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Invitation to attend NRB23 in Northern Sweden Aug 20th – 25th
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- This year’s Northern Research Basins (NRB) Symposium in Sweden is happening August 20th-25th, 2023. Laura Brown and Murray Richardson are the Deputy and Chief Canadian NRB working group delegates, respectively, tasked with assembling this year’s contingent of Canadian delegates and ensure good representation of northern Canadian hydrology research at the meeting. If you are a high-latitude hydrology researcher and wish to participate, please contact Laura Brown (lc.brown@utoronto.ca) and (murray.richardson@carleton.ca) via email and plan to submit an abstract by May 31st. Please see below for more details and visit the conference website at https://nrb23.se/. The estimated overall costs including all expenses (bus, all food, accommodation, some fees, etc) will be around 1200€ for the whole week (Sunday to Friday). The final price will depend on the total number of participants and will be lower for people willing to share their room. Cost information will be provided by the organizing committee when the number of registrants is confirmed.
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