ICASA (www.icasa.net) will host its Eleventh Open Forum at the
ASA-CSSA-SSSA meetings in New Orleans. If you are attending the
meetings, please join us at:

  Monday, 5 November, 7:30 to 9:00 pm

  Hilton Riverside, Fountain Room, Third Floor

 

Issues we expect to cover include:

- Report on SEAMLESS project in Europe (http://www.seamless-ip.org/)

- Reports from/on active working groups

   - ICASA standards and development of databases for field data

   - Sugar Cane WG

   - Data assimilation

   - Sorghum

   - Gene-based modeling            

 

- Recent and upcoming modeling events: BSSG, European Soc. Agronomy,
2008 DSSAT Course

 

- News of various models and DSS, including upcoming release of DSSAT4.5

 

- Use of ICASA forum at www.icasaforum.net 

 

There is still time to suggest topics (but _please_ don't reply to this
message unless you want the general modeling public to read your mail).

 

Also, be sure to check the ICASA web site and try out the forum
(www.icasaforum.net <http://www.icasaforum.net/> ).

 

- Jeff White

 

Jeffrey W. White

USDA ARS, ALARC

21881 N Cardon Lane

Maricopa, AZ 85238, USA

Tel: +1-520-316-6368

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