NSF sponsors international collaboration by supporting travel and a reception at the 2006 AGU Joint Assembly.

From left to right: Galdino Mota of the Universidade Federal do Pará, Elen Cutrim of Western Michigan University, Marianne Keonig of EUMETSAT, Russ Dengel of the University of Wisconsin SSEC, Guilherme Chagas of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Volker Gaertner of EUMETSAT, Mohan Ramamurthy of Unidata, Tom Yoksas of Unidata, Claudia Campetella of the Universidade de Buenos Aires, Vilma Castro of the University of Costa Rica, and Pedro Dias of the Universidade de São Paulo.