Near Surface Geophysics Focus Group

In the August NS newsletter:

New Executive Committee  for NS Focus Group

Student Representative for NS

 AGU Chapman Conference on Biogeophysics - Travel Funds for Early Scientists
 

2008 Fall AGU Meeting, 15-19 December, San Francisco,CA
Near Surface sessions
Hydrogeophysics session
NS co-sponsored sessions

Third East Bay Earthquake Hazards Conference
Abstracts due Aug. 15

Near Surface Geophysics Section of SEG News

     SEG 2008 Meeting Update : Las Vegas, NV, 10-14 November
Near Surface Geophysics Section of SEG Elections

Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS) News
SAGGEP 2009 conference call for abstracts
 

EEGS lastest issue of FastTIMES available online: News for the near-surface geophysical sciences

Announcements

• Please remember the following dates for the 2008 Fall AGU meeting:

  • September 10: Abstract Submission Deadline

  • September 10: Student Travel Grant Deadline

  • September 10: Town Hall Proposal Deadline

  • November 14: Housing Deadline

  • November 14: Discounted Registration Deadline

  • November 26: Advance Registration Deadline
     

• Elliot Grunewald (Stanford University) has agreed to serve as 'NS Focus Group Student Representative', a new appointment for the second term of focus group activities. Elliots' duties include reporting to the EC on ongoing student activities in near surface geophysics, emerging student opportunities in near surface geophysics, organizing social events for annual meetings, brainstorming on how the NS Focus Group can best represent/serve its student members, and brainstorming on how to help NS increase its student membership. Most importantly, Elliot provides a voice for students of near surface geophysics within the focus group. Students are strongly encouraged to contact Elliot to share their ideas and concerns about the focus group at any time (elliotg@stanford.edu). Welcome Elliot, and many thanks for your willing to serve as the first student representative of the focus group!
   

• You are cordially invited to participate in the Third Conference on Earthquake Hazards in the Eastern San Francisco Bay Area: Science, Hazard, Engineering, and Risk, October 22 to 24, 2008, at California State University East Bay, Hayward Campus. Four related field trips will be conducted Saturday and Sunday, October 25 to 26. The conference is sponsored by the California Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey, California State University East Bay, and others.
  Information is available at: http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/News/Pages/eastbayconference.aspx
  Abstracts are due August 15, and should be submitted online at:   http://www.seismosoc.org/meetings/2008/3ebconf/
   

• Do You Want to Organize a Chapman Conference? If so, please contact the current NS Focus Group Chair Rosemary Knight rknight@stanford.edu. AGU has set the nominal goal of having one Chapman Conference per year for each Section, as part of the mission of AGU. They therefore invite each Section or Focus Group to identify possible conference topics, and scientists that might be interested to propose and organize a Chapman Conference relevant to their section. See the AGU web site for more information about Chapman Conferences at http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman.html
   

• SEG 2008 Meeting: Registration (www.seg.org) is now open for the SEG Annual Meeting and Technical Program which contains a full Near Surface Geophysics (NSG) docket from Monday thru Friday, starting with the SEG Forum "Managing our Groundwater Resources for the Future", sponsored by the NSG Section on Monday morning. The Annual Meeting and Technical Program run from Nov 10 - Nov 14, and the NSGS is scheduled to have a full docket from Monday thru Friday. The SEG Forum, sponsored by the NSGS, kicks off the technical program on Monday morning and is titled "Managing our Groundwater Resources for the Future", further information is provided below.
   

• Induced Polarization: Research and Recent Advances in Near Surface Applications, EEGS-NSGS Workshop, 14 Nov. 2008, SEG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada
   

• We need a new logo for the Near Surface Focus Group! Please see here for details about the logo as well as for further information about the NS group.