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Registration Deadline: 6 June 2008

Dalton Ellis Hall, University of Manchester

Eligibility: Any UK-based Ph.D student.

A three-day conference for UK-based Ph.D students of atmospheric and oceanic sciences to promote current research, assist career development, and encourage interaction across related disciplines.

Conference details

The conference brings together much of the UK Ph.D student community studying topics in meteorology, atmospheric, and oceanic sciences. This is an opportunity to present and discuss your work in an informal environment - i.e. without any lecturers present!

We would like you to encourange your friends to attend, but don't be afraid to attend if you're the only one from your institution involved in atmospheric or ocean sciences - the student community will make you feel welcome! There will be icebreakers so that everyone can get to know each other, and a conference dinner.

Invited speakers

There will also be talks by invited speakers from business and academia on potential career paths (names tbc).

Location

The conference will be at Dalton Ellis Hall, University of Manchester. You can have a look at the conference facilities here. Accommodation will be in ensuite rooms only a minute or so walk away from the conference facilities, and dining facilities are also within a few minutes walk.

Manchester is easily served by rail - Manchester Piccadilly station is the most convenient. Dalton Ellis Hall can then be reached by bus or on foot, using this map and directions.

Comments from delegates about last year's conference:

"The student conference is a relatively informal forum in which to present research, as well as to practice asking and answering questions about that research. Informal and friendly but definitely challenging!"

"I was also able to attend [the conference] in 2006, and the overlap of delegates between the two years was significant; it was interesting to see how the work of those who had been there the previous year had progressed during the intervening period."

"A student-only conference provides the valuable opportunity to give a presentation and discuss research in an environment less intimidating than a general conference. It was an exciting opportunity to discover what research is taking place at other institutions, through a number of interesting talks and posters as well as informal discussions."

"It is an excellent forum for young scientists to get together and share ideas and practice presentational skills and science communication."

All comments taken from here.

Poster

A poster advertising the conference can be found here - please put it up in your department!

Instructions for Presenters

Talk Guidelines

Talks should last no more than 12 minutes, with 2/3 minutes for questions. They should be made available for upload upon registration onto the PC, either by USB hard-disks or by CD. Please back up all you work and save all the images which are incorporated into your presentation separately. Kathy Maxwell will be available for IT assistance in presentation upload during the period of the conference.

Poster Guidelines

Posters will be on display throughout the conference, and presenters will be required to stand with their poster during a special session so that they can be approached for questions. Poster boards are 2m high and 1m wide. Therefore the maximum poster size is A0 ( 841mm X 1189 mm) Portrait style. The poster session will take place in the Gallery, and we ask that all delegates attach their posters to the display boards as soon as possible after registration on Wednesday to allow for general viewing. The poster session is scheduled to take place between 15.30 and 17.00 on Thursday, during which time we ask all poster presenters to stand next to their poster. All posters must be removed from the display boards by 13:00 on Friday at the latest. Poster remaining after this will be removed and destroyed.

Session Programme

The 2008 conference programme covers the following areas of meteorology and oceanography:

• Climate: past, present and future - Chairs: Simon Busby, Jenny Barnes
• Ocean sciences - Chair: Nicola Howe
• Weather and small scale features - Chair: Victoria Sinclair
• Earth observations - Chair: Shona Mackie
• Atmospheric composition - Chair: Luke Knowles
• Data assimilation and modelling - Chair: Roland Young
• Poster Session - Chair: Victoria Sinclair (also programme committee chair)