This year's joint Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) / American Meteorological Society (AMS) Congress to be held in Montreal from May 29 to June 1, 2012 will feature a session entitled Planetary and Exo-Planetary Atmospheres, Surface Interactions and Astrobiology. This new session, held for the first time this year, seeks to bring together research in atmospheres beyond our own and the processes which affect their composition and dynamics from researchers across Canada and the World. For more information, please consult the links below or contact John Moores at john.e.moores@gmail.com .

Abstracts may be submitted no later than February 17, 2012 at the website of the Montreal Congress:

http://www.cmos.ca/congress2012/en/abstractsubmission/index.shtml

A more complete description of the session can be found here:

http://people.sca.uqam.ca/~gauthier/CMOS2012/ProgramCMOSMontreal2012_ web.htm#_Planetary_and_Exo-Planetary