WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Spring Meeting returns to Boston this year from June 1 to 4, immediately following the Memorial Day weekend. Sponsored by AGU, the Geochemical Society, and the Mineralogical Society of America, it will offer a broad range of special sessions, many of which will be newsworthy. Just a small sampling of topics:
- Yucca Mountain: The Future High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository?
- Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change
- Earth's Deep Interior and Surface Observations: How Are They Linked and
What Can We Learn?
- Contaminated Groundwater and Litigation: Lessons From the Woburn [Mass.]
Case
- Saving Our Coasts
- Infrasound and Monitoring the CTBT [Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty]
- Advances in GPS [Global Positioning System] Science and Technology for
the Study of Global Change and Natural Hazards Phenomena
- The South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX)
- Urban Emissions and Atmospheric Chemistry
- The Magnetic Fields of Solar System Planets and Moons: New Insights and
Unanswered Questions
- Carbon Sequestration and Biogeochemistry of Soils
- The Scientific Basis of Water Quality Monitoring
- Recent Advances in Underwater Vehicle Technology
- Human Response to Global Change: The Past as a Guide to the Future
- The Near-Earth Asteroid Rendevous Mission: A First Look at 433 Eros
- Latest Results From Mars Global Surveyor
- The Earth in Context: Why Are Our Neighboring Planets So Different?
- Space Weather - Observations, Models, and Products
- Tectonic Evolution of the Himalayas and Tibet
We will, of course, arrange a series of press conferences and other events for media representatives to help you get the most out of Spring Meeting. These will be announced later. A subsequent Media Advisory will permit advance registration by journalists and public information officers.
It is not too soon to reserve a hotel room in Boston, and this may be done now online: http://www.passkey.com/events/agu/aguatt.html.