Open invitation to a one-day meeting - please feel free to 
circulate to colleagues

The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme 
(IGBP) and the UK: Contributions, Benefits, and the Way 
Forward

organised by the Royal Society's  UK IGBP National 
Committee

The meeting will be held on Friday 04 June 1999, in the 
Royal Society's Wellcome Lecture Hall, 
6 Carlton House Terrace, London

Meeting Objectives
	
1) To promote awareness amongst UK scientists and 
policy makers of the value of the IGBP to the UK
2) To inform about how the UK already contributes to 
and benefits from participation
3) To foster more UK involvement in the programme

Meeting Agenda

10.00 Coffee - complementary

10.25 Introduction and Welcome
Professor Chris Rapley, British Antarctic Survey

10.30 Keynote Address
Professor Dr Paul Crutzen, Max Planck Institute for 
Chemistry, Mainz


11.30 Overview of the International 
Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
(IGBP) Dr Will Steffen, IGBP 

12.00 UK and Past Global Changes (PAGES)
Dr Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey

12.40 Lunch (participants will need to make their own
arrangements)		

14.00 UK and Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS)
Dr Mike Fasham, Southampton Oceanography Centre 

14.40 UK and International Global Atmospheric 
Chemistry Project (IGAC)
Professor Stuart Penkett, University of East Anglia 

15.20 UK and Global Change in Terrestrial Ecosystems 
(GCTE) Professor Peter Gregory, University of Reading

16.00 Tea - complementary	
		
16.30 Panel Session on "Way Forward", 
Chaired by Professor Peter Liss, University of East Anglia
Panel Members:  Professor Sir John Krebs, Natural 
Environment Research Council (NERC)
Dr David Fisk, Department of Environment, Transport 
and the Regions (DETR)
Professor Brian Hoskins, University of Reading

18:00 Close

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This one-day meeting will provide participants with an 
excellent overview of IGBP and how the UK contributes 
to and benefits from the programme. 

The Keynote Speaker Professor Dr Paul Crutzen was the 
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his 
work on the stratospheric ozone hole and the role of 
biogeochemical processes in atmospheric chemistry.

The meeting will also provide a rare opportunity to listen 
to and question some of the most distinguished and 
influential people in the UK's global environmental change 
arena.

There is no charge for attending the meeting but places are 
limited and likely to be in high demand, it is therefore 
imperative that you register your wish to attend as soon as 
possible. 

To register please send (very preferably by e-mail) your 
name,
affiliation, address, and e-mail to:

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Dr Ian C Simpson
Environmental Change Network
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Windermere Road
Grange-over-Sands
Cumbria LA11 6JU






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