Media Advisory 2
FALL MEETING
Moscone Convention Center
747 Howard Street
San Francisco, California
December 15-19, 2000
Abstracts, Press Conferences, Press Registration
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Contents of this message
1. Search the abstracts
2. Press conferences (preliminary list)
3. Who's coming
4. Press Registration Form
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Note: For the following basic information, please see Media
Advisory 1 of August 24, 2000, at
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl0023.html.
This important information is not repeated here.
General information
Hotel information
Sponsor
Press facilities
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1. Search the abstracts
The printed volume of abstracts for this meeting will not be available until late November. All abstracts have now been posted on the AGU web site and may be access by a search tool, located at http://www.agu.org/meetings/waisfm00adv.html.
Finding Sessions and Abstracts
The names, numerical designations, dates, times, and room numbers of all Meeting sessions have been posted on the AGU web site at http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm00glan.html. By clicking on the name of a Section (e.g., Hydrology, Atmospheric Science), all of the sessions under that Section's auspices will be displayed. Clicking on any of these sessions will open a list of papers and/or posters associated with that session. Clicking on the name of a particular paper will open the abstract for that paper, including name and contact information for the lead author.
Many sessions are jointly sponsored by two or more Sections. The Union Sessions are expected to have the broadest interdisciplinary appeal.
Finding Abstracts of Interest to You
Reporters and public information officers may search for abstracts of particular interest to them, by looking up the:
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Name of a scientist
Name of an institution (e.g., university, government agency)
Geographic location (e.g., city, state, or country)
Topic (e.g., volcano, Io, erosion)
Note: If searching for papers from a particular institution, it is often more effective to search by e-mail address, rather than the name of the institution. The latter may be written in different ways by various authors (e.g., UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Univ. of Cal. at Los Angeles, etc.), but all of their e-mail addresses will include "ucla." The search key word "Affiliation" covers both names of institutions and their locations (e.g., look for either University of Arizona or Tucson under Affiliation).
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2. Press conferences (Preliminary)
We are in the process of developing a range of press conferences on scientific advances being reported at Fall Meeting. As always, the press conferences only scratch the surface of the thousands of newsworthy oral and poster presentations, and reporters who comb through the abstracts are almost guaranteed to find exciting sessions that will be, essentially, exclusives.
Following are some of the press conference topics currently under consideration. They are, of course, subject to change. A detailed press conference list, including dates, times, and participants, will be included in a subsequent advisory.
The Bastille Day solar storm (aka Revenge of the Sun King)
Voyagers reach the outer heliosphere, remain in contact with Earth
Galileo calls on Ganymede
Chicxulub: New information about a critical event in Earth's
history
Lost cities off the Egyptian coast: what have we learned?
Coping with uncertainties in climate change research and policy
activities
Effects of natural hazards in prehistoric times
Fire in boreal forests
The science of carbon sequestration
Microbial survival and interaction with minerals
The impact of volcanic activity on Earth's atmosphere
Preliminary results of the Hawaii drilling project
Volcanology in 2010: what will have changed?
Predicting submarine mass failures and tsunami hazards
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3. Who's coming?
Following is the list of pre-registered Press Room registrants. If you believe you have preregistered, but your name is not below, please resubmit the registration form, found at the end of this message. All press registrants who were not previously on the AGU e-mail distribution list for press releases have been added to it, in order to receive this and subsequent advisories. If you do not wish to remain on the list after Fall Meeting, please inform Harvey Leifert hleifert@agu.org.
