iLEAPS is the land-atmosphere core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). The scientific goal of iLEAPS is to provide understanding how interacting physical, chemical and biological processes transport and transform energy and matter through the land-atmosphere interface. iLEAPS encourages international and crossdisciplinary collaboration, particularly involving scientists from the developing countries.

iLEAPS is organizing a Science Conference on 24-28 August 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.

The iLEAPS Scientific Steering Committee is hereby inviting session topics and conveners for the iLEAPS conference. The sessions will be thematic and encompass several projects and initiatives all over the world. To fit the iLEAPS objective, the sessions will be addressing land-atmosphere interactions in an integrative manner.

iLEAPS is also organizing an Early Career Scientists' onference/Workshop prior to the main conference. We welcome suggestions for topics and hosts,especially from Australia.

The deadline for the proposals for iLEAPS Science Conference sessions and Early Career Scientists' Conference/Workshop is Tuesday, 24 June 2008.

The iLEAPS Science Conference is organized parallel to GEWEX Scientific Conference. The two parallel conferences will have three joint sessions that cover broadly the following themes: 1) Land in the climate system; 2) Aerosol, cloud, precipitation, climate interactions; 3) Future generation of integrated observation and modeling systems.   

We are looking forward to your proposals; please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for proposals and more information.

Date: 4 -14 August 2008

Place: Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station, Finland

Contact person: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Marie Curie Initial Training Network CLOUD, Nordic graduate school CBACCI (Biosphere-Carbon-Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions), Nordic master's degree programme ABS (Atmosphere-Biosphere Studies), Finnish graduate school "Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Meteorology of Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change", iLEAPS (Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study) and EUSAAR are pleased to invite students to the 2008 Summer School "Formation and growth of atmospheric aerosols".

Event website

Regional Science Team Meeting devoted to the High Latitudes of the NEESPI (Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative) domain is held in Helsinki, Finland on 2-6 June 2008. The meeting is hosted by iLEAPS IPO. Meeting programme and logistics of  the meeting can be found here.