COST 723 Splinter Meeting,
EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly,
Nice, April 8, 2003

Minutes

1. It was discussed, how COST 723 should react to the general COST
   moratorium. In particular, the date of October 6-8 for the Opening
   Workshop has become uncertain due to the prolongation of the
   moratorium until September. S. Buehler explained the action taken
   jointly by the MC Chairs and handed out a draft of an MC Chair joint
   letter.

2. It was decided to shift the Opening Workshop to March 11-13,
   2004. J. Langen said that the availability of the facilities should
   be no problem in this time period.

   K. Kourtidis suggested that as an alternative the Workshop could
   also be held in parallel to the Quadrenial Ozone Symposium in June
   2004 in Greece. It was decided to keep this in mind as a backup
   plan, but to continue to aim at a Workshop at ESTEC as the
   preferred option.

3. It was confirmed that the workshop should last for 3 days, with 2
   days of open presentation, and 1 day of work within the WGs,
   followed by a joint session. In order to make best use of ETIX
   tickets, Thu, Fri, Sat would be the preferred days, however, it is
   unclear if meetings on Saturday are possible at ESTEC. --> AI to
   J. Langen to find out.

4. The WG Chairs are responsible to put together a workshop program
   for their WG, by collecting contribution from the WG members, and
   by approaching experts that are not (yet) WG members, but could give
   a desirable contribution.

5. We will wait with the public announcement of the workshop until the
   general COST situation has become more clear.

6. It was decided that the COST 723 website (http://www.cost723.org/)
   should be filled with more content, in particular:

   a) Members should send links that they want to appear on the page
      to sbuehler@uni-bremen.de.

   b) EGS contributions of COST 723 members should be collected on the
      website. --> AI to S. Buehler to implement.

Minutes written by S. Buehler, 17.04.2003.