Welcome to the SCAR-ICESTAR 2008 virtual meeting site.

Schedules Now Available Online

• Final programme of the Open Science Conference

• Schedule for Plenary Session (July 8th)

• Final schedule for SCAR 2008 Business meetings and pre-conference workshops

ICESTAR Business Meeting

The ICESTAR business meeting will be held on 06 July 2008 in the afternoon starting at 14:00. The meeting will be in the "Conference Meeting Room A1. Please note that for computer presentation in the hotel you must not use your own laptop but use PC provided by organisers. So, you must have your presentation on a memory stick.

• Welcome
• ICESTAR Progress Report and Future Directions (Al Weatherwax, Siena College & Kirsti Kauristie, FMI)
• Progress report from China (Prof. Ruiyuan Liu, Polar Research Institute of China)
• Progress report from Norway (Prof. N. Østgaard, Bergen)
• UAMPY: Upper Atmosphere Monitoring for Polar Year (Lucilla Alfonsi, INGV, Italy)
  • Probing the high latitude ionosphere from ground-based observations: the state of current knowledge and capabilities during IPY (2007-2009), Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 2008