News Release

Mark Your Calendar For Spring Meeting: Boston, June 1-4

Meeting Announcement

American Geophysical Union

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
The full list of special sessions, with descriptive information about each may be found on the AGU web site: http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm99spss.html.

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.

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