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SOLAS Email Bulletin No.3
* SOLAS SCIENCE PLAN AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY COMPLETED After undergoing its final review, the SOLAS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy (SP & IS) is now complete. Written by over 30 scientists, the Plan outlines the scientific scope of SOLAS and the major issues that need to be resolved over the next 10 years of physical and biogeochemical research into the ocean-atmosphere system. It provides a starting point for the implementation of this science and is intended to act as a jumping off point for the work of the SOLAS Implementation Groups. The document can be downloaded from http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/SPIS/SPIS1.html

The Plan is currently being printed and SOLAS will provide a free hard copy of the SP & IS to anyone who requests one. Order your copy at http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/SPIS/reserve.html

* SOLAS INTERNATIONAL PROJECT OFFICE EXECUTIVE OFFICER
In the next few weeks this position will be advertised. To receive a copy of the advert and further details of the post as soon as they become available, email solas@uea.ac.uk.

* SCIENCE HIGHLIGHT Work by the French FLAMENCO2 project shows that the Southern Ocean may not be acting as a permanent source or sink for CO2. Read more at http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/scihigh/scihigh.html

* OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE SOLAS Science 2004, the first conference at which the results of SOLAS will be presented will run from 13-16th Oct 2004, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. You can find out more about the conference at http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/ss04/. Please note that this website is being updated regularly.

* IMPLEMENTATION GROUPS
The membership of Implementation Group 3 has been confirmed as have the chairs of each Group. IMP 3 held its first meeting in November and is producing a detailed Implementation Plan for SOLAS Activities relating to the air-sea flux of radiatively-active gases. More at http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/org/imps.html

* DATA MANAGEMENT The SOLAS Data Management Task Team has begun work. You can read about the challenges ahead at http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/org/DMTT.html

* UPCOMING EVENTS Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics: Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, PORSEC-2004 (the biennial Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference, and a SCOR symposium on a high CO2 world... more at http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/meetings.html

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