Dear COAA Members and Guests:

The first COAA scientific workshop of Year 2002 has been scheduled on

March 23 (Saturday), from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the 2nd Floor
Auditorium (Room #2400), Computer and Space Sciences Building (C&SS),
Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP).
Eight speakers from government agencies and universities have agreed to
present their recent research in oceanic, atmospheric and earth
sciences. Please mark your calendar and come to participate in it. The
Workshop Agenda and Abstracts of Papers are attached per your
information in a separated file. The C&SS is located at the Stadium
Drive (in front of the ICA Practice Foot Fields). For detailed
direction and map to the C&SS and parking information, please refer to
UMCP websites (Building C&SS was indicated as #224 at the location E-6
on the map) as follows:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/About_UMCP/Maps/northwest.html
and http://www.umd.edu/Vistors/Parking.html

Before scientific presentations from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., COAA will
prepare a complimentary breakfast with Chinese dim sum, coffee, tea and
soft drink to serve you . After the workshop, a luncheon will be held
at the Seven Seas Chinese Restaurant, College Park. The location,
address, and direction to the restaurant, the menu (Sorry! in Chinese)
and the cost of each person are attached in a separated file. To
reserve your seat on the luncheon, please send an e-mail to me, the COAA
Secretary or COAA Program Co-Directors, Long Chiu and William Tseng and
indicate Yes and numbers of seats (if more than 1) on the e-mail Subject
by MARCH 21. For example, if your e-mail Subject to us is only a Yes,
meaning you will participate for one person in the luncheon, if your
Subject is a Yes and 2, meaning 2 persons will join the lunch and so
on. The e-mail addresses to reserve the seat in the luncheon are:

Eueng-nan Yeh <enyeh@dao.gsfc.nasa.gov>

Long Chiu <chiu@eosdata.gsfc.nasa.gov> or

William Tseng <William.Tseng@noaa.gov>

If you want to reply directly to the sender of this e-mail, please
delete all the attachments and email to you before sending it out, so
the e-mail volume can be reduced. Thanks!

A Board of Directors meeting will be followed during the lunch. Every
member and his/her guests are warmly welcome to participate in the
breakfast, lunch and Board of Directors meeting. Regarding the Board
meeting, Song Yang, the COAA President, has sent out an email to each
member previously.

If you have any questions regarding the meeting, please contact COAA
Program Co-Directors, Long Chiu (301-614-5141 or 703-993-1984), William
Tseng (301-763-8142 x 124 or Cell Phone 301-675-4334), or COAA
Secretary, Eueng-nan Yeh (301-614-6167). We will post the related files
attached in this e-mail on our COAA website, at www.coaaweb.org, very
soon.

ATTACHMENT:
1) COAA_Agenda_March23.doc is the file of workshop agenda,
2) COAA_abst_March23.doc is that of the abstracts of papers to be
presented, and
3) COAA0323_lunch_menu.gif is that of the lunch menu and
related information about the lunch.