Welcome!

Mark your calendars today to attend the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting! The Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 15,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences.

Be Prepared for Fall Meeting

The AGU Meetings Committee is implementing processes to make AGU meetings greener.  Meeting attendees will receive general information including a list of sessions by discipline, cosponsors, day, time, and location. There will also be an author index, maps, and other general meeting information. The detailed session information is available on the Fall Meeting Web site, so this will not be provided in print format.

Be prepared by using the personal itinerary tool to create your schedule and plan the sessions you wish to attend. http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/itinerary

View and/or download the detailed session schedules.  You can drill down to individual talks and view the abstracts.

A limited number of CDs will be available to meeting registrants on a first request basis.  There will also be some computer terminals available to look up meeting information while at the meeting.

Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture

Monday, 15 December 1830h
Moscone West, Room 3008
Presented by: Michael Jones, Chief Technical Officer, Google Earth

Public Lecture

Thursday, 18 December, 1900h
San Francisco Exploratorium
Phoenix in Winter Wonderland
Presented by: Peter Smith, University of Arizona

Phoenix recently completed a five-month-long investigation of the Martian arctic and found water ice just beneath the dry surface soil. Comparing Antarctic dry valleys with the Martian polar plains leads to the conclusion that liquid water helped create the minerals in the soil. Snow has been observed falling from overlying clouds and frost is seen on the surface. Water is clearly part of the climate cycle and leads to the question: Is this a location where life is possible on Mars?

Visas

Visa applicants from many countries must now apply at least 3 months in advance of their travel date. See Visa Information for details.

Programs for Students

Travel grants to the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting are available for eligible AGU student members. More details here.

Communicating Your Science To The Public

AGU's Public Information staff will run a workshop on Communicating Your Science To The Public. More details are available here.

Registration for this workshop has closed.

Effectively Communicating Climate Change

Tuesday 16 December 1830-2100. Location to be announced. More details and the application form are here.

Registration for this workshop has closed.

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