*REDIRECT NOTICE*

Dear SAFARI Participant,

As you may know, the official SAFARI 2000 web site (www.safari2000.org) has been non-operational in recent weeks due to technical problems. Those problems are being addressed, and the site will be back in service as soon as possible. We will notify you of its resumed operation at that time. In the meantime, we are redirecting site visitors to the original SAFARI home page at the University of Virginia (safari.gecp. virginia.edu). New SAFARI project developments will be posted at this site until the Wits site is back in service. We appreciate your patience during this transition.

If you have a project-related question, please contact Jaime Nickeson (jaime.nickeson @gsfc.nasa.gov or +1 301 286-3373).

Sincerely, The SAFARI 2000 Data Group
SAFARI 2000 is an international regional science initiative being developed for Southern Africa to explore, study and address linkages between land-atmosphere processes and the relationship of biogenic, pyrogenic or anthropogenic emissions and the consequences of their deposition to the functioning of the biogeophysical and biogeochemical systems of southern Africa. This initiative is being built around a number of on-going, already funded activities by NASA, the international community and African nations in the southern African region.

SAFARI 2000 Synthesis Workshop
Oct. 6-11, 2002
Charlottesville,   VA     USA

  Final Program Schedule and List of Abstracts
(in Adobe PDF format).

Please click HERE for a copy of the registration form, including the FAX number to which to send it, and a schedule of events. You may also download the form as an Adobe PDF file.

Deadline for regular registration is September 6, 2002. Registration forms submitted after the deadline will still be accomodated (as time permits) but for an additional $25 US fee.

The Objective of this conference is to take steps towards project synthesis by adding additional analysis to the work that is coming out in the Global Change Biology, Journal of Arid Environments, International Journal of Remote Sensing and the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres Special Issues.

Approximately 75% of the emphasis at this conference will be on the Science Synthesis sections with the remaining focus being on the Science for Policy Synthesis sections.

The Expected Product of the conference will be a workshop book similar to the books associated with past Chapman Conferences on Biomass Burning and Global Change.

Click Here for more information on the Conference, including:

  • Availability of travel funding and registration fee waivers for regional Southern African participants.
  • Call for abstracts (and where to send them).
  • Synthesis Chapters.
  • Travel info.

A list of proposed/submitted chapter titles and authors for the upcoming Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) special issue focusing on the research of the SAFARI 2000 project can be found HERE (as a PDF file). last updated: 25 Feb. 2002.

A list of proposed/submitted chapter titles and authors for the upcoming Global Change Biology (GCB) special issue focusing on the research of the SAFARI 2000 project can be found HERE. last updated: 30 Jan. 2002.

The EO-1/Landsat-7 tandem image pair over the SAFARI 2000 Skukuza site (announced in the second SAFARI Newsletter) is now available for public release from the Landsat-7 Project Science Office.
           The Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) Advanced Land Imager (ALI) and Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data sets cover part of the Kruger National Park on May 30, 2001 and were collected only a minute apart.
           The data are available on CD-ROM and by FTP. The following link provides additional details about the tandem data set: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/IAS/tandem/Read_Me_1G.html.
           Please contact Richard Irish (Richard.Irish@gsfc.nasa.gov or +1 301 614-6604) to obtain a copy.
           We are again very grateful to the respective teams for the compilation and public release of these data sets over one of the SAFARI test sites.

Information on Travel to Southern Africa can be found under the travel advisory.

Please be sure to check out the quicklook products, first results, and numerous presentations from the mid-project review and various public outreach activities available at the Intensive Field Campaign www.safari2000.org website.

Project Reports from the Field:

Please be aware of the Scientific References we have available.

Campaign Information for IFC3 Participants.

Workshop Reports

SAFARI 2000 Science Plan Version 1.0 (.pdf file- 245KB)

The SAFARI 2000 Logo was designed by Hailey King.

If you are interested in visiting the SAFARI 2000 FTP Site you can download from the read only section: ftp://safari.gecp.virginia.edu.

Contributions are also welcome at: ftp://safari.gecp.virginia.edu/dropbox.

Please email safari_sec@virginia.edu when you send something so that it will be posted promptly. A table of contents for the ftp site is available here.

For questions or comments regarding SAFARI 2000, please contact Bob Swap or Tim Suttles. For comments or suggestions regarding the web pages (UVA site only), please contact Dave Richardson.

last updated 28 February 2002