In the January NS newsletter:

NS Focus Group Membership Exceeds 3000

Newsletter of the Near Surface Geophysics Section of the SEG

FastTIMES from the EEGS

Contributions to the NS Fund
As you renew your dues this year, you may want to consider making a contribution and designating it for the NS Fund.

To join this Focus Group
Log into the AGU through their update member record link. Under the "Membership Record" select "Near Surface Geophysics" as your primary or "other" affiliation under the "Areas of Scientific Interest" section.

Announcements

• EGU session about Archaeological Prospection for the next EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria (02-07 May) Magnetic and/or other geophysical prospection for archeology (MPRG12)
  Convener: Y.Q. Quesnel (quesnel@cerege.fr, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France)
  Co-Convener: S. Piro (NRC, Italy)
  The session is then opened to geophysical studies on potential/known archaeological sites, focusing on prospