Please forward to interested parties and colleagues. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2-7 April 2006 http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/ Deadline for support applications : 9 December 2005 Deadline for receipt of abstracts : 13 January 2006 Deadline for pre-registration : 10 March 2006 Please note the following topical sessions are planned for the Unsaturated Zone (UZ) in the HS (Hydrological Sciences) Division: * HS33 Subsurface flow, solute transport, end energy processes: concepts, modelling, and observations (co-listed in BG, SSS & SSP) * HS34 Subsurface assessment and characterisation: physical, chemical, biological, and isotopic tools (co-listed in BG & SSS) * HS40/SSS7 Monitoring and modelling for soil and ecohydrological processes across space-time scales (co-organized with SSS) * HS41/SSS8 Hydrogeophysics - methods to identify properties and monitor processes governing water flow and solute transport in groundwater and vadose zones (co-organized by SSS) * HS42/SSS9 Effective processes and parameter identification in the vadose zone (co-organized with SSS) * HS43/SSS10 Unsaturated zone flow and transport processes: from science to soil and water management (co-organized with SSS) * HS44/SSS11 Coupled hydrological, biological and chemical processes in the unsaturated zone (co-organized with SSS) (co-listed in BG) Particular Groundwater sessions (GW) are also posted: * HS32 Partial differential equations of hydrology (co-listed in NP) * HS35 Aquifer management and remediation * HS36 Hydrogeology of fissured and karstic aquifers (co-listed in SSP) All interested parties are warmly encouraged to participate ! The EGU invites all geoscientists to participate in its third annual Assembly, submit contributions to the topical sessions and share their research with colleagues and friends. trevor elliot (Chair, Technical Committee for the Unsaturated Zone - TC-UZ) ----------------------------------------- Dr. Trevor Elliot, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Engineering, Course Coordinator, PgDip/MSc Environmental Engineering programme, Academic Co-ordinator, EERC Environmental Tracers Laboratory (ETL), Environmental Engineering Reseach Centre (EERC), School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Room 1020, David Keir Building (DKB), Stranmillis Road, Belfast. BT9 5AG. Northern Ireland. Tel. +44 (0)28 90 974736 (my office, internal x4736) OR +44 (0)28 90 975647 (ETL, internal x5647); OR +44 (0)28 90 974006 (general office, internal x4006) Fax. +44 (0)28 90 663754; E-mail. [log in to unmask]; http://www.qub.ac.uk/civeng/ or (personal webpage) http://www.prb-net.qub.ac.uk/eerg/People/Academic_staff/telliot/telliot.htm