The 2012 Alaska Weather Symposium will be held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on March 13 and 14.  The deadline for presentation and/or poster abstracts is Tuesday, January 24.  

All abstracts relating to weather and climate in Alaska are welcome. Some anticipated areas of focus are:

• Air quality
• Data assimilation
• High resolution modeling in complex terrain
• Observations/monitoring challenges
• Weather-scale sea ice

The symposium is being sponsored by:

• Alaska Region, NOAA National Weather Service
• Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (UAF)
• Department of Atmospheric Sciences (College of Natural Science and Mathematics, UAF)
• Geophysical Institute (UAF)
• International Arctic Research Center (UAF)

For more information on the symposium, visit the ARSC website here.