SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
57th EASTERN SNOW CONFERENCE
Syracuse, New York 17-19 May 2000
"Snow and Ice: Properties, Processes, Problems & Prospects"
Scientific Program:
This year’s ESC promises to be an interesting meeting, with international participation of authors presenting oral and poster papers on a wide range of snow-and-ice-related topics. The preliminary program is attached, and an updated version of the program is maintained on the ESC web site at http://www1.tor.ec.gc.ca/CRYSYS/esc/. Guidelines for presenters and for the preparation of papers for the ESC Proceedings are also provided on the web site. For the ESC proceedings, the review process is now optional. Remember to bring four copies of your paper with you to the meeting if you would like to have your paper reviewed, and two copies if you do not desire a review. Please give your paper to the session chair who will collect the proceedings papers and coordinate the review for the papers in his/her session. Authors who wish their papers considered for publication in the journal Hydrological Processes need to go through the journal peer-review process; those authors should contact the editors directly (Janet Hardy jhardy@crrel.usace.army.mil or John Pomeroy John.Pomeroy@aber.ac.uk ).
Conference Registration:
The registration desk will open on Wednesday, May 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the Holiday Inn Syracuse/Liverpool convention center lobby. The evening registration will be held in conjunction with an icebreaker reception. The registration desk will also be open beginning at 7:45 a.m. on Thursday morning.
The pre-conference registration fee is $150 (US) or $220 (C) if payment is received by May 7, 2000. Please pay by U.S. or Canadian check or money order, made payable to the Eastern Snow Conference, and mail to:
Miles EcclestoneThe registration fee for payment at the meeting is $175. (US) or $260. (C). The student registration fee is $60. (US) or $90. (C). Banquet tickets can be purchased for $25. (US) or $35. (C) each. Registration includes: a one-year membership in ESC, conference attendance, copy of conference proceedings, coffee breaks, Icebreaker reception, ESC Breakfast, and the ESC Banquet.
Location:
The meeting will take place in the heart of New York State at the Holiday Inn Syracuse/Liverpool, 441 Electronics Parkway, Syracuse, N.Y., phone: 315-457-1122, fax: 315-451-0675. The hotel is a full-service hotel and conference center, with indoor pool, fitness facility, and business center; the web site for the hotel is: http://www.basshotels.com/holiday-inn?_franchisee=SYRLP
Accomodations:
A block of rooms has been reserved at a special conference rate of $ 70. (US) for single rooms and $80. (US) for double rooms. Don’t forget to mention the Eastern Snow Conference to get this room rate.
Please reserve your room BEFORE 17 April 2000 by calling
1-315-457-1122
Food and drink:
Registration will include the "Icebreaker Reception" on Wednesday (17 May) evening (19:00 – 22:00) and the "ESC Breakfast" on Thursday (18 May) morning (7:00 – 8:00). A pre-banquet cash bar will be available from 18:00 – 19:00 with a complimentary drink. The banquet, the cost of which is covered under the registration fee (except for student registrations), will be at 19:00 on Thursday. Participants are responsible for all other meals, which can be obtained at the hotel or at any of several eating establishments close to the hotel.
The ESC 2000 Team:
Dorothy Hall - ESC PresidentWednesday, 17 May 2000
18:30 Ice breaker, registration, and poster setup
19:30 ESC executive pre-conference meeting
Thursday, 18 May 2000
07:00 - 07:45 ESC Breakfast
08:00 Welcome, announcements, business meeting
Session I: Glacier & Snowpack Runoff
08:30 Climatic variation and runoff from an Alpine glacier - David N. Collins
08:50 Effects of asynchronous snowmelt on flushing of dissolved organic carbon: a mixing model approach - E.W. Boyer, E.W, G M Hornberger, K E Bencala, and D M McKnight
09:10 Winter stemflow leachate dynamics from deciduous canopy trees in relation to precipitation event characteristics - Delphis F. Levia, Jr.
