[AO announcement] Call for Participation: NCAR Theme of Year on Geophysical Turbulence

[Jeffrey B Weiss]

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the announcement of  NCAR/ 
IMAGe Theme-of-The-Year on Geophysical Turbulent Phenomena (http:// 
www.image.ucar.edu/ThemeOfTheYear/2008/ ). We would be grateful if  
you circulate this announcement to colleagues, departments, and other  
interested parties.

The Theme-of-the-Year (TOY) for 2008 is designed to support the  
geophysical and mathematical communities in this effort through a  
series of workshops exploring turbulence from these different  
perspectives with the goal of increasing the interconnections among  
theory, computation and experiments. The final activity of this TOY  
is a summer school (partially funded through the NSF Collaborative  
Mathematics in the Geosciences Program) with the intent of bringing  
new researchers into this field and giving them a multidisciplinary  
perspective.

The first Workshop on Turbulent Theory and Modeling will be held on  
February 27th-February 29th.
The following website
http://www.image.ucar.edu/Workshops/TOY2008/focus1
is available for on-line submission of an abstract. Some funding is  
available to support attendance with special emphasis given to  
graduate students, young researchers and members of under-represented  
groups.