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 interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly involving scientists from the developing countries.

Deadline for abstract submission to the EGU General Assembly, 22-27 April 2012, Vienna, Austria is 17 January 2012.
Please consider submitting an abstract to the iLEAPS organized/co-sponsored sessions:
BG2.8 Remote Sensing and data assimilation in the Biogeosciences (co-sponsored by iLEAPS)
CL2.2 Seasons and phenology: Evidence from observations, reconstructions, measurements and models (co-sponsored by USA-NPN, PAGES & ILEAPS)
AS2.1 Air-Land Interactions (General Session) (co-sponsored by iLEAPS)
BG1.4 Earth Observation for Land-Atmosphere Interaction Science
BG1.6 Climate extremes, ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles

All iLEAPS-related sessions you can find here. Flyer you can download here: (pdf).

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) and Biogeosciences (BG) have opened a joint special issue on iLEAPS-related science.
Special issue Editors: Alex. B. Guenther, Paulo Artaxo, Laurens Ganzeveld, Hans P. Schmid, Markku Kulmala, Albrecht Neftel, Almuth Arneth, Julia Pongratz, Nobuko Saigusa and Sonia I. Seneviratne.
Contribute by sending manuscripts on land-atmosphere interactions to this joint issue via either ACP or BG. Submission is continuously open until 2015. All iLEAPS special issue articles will be listed on the special issue joint webpage.
You can find the articles currently in review process at: http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/special_issue151.html
or at: http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/special_issue18_151.html

The scientific oral and poster programs are available under Programme, Overall timetable.

Other events organised in connection to the Science Conference: Early Career Scientist Workshop 16-17 September, Post-Conference Workshop 25-26 September.

Several satellite events are organised in connection with the iLEAPS Science Conference, more information available at conference www, Satellite events.

LULCC Kick-Off Meeting on Wednesday 21 September. The aim of the meeting is to get together a variety of stakeholders for discussion and planning the implementation of LULCC. Invited speakers include George Hurtt, Julia Pongratz, Faisal Hossan and Bart van den Hurk et al. Please register to the Kick-Off Meeting for contact information and participant list here.

iLEAPS welcomes scientists from all around the world to attend the events in Garmisch-Partenkirchen!

We warmly welcome participants and representatives from companies, agencies and institutions to join the researchers and early-career scientists in planning for future exciting work within land ecosystem-atmosphere interactions research!