The expected themes of the third symposium will be global in their orientation, including results of research carried out under various large-scale international programs, such as Earth System Science, Global Geoscience, Global Change, and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), and may even include results of astroglaciological research, such as satellite glaciological studies of the Martian polar ice caps from data acquired by the Mars Observer spacecraft.
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