Meeting Announcement:
Dear Colleague,The LAPCOD 2009 meeting will take place in La Londe-les-Maures, Cote d'Azur, France (near Toulon), during September 7-11, 2009 (Monday-Friday).
The purpose of the LAPCOD meeting is to conduct a review of recent works on Lagrangian dynamics and transport. They include results from freely drifting instruments (strictly Lagrangian) as well as results from other types of measurements such as autonomous vehicles, remote sensing satellites and VHF radars. The focus is on new observations, theories and applications with the goal of accelerating future development in predictability and multi-disciplinary aspects, by bringing together different research communities and different types of analysis. Workshop invitees will include experimentalists and theoreticians involved in data analysis and model development, as well as predictability experts (not necessarily all oceanographers), biologists, meteorologists and ecologists using Lagrangian instruments and approaches. Lagrangian predictability is of great importance for practical application in transport and environmental problems, and we expect that the workshop will facilitate its development through exchanges and collaborations.
We anticipate a total workshop attendance of 50-100 people. The workshop will be structured to encourage collaborations and exchanges of ideas, with 12 minute discussion talks in the morning and poster sessions in the afternoon. Participants are encouraged to present both a short talk and a poster.
Mon: Session A Tue: Session B & C Wed: A day of interactions via a group social activity. Thu: Session C & D Fri: Session E The 5 sessions are
We would also appreciate some talks/posters on a historical review of Lagrangian instruments, turbulent mixing, nonlinear analysis and what have we learned about the mean ocean state and its variability from measurements.
Feel free to send this announcement to colleagues.
Sincerely,
Anne Molcard University of Toulon Annalisa Griffa Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche (CNR/ISMAR), La Spezia, Italy RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA Arthur Mariano RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA Tamay Özgökmen RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA Enrico Zambianchi "Parthenope" University, Napoli, Italy Edward Ryan RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA