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Workshop on Remote Sensing of Planetary Ices:
Earth and other Solid Bodies


June 11-13, 1997
Flagstaff, Arizona
Global view of Ganymede Ice Stream Image Mars North Pole Ross Ice Shelf
Goal: The primary goal of the workshop was to bring together the terrestrial and planetary science communities whose focus is remotely sensed surface ice research. The workshop addressed issues such as the current problems and objectives in surface ice studies, methods and technologies currently employed, and future requirements for instrumentation, field studies, supporting laboratory measurements and theoretical modelling. The workshop was intended as an initial step to foster subsequent collaboration and cooperation between the two communities for the benefit and advancement of both. Approximately 90 people attended and benefitted from the strong interdisciplinary communication and the chance to interact with a diverse group of individuals with wide areas of expertise.

A final program with some abstracts is still on line.

A summary of the Workshop appeared in EOS, Transactions of the AGU

SPECIAL ISSUE OF JGR PLANETS ON REMOTE SENSING OF ICES

Our goal in putting together the special issue is to bring together in one place papers dealing with the physics of remote sensing of ices and the ways in which it is applied. On the Earth, we have the advantage of our ability to investigate the field areas in person, and the planetary community can take advantage of that expertise. Similarly, the planetary applications are much broader in terms of composition of the ices and the applicable temperature range, and these different boundary conditions can feed back into our terrestrial understandings.

Workshop Conveners
Wendy Calvin and Hugh Kieffer, U. S. Geological Survey,
Frank Carsey, JPL, Anne Nolin, NSIDC,

Scientific Organizing Committee: Bob Brown University of Arizona; Bonnie Buratti Jet Propulsion Lab; Bryan Butler National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Roger Clark U. S. Geological Survey; Jeff Dozier University of California - Santa Barbara; Tony England University of Michigan; Mark Fahnestock NASA-Goddard; Ken Herkenhoff Jet Propulsion Lab; Bruce Jakosky University of Colorado; Ken Jezek Ohio State University; Baerbel Lucchitta U. S. Geological Survey; Steve Ostro Jet Propulsion Lab; Bob Pappalardo Brown University; Drew Rothrock University of Washington; Konrad Steffen University of Colorado; Dale Winebrenner University of Washington

Sponsors: NASA, USGS, Lowell Observatory, International Glaciological Society (IGS), Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)

Last updated: March 27, 2001