MEETINGS AND PUBLICATIONS

For further information on upcoming meetings, workshops and conferences please consult the

GTOS website www.fao.org/gtos/Resmeeting.html and the
GOFC-GOLD website www.fao.org/gtos/gofc-gold/events.html.

SELECTION OF MEETINGS IN 2004
Spring	GLCN Training Workshop	Latin America
Spring	TCO data access workshop	Prague, Czech Republic
April	GTOS Coastal Implementation Plan Workshop	Washington DC, USA
March	GOFC-GOLD Global Geostationary Fire Monitoring Applications Workshop	Darmstadt, Germany
26 - 28 May	IGOS 11th Partners meeting	Rome, Italy
TBA	GOFC-GOLD Land Cover Workshop on linking in situ and remote sensing	St. Petersburg, Russia
TBA	GOFC-GOLD Executive Committee meeting	Edmonton, Canada

2003 MEETINGS
16 - 18 Dec.	TOPC panel meeting	Rome, Italy
13 Dec.	TCO Panel meeting	San Francisco, USA
2 - 4 Dec.	GTOS Biodiversity workshop	Berlin, Germany
1 - 6 Dec.	Asia Cover/GLCN training workshop	Bangkok, Thailand
10 - 14 Nov.	Africa Sahel GLCN training workshop	Dakar, Senegal
19 - 22 Oct.	GTOS Coastal Implementation Plan Workshop	La Selva, Costa Rica
7 - 9 Oct.	GOSIC review	Lewes, USA
7 Oct.	GOFC-GOLD Fire Implementation Team Meeting	Sydney, Australia
9 - 13 Sep.	GOFC-GOLD Forest Fire Management workshop	Khabarovsk, Russia
17 - 23 Aug.	4th Meeting of Southern Africa Fire Network (SAFNET)	Kruger National Park, South Africa
3 - 6 June	TCO/GCP Improved quantification of global carbon cycle fluxes	Sheffield, UK
16 - 18 March	GOFC-GOLD Executive Committee Meeting	Ispra, Italy
24 - 27 March	COOP V	Mazatlan, Mexico
16 - 18 March	GOFC-GOLD Executive Committee Meeting	Ispra, Italy
3 - 6 March	Meeting of the GTOS Coastal panel	Ispra, Italy
21 - 22 Feb.	ICSU Assessment meeting	Paris, France
15 - 16 Jan.	IGOS Coastal Theme Development Workshop	Washington, DC, USA

2002 MEETINGS
26 - 31 Oct.	CEE TCO data warehouse building workshop	Prague, Czech Republic
16 - 18 Oct.	GTOS coastal workshop	Greenville, North Carolina, USA
24 - 27 Sep.	Fourth session of COOP	Cape Town, South Africa
25 - 31 Aug.	3rd European Conference on Restoration Ecology	Budapest, Hungary
29 July - 1 Aug.	Third meeting of the GOFC-GOLD Southern Africa Fire network (SAFNET)	Gaborone, Botswana
7 - 10 July	2nd LBA Science Conference	Manaus, Brazil
25 - 27 June	TOPC meeting	Ispra, Italy
4 - 6 June	Southern Africa data/metadata policy workshop	Pretoria, South Africa
4 - 6 June	CEE Knowledgeware Training Workshop	Budapest, Hungary
30 - 31 May	7th G3OS sponsors meeting and IGOS-P meeting	Paris, France
6 - 7 May	FAO/UNEP Global land cover changes	Florence, Italy
1 - 3 May	GOOS steering committee meeting,	Paris, France
15 - 19 April	GCOS steering committee	Farnham, UK
11 - 13 Feb.	GOFC Land Cover Implementation Team Meeting	Toulouse, France
23 - 25 Jan.	Forest-related definitions	Rome, Italy
22 - 23 Jan.	TOPC meeting	Rome, Italy