Robert Adler, Freelance
Mario Aguilera, Scripps
Andrew Alden, About.com Geology
Molly Bain, BBC Radio
Andrew Bridges, Space.com
Michael Buckley, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Matthew Carr, Freelance
David Chandler, Boston Globe
Kenneth Chang, New York Times
Glennda Chui. San Jose Mercury News
Steve Cole, NASA EOS Project
Robert Cowen, Christian Science Monitor
Blake Edgar, Freelance
Timothy Ferris, Freelance
John Fogarty, Ocean Drilling Program
Stacey Fowler, ENN.com
Laura Garwin, Nature
Fred Gebhart, Drug Topics
Rick Gore, National Geographic
Robert Gutro, Freelance
Carl Hall, San Francisco Chronicle
Mary Harding, JPL
Richard Hill, Oregonian
Jacqueline Hollister, WHOI
Robert Irion, ScienceNOW
Pat Jorgenson, USGS
Dick Kerr, Science
Barbara Goss Levi, Physics Today
Dawn Levy, Stanford U.
Emilie Lorditch, Discoveries & Breakthroughs Inside Science
Barbara McConnell, National Geographic Magazine
Kim McDonald, UCSD
Usha Lee McFarling, Los Angeles Times
Debbie Meyer, MBARI
Katherine Miller, UCSC
Mary Miller, Freelance
Robert Naeye, Mercury Magazine
Madeleine Nash, Time
Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery.com
David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle
Charlie Petit, U.S. News & World Report
Paul Preuss, LBNL
Solana Pyne, UCSC
Horst Rademacher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Christina Reed, Geotimes
Phil Schewe, Physics News Update
David Schneider, American Scientist
Mark Schrope, Freelance
Randy Showstack, Eos
Mark Shwartz, Stanford U.
Alan Stahler, KVMR-FM
Michael Starobin, NASA-TV
Bill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard
Dawn Stover, Popular Science
Annette Varani, DAAS/NASA
Lidia Wasowicz, UPI
Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics
Alexandra Witze, Dallas Morning News
Kathleen Wong, Freelance
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4. Press Registration
Press registrants receive a badge that provides access to any of the scientific sessions of the meeting, as well as to the Press Room and Briefing Room. No one will be admitted without a valid badge. A press registration form will be found at the end of this message.
Eligibility for press registration is limited to the following persons:
Working press employed by bona fide news media: must
present a press card, business card, or letter of introduction from an editor of the publication.
Freelance science writers: must present a current
membership card from NASW, NCSWA (or other regional
affiliate of NASW), ISWA, or SEJ, or evidence of by-lined work pertaining to science intended for the general public and published in 1999 or 2000.
Public information officers of scientific societies,
educational institutions, and government agencies: must present a business card.
Note: Representatives of publishing houses, for-profit corporations, and the business side of news media must pre-register through the AGU web site or register at the main registration desk at the meeting and pay the appropriate fees.
Press Registration Form follows, next page.
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AGU 2000 FALL MEETING PRESS REGISTRATION FORM
You are encouraged to register online. An online version of this
form is available at
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/fm00pressreg.html.
If you prefer, this form may be copied and returned to Harvey Leifert by email to hleifert@agu.org or by fax (202-328-0566).
Once the Abstract book is available, and while supplies last, it will be sent to registrants, upon request, below. (Others will receive a copy in the Press Room.)
Name: ______________________________________________________
(to be printed on badge)
Media Affiliation: ______________________________________________________
(Freelancers: Describe your eligibility per criteria in Media
Advisory 00-27 of October 19, 2000.)
Mailing address: ______________________________________________________
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Telephone: ________________________________
Fax: ________________________________
Email: _______________________________________________
Abstract Book (Check one box below):
Send Abstracts to me at the above address by USPS First Class
Mail.
Send Abstracts to me at above address (no P.O. boxes!) via express service.
Name of service (e.g., FedEx, UPS, etc.)
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Class of service (e.g., next morning, 2nd day, 3rd day, etc.)
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My Account Number ______________________________
Do not send Abstracts in advance; hold for me in the Press
Room.
Date: ____________________
Press pre-registration deadline is Friday, December 8, 2000.
(Form must be received at AGU by that date for your badge to be available upon arrival, avoiding delay. You may also register in the Press Room.)