May 30, 31 and June 1, 2007

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

Building 3 Auditorium

There will be no registration fee, but all participants must register by March 31, 2007 (registration has ended.)

"We honor Yoram best by continuing to pursue first class scientific research in the areas of his most passionate interests."

In this spirit, we will gather for a 3 day symposium of invited speakers who will present recent original research in the following fields:

• Passive remote sensing of the aerosols, clouds and the Earth's surface
• Active remote sensing of clouds and aerosols
• Aerosols and climate
• Aerosol field campaigns
• Future satellite missions

Speakers are by invitation only.

Following the symposium and continuing to the closing date of August 1, 2007, we welcome all invited speakers as well as audience participants to submit a journal article to the Yoram J. Kaufman special issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Lorraine Remer, Didier Tanré, and Teruyuki Nakajima

• Michael King
• Francois-Marie Breon
• Dave Winker
• Graeme Stephens
• Michael Schulz
• Ron Miller
• Paulo Artaxo
• Jim Haywood
• Mark Schoeberl
• Brian Cairns

Wednesday, May 30

8:30 - 9:00 Welcomes

9:00 - 9:30 Retrospective of Yoram's career highlights

9:30 - 10:30 Passive Remote Sensing Chairs: M. King and F.-M. Breon (with speakers: S. Platnick, L. Remer, R. Kahn, FM Bréon, D. Tanré, J. Riédi, B. Holben, E. Vermote, S. Ackerman)

10:30 - 10:50 Break

10:50 - 12:20 or 12:30 Passive Remote Sensing continued

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch

2:30 - 3:30 Passive Remote Sensing continued

3:30 - 4:30 Active Remote Sensing Chairs G. Stephens and D. Winker (speakers TBD)

4:30 - 4:50 Break

4:50 - 5:50 Active Remote Sensing (1 hr)


Thursday, May 31

8:40 - 9:00 Active Remote Sensing continued

9:00 - 10:00 Aerosols and Climate Chairs R. Miller and M. Schulz (with speakers: S. Menon, T. Takemura, O. Dubovik, I. Koren, P. Ginoux, M. Chin, J. Penner and others TBD)

10:00 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 12:20 Aerosols and Climate continued

12:20 - 2:30 Lunch

2:30 - 3:50 Aerosols and Climate continued

3:50 - 4:10 Break

4:10 - 5:30 Aerosol Field Campaigns Chairs J. Haywood and P. Artaxo (with speakers: Ramanathan, S. Piketh, P. Russell, D. Rosenfeld, P. Artaxo, E. Highwood, J. Haywood, G. Feingold, C. Liousse, A. Clarke)


Friday, June 1

9:00 - 10:20 Aerosol Field Campaigns continued

10:20 - 10:40 Break

10:40 - 12:00 Future missions Chairs B. Cairns and M. Schoeberl (B. Cairns, T. Nakajima, R. Ferrare, M. Schoeberl)

12:00 - 12:20 Closing remarks and directions to cemetery

12:20 Lunch


Afternoon, convene at cemetery for unveiling ceremony, followed by afternoon tea at the home of Jean Kaufman.