09:30 Evaluating the Effect of Spatially and Temporally Varying Recharge Flux and d18O on Hydrograph Separation during Snowmelt - K. N. Hjerdt, R. Melloh, S. Taylor, J. Shanley, C. Kendall, J. J. McDonnell
09:50 2-minute poster presentations
10:15 coffee break
Session II: Snow & Ice Processes
10:40 Taxonomy and biophysical properties of cryophilic microalgae and their environmental factors in North-West Spitsbergen, Svalbard - Thomas Leya, Torsten Müller & Günter Fuhr
11:00 The Chemical dynamics of a snow cover on an Arctic Ice Cap: atmosphere-snow exchange and in situ processes - H.G. Jones and M. Duchesnau
11:20 Permeability of ice layers in a natural snowpack - M.Albert, F. Perron
11:40 Incorporating Effects of Forest Litter in a Snow Process Model - J.P Hardy, R. Melloh, P.Robinson, R. Jordan
12:00 Sensitivity of selected freezing rain models to meteorological data - Pierre McComber
12:20 lunch
Session III: Remote sensing of snow & ice
13:30 Development of a Prototype Snow Albedo Algorithm for the NASA MODIS Instrument - Andrew Klein
13:50 Early Analysis of the EOS MODIS Snow Cover Data Products - George Riggs, Dorothy K. Hall
14:10 Prospects for the Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) - Bruce H. Ramsay and David A. Robinson
14:30 Remote sensing of fractional snow cover using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data - J.S. Barton, D.K. Hall, G.A. Riggs
14:40 coffee break & poster viewing
Session IV: Extreme events
15:30 Geography of Blizzards in the Conterminous United States, 1959-1999 - Robert M. Schwartz
15:50 The National Climate Extremes Committee's Evaluation of the Reported 1,140 inch national 1998-99 seasonal snowfall record at the Mount Baker, Washington Ski Area - Robert J. Leffler and Andrew Horvitz
16:00 Summer snowpack variations with altitude on Mt. Baker, Washington 1990-1999, a comparison with record 1998-99 snowfall - Mauri S. Pelto
16:20 The role of deformation in focusing the heavy snowfall gradient in the 13-14 March 1999 Missouri snow event - P.S. Market, M. Sutton, D. Gaede, A. Foster2 D. Cissell, C. Halcomb, D. Boehmer, A. Kunz, N. Mikulas, A. Oehl, B. Oravetz, S. Thompson.
16:40 adjourn
18:00 Happy Hour
19:00 Banquet
Friday, 19 May 2000
07:30 Executive meeting
Session V: Snow variability & distributed modeling
08:30 Winter Season Variability in North American Prairie SWE Distribution and Atmospheric Circulation - C. Derksen, E. LeDrew, A. Walker, and B. Goodison
08:50 Variation in Snowmelt on Tundra Hillslopes - J.W. Pomeroy, B. Toth, D.M. Gray, R.H.L. Essery, R. Granger, N. Hedstrom
09:10 Patterns and Trends in Snowpack Water Equivalent in northern Vermont, 1960-2000 - James B. Shanley, Jon C. Denner, and Darryl Calkins
09:30 Validation of a Snowmelt Distribution Technique at Sleeper’s River Research Watershed - Rae Melloh
09:50 Snow Modeling for the Comprehensive Study on the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Basins - S.F. Daly, R. Davis, T. Pangburn, R. Affleck, T. Baldwin, E. Bryant, J. Hardy, E. Ochs, S. Taylor
10:10 coffee break
Session VI: Climate modeling & climate effects
10:40 Seasonal Snow Cover Monitoring in Canada - An Assessment of Canadian Contributions for Global Climate Monitoring - Ross D. Brown, Anne E. Walker and Barry E. Goodison
11:00 Assessing Snow Simulations of Land-Surface Schemes Used in Atmospheric Models - C. Adam Schlosser
11:20 Modeling Issues of Snow and Land-Ice in a Global Climate Model - C. Adam Schlosser, Paul A. Dirmeyer, and Larry Marx
11:40 Regional Snowfall Distributions Associated with ENSO - Shawn R. Smith and James J. O'Brien
12:00 adjourn
Poster session (Thursday, 18 May & Friday, 19 May)
Development of a method to monitor soil freezing in the La Grande River watershed using SSM/I and RADARSAT data - Catherine Lagacé and Monique Bernier
The impact of sampling density on glacier mass balance determination - Mauri S. Pelto
Three ice-related data series from high Arctic, Canada - Miles Ecclestone, Peter Adams and Graham Cogley
Albedo and Snow Properties during Ablation in a Sub-arctic Alpine Environment - Guillaume Fortin, John Pomeroy, and Monique Bernier
Representation of Forest Cover in a Physically Based Snowmelt Model, Phase II - Robert Ake Hellstrom
Instrumentation testing for real-time measurement of liquid equivalent snowfall on Mt Washington - Jeff Cole
A Review of Techniques for Parameterizing Subgrid-Scale Heterogeneity - Mary Albert
The effect of Wide Spectrum and blue light preacclimation on sexual reproduction in the green snow alga, Chloromonas sp.-D (Chlorophyceae, Volvocales), using different photoperiods - Michael D. Ragan, Haldre S. Rogers, Amy M. Marcarelli, Benjamin M. Petre, Michael D. Ungerer, Joseph M. Barnes and Ronald. W. Hoham
The transformation of cells from oblong to spherical in the life cycle of the green snow alga, Chloromonas sp.-D (Chlorophyceae, Volvocales) - Amy M. Marcarelli, Haldre S. Rogers, Michael D. Ragan, Joseph M. Barnes, Michael D. Ungerer, Benjamin M. Petre and Ronald W. Hoham
The phylogenetic affinities of cold tolerant species of the green algae, Chloromonas and Chlamydomonas (Chlorophyceae, Volvocales): an analysis using 18S rDNA and the ITS1 and ITS2 regions - Tomas A. Bonome, James H. Leebens-Mack and Ronald W. Hoham