Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to participate in a poster session entitled:
"Are soils a sink or a source for atmospheric CO2?"  This poster session
will be part of the INQUA - Congress to be held July 23-31 2003, in
Reno, Nevada, USA.  The poster session will focus on the following
issues, related to impact of atmospheric CO2 on climate:

1) The contents and dynamics of pedogenic carbonate in different soils
during the Pleistocene and Holocene.
2) The regional and global balance of CO2 sinks and emissions from
soils.
3) The fate of CO2 in soils under the different climates of Pleistocene
and Holocene.

The journal "Quaternary International" was agree to publish a full text
of papers.

Information on the INQUA Congress is available on the following
web-site:
www.inqua2003.dri.edu The Abstract can be submitted only via INTERNET
website: http://inqua2003.dri.edu/abstracts.htm

For further information please contact Alexander Makeev (Moscow State
University) E-mail: [log in to unmask] and Yaroslav G. Ryskov, Institute
of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problem of Soil Science RAS E-mail:
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Fax: (70967)79 05 95