An "International Symposium on Physics, Chemistry, and Ecology of Seasonally Frozen Soils" will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska June 10-12, 1997. The symposium is jointly sponsored by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, the University of Alaska, and the Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory of the US Army.

The symposium will provide a forum for the exchange of information and ideas in the detection and prediction of physical and biological processes in seasonally frozen soils. Topics of specific interest are those related to the climatology, hydrology, physics, chemistry and biology of managed ecosystems in cold regions.

Abstracts are due by 1 April 1996. Further information or an announcement can be obtained by contacting:

Brenton Sharratt, USDA-ARS,
803 Iowa Avenue, Morris, MN  56267 USA
telephone: 612-589-3411
Internet: bsharratt@mail.mrsars.usda.gov

Jerry Radke, USDA-ARS,
NSTL, 2150 Pammel Drive, Ames, IA  50011 USA
telephone: 509-294-0213
Internet: jkradke@iastate.edu