The Geomicrobiology of Glacial Environments
Workshop
to be held on October
8-9, 2009
at the University of Bristol, UK
Organized
by the Brussels Glaciology Lab (BEL) and
the Bristol Glaciology Center (UK)
Co-funded
by the British
Council, FNRS (Belgian National Science Foundation)
and the Communauté Française
de Belgique Wallonie Bruxelles
This event is co-organized by the
Laboratoire de
Glaciologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles
(BEL) and the Bristol Glaciology
Center, University of Bristol (UK),
and is co-funded by the British
Council, FNRS
(Belgian National Science Foundation) and
the Communauté Française
de Belgique Wallonie Bruxelles.
The aim of
this international funding partnership is to "enable early-stage
and talented postdoctoral researchers from both countries
to meet, exchange ideas and engage in scientific research collaboration".
The workshop will take place at the School of Geographical Sciences,
University of Bristol, UK, on 8th and
9th October 2009.
For a map of the Bristol Glaciology Center, click
on this.
For the postal address, click here.
Should you arrive in Bristol
from the train station, you can use this map [go].
The meeting
rooms where the workshop will take place are as follows:
- Thursday 8th October 2009:
9:30AM-2PM @ Hepple Lecture Theatre, then 2PM -
6PM @ New Seminar Room and LowTex facilities.
- Friday 9th October 2009:
@ Hepple all day.
These meeting places are all
located at the Geography Dpt from the University of Bristol, and
can be found either on this map [go]
or on
this website [go] (look after #27
to get to the Geography Dpt).
Participation is open to everyone, although
numbers may be restricted because of limitations on
the size of the meeting facilities.
For planning
purposes, registration is required. To confirm your
participation, please send an e-mail to denis.samyn@geo.uu.se
as soon as possible, latest on September 15, 2009.
Please
also send the title and abstract of your presentation,
with personal affiliations and contact details.
There will be a small fee for drinks and snacks between sessions. This fee will be of 10£ for PhD students, and 15£ for the others, and will be charged upon arrival at the Bristol Glaciology Center.
About 25 researchers
from UK and Belgium will participate to this
workshop and give a talk, among whom leading scientists
from the fields of glaciology and geomicrobiology.
A detailed list of participants and abstracts can be found
here [go].
The facilities at the venue have a Microsoft
Windows operated computer connected to a
projector. Please check that your presentation is working
properly before your talk.
Preferred
formats for your presentation are .ppt and .pdf files.
People giving
a talk are kindly requested to upload their presentation on the
main computer desktop (ask the chair in charge) as early as possible,
otherwise during the teabreak before the talk.
Poster presentations are welcome
as well. Please let us know well ahead if you are
planning to display one. The stands are standard A0
size.
People who choose a poster session
will be allowed to briefly introduce their work orally (5 min. max)
before their poster, so that the whole participant group can be
aware of their work. Annex support material like e.g. a laptop with
a short presentation can also be used aside their poster to illustrate
their field of research.