PUBLICATIONS
GTOS 34	GTOS Biennial report 2002 - 2003
GTOS 33	GTN-H Coordination Panel Meeting report. Toronto, Canada. 21 - 22 November 2002, GCOS 85, GTOS 33.
GTOS 32	HWRP/GCOS/GTOS Expert Meeting on Hydrological Data for Global Studies report, Toronto, Canada. 18 - 20 November 2002, GCOS 84, GTOS 32.
GTOS 31	TCO: The Frascati report on in situ carbon data and information. November 2002.
GTOS 30	GTOS Biennial report 2000 - 2001
GTOS 29	GCOS/GTOS/HWRP Expert Meeting on the Implementation of a Global Terrestrial Network - Hydrology (GTN-H), GTOS 29, GCOS 71 Koblenz, Germany. June 2001.
GTOS-28	Global Change and Mountain Regions, The Mountain Research Initiative IGBP 49, GTOS 28, IHDP. 13. January 2001
GTOS-27	Terrestrial Data Management and Accessibility Workshop in Central and Eastern Europe, Vàcràtòt, Hungary. 30 October - 4 November 2000
GTOS-26	GCOS/GTOS/HWRP Establishment of a Global Hydrological Observation Network for Climate, Geisenheim, Germany. 26 - 30 June 2000
GTOS-25	IGOS-P Carbon Cycle Observation Theme: Terrestrial and Atmospheric Components. October 2000 (revised February 2001)
GTOS-24	GTOS Biennial report. 1998 - 1999
GTOS-23	Terrestrial Carbon Observation, Synthesis Workshop Ottawa, Canada. 8 - 11 February 2000
GTOS-22	GTOS/GCOS Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate, fifth session. Birmingham, UK. 27 - 30 July 1999
GTOS-21	GTOS Regional Implementation Plan for Southern Africa. February 2001
GTOS-20	Regional Implementation Plan for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). February 2000
GTOS-19	GTOS Steering Committee, second session. Santander, Spain, 15 - 19 June 1998
GTOS-18	GTOS Data and Information Management Plan. October 1998
GTOS-17	GTOS Implementation Plan. December 1998
GTOS-16	Report of the G3OS, Joint Data and Information Management Panel, fourth session. Honolulu, USA, 28 May - 1 April 1998
GTOS-15	GTOS/GCOS Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate, fourth session. Corvallis, USA, 26 - 29 May 1998
GTOS-14	GTOS Annual Report -1997. December 1997
GTOS-13	GHOST - Global Hierarchical Observing Strategy. June 1997
GTOS-12	GCOS/GTOS Plan for Terrestrial Climate-related Observations, version 2.0. June 1997
GTOS-11	GCOS/GOOS/GTOS Joint Data and Information Management Panel (JDIMP), third session, Tokyo, Japan. 15 - 18 July 1997
GTOS-10	Meeting of Experts on Ecological Networks. Guernica, Spain, 17 - 20 June 1997
GTOS-9	Global Observing Systems Space Panel (GOSSP), third session. Paris, France, 27 - 30 May 1997
GTOS-8	GTOS Coordination and Implementation meeting. Rome, Italy, 12 - 15 May 1997
GTOS-7	GTOS and the Conventions. October 1996 (Updated April 1997)
GTOS-6	First meeting of the GTOS Steering Committee, final session Rome, Italy. 2 - 5 December 1996
GTOS-5	Global Observing Systems Space Panel, second session Geneva, Switzerland. 16 - 18 October 1996
GTOS-4	In Situ Observations for the Global Observing Systems Geneva, Switzerland. 10 - 13 September 1996
GTOS-3	Planning Group Report -"GTOS: Turning a sound concept into a practical reality". June 1996
GTOS-2	Expert Meeting on Hydrological Data for Global Observing Systems Geneva, Switzerland. 29 April - 1 May 1996
GTOS-1	GCOS/GTOS Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate, third session Cape Town, South Africa. 19 - 22 March 1996
All publications are available on request from the GTOS Secretariat or can be downloaded from the GTOS web site: www.fao.org/gtos/pubs.html.

STEERING COMMITTEE

Chair
Robert Scholes

Agency Representatives
Salvatore Arico
Division of Ecological Sciences
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Kenneth Davidson
Director, World Climate Programme
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Norberto Fernandez
Chief, Early Warning and Observing System Branch
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Thomas Rosswall
Executive Director
International Council for Science (ICSU)

Jeff Tshirley
Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Service
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Panel Chairs
John Townshend
Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD)
Department of Geography, University of Maryland

Shaun Quegan
Terrestrial Carbon Observation (TCO)
Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics, University of Sheffield

Alan Belward
Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate (TOPC)
Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Secretariat
John Latham, Programme Director
Paul Reichert, Remote Sensing Officer
Géraud Servin, Environment Officer
Reuben Sessa, Programme Officer
Stephanie Vertecchi, Secretary

Volunteers
Alexandra Fleming
Steffen Gruenler
Aurélien Letourneau

Special thanks to:

Rebeca Andarias de Prado, Mari Bullock, Josef Cihlar, Rhonda Davis, Helen De Beer, Adhemar Fontes, Thomas Hofer, Karl Morteo, Markus Reichstein, Anne Ricchiuti, Carol Saynor, Chris Schmullius, Anatoly Shvidenko, Rebeka Szabó, Lesley Tench-Mattioni, Katalin Torok, and many others who have assisted in the GTOS programme.