senior representatives of NOAA and
NSF are also planning to attend and to speak. We view this as an excellent
opportunity to focus attention on California observing systems, to highlight
the work that the State has thus far funded, and the capabilities of the
existing and emergent systems.  Raising awareness and demonstrating utility of
the observing systems will be key to linking policy and decision makers with
our activities.  Presentations should be targeted for a general audience.

Please let us know if you submit an abstract, so that we can include your work
in the conference materials that we plan to develop.  For SCCOOS, please
contact Stephanie Peck at speck at ucsd.edu.  For CeNCOOS, please contact Heather
Kerkering at heather at mbari.org.

General Conference website and the online abstract submission form can be
found at:

http://resources.ca.gov/ocean/cwo06/invitation.htm 

There is no fee for abstract submission.

Best,

John Orcutt
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