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We still have tickets available for this seminar, and have reduced the price of tickets for students to 30 pounds. This really is a great opportunity to hear some world-class speakers, including Prof. Bruno Messerli (Past President of the IGU, RGS Gold Medal winner) and Prof. Wilfried Haeberli (Director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service). The seminar should be of particular interest to staff and students concerned with glaciology, hydrology, and environmental/climate change - I would be grateful if you could forward this message to relevant people. I also attach a poster, and would be very grateful if you could put it up. With many thanks in advance, Martin Price ***************** Summits of Learning: 150 Years of Mountaineering, Mountains, and Science Swiss Embassy, London, Tuesday 4 December 2007, 10.00-16.00 This public seminar is part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of The Alpine Club. Its aim is to celebrate how mountaineers and scientists have increased our knowledge of mountain regions since The Alpine Club was founded in 1857. Mountaineers - both British and foreign - have made many important contributions to our understanding of mountain environments and their people. Much of this research has had global significance, e.g., in medicine, glaciology and, more recently, in contributing to our understanding of climate change and its impacts. The international cast of speakers comes from Austria, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA. The introductory keynote will be by Ed Douglas, on 'Cathedrals or Laboratories? Mountains, Science, and the Alpine Club'. The topics of the following presentations will include climate change and its impacts on glaciers, rock walls and plants; changes in the Mount Everest region; the global role of mountains as 'water towers'; mountain medicine; and how mountain science has driven mountain policy. Speakers include Wilfried Haeberli (University of Zurich), Bruno Messerli and Rolf Weingartner (University of Berne), Harald Pauli (University of Vienna), Alton Byers (The Mountain Institute), and Jim Milledge. The seminar has been organised by Professor Martin Price, at the Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College-UHI. For further information, go to http://www.cms.uhi.ac.uk/conferences/ac150/ac150.htm Tickets (including lunch) are *30 for students, *40 for Alpine Club members, and *50 for others. They are available from Angela Paterson at the Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College - UHI, Crieff Road, Perth PH1 2NX; 01738-877761; [log in to unmask] *************** ******************************************** Prof. Martin Price Director, Centre for Mountain Studies Perth College UHI Millennium Institute Crieff Road Perth PH1 2NX, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1738-877217 Fax: +44 (0) 1738-877018 www.cms.uhi.ac.uk ****************************************** UHI Millennium Institute: 'Creating the University of the Highlands and Islands' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "UHI is partnership of colleges and research institutions working together to form a university of the Highlands and Islands. If your email contains a request for information that you feel may fall under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act please visit our FOI websites. For Perth College UHI at this URL http://www.perth.ac.uk/Freedom_of_Information/ For Inverness College UHI at this URL http://www.inverness.uhi.ac.uk/defaultpage121bc1.aspx?pageID=162 This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It is your responsibility to carry out virus and other such checks as you consider appropriate. " --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- Miss Maria Constantinou Secretary/Receptionist Department of Geography University of Cambridge Downing Place Cambridge CB2 3EN Tel: 01223 333399 Fax: 01223 333392 ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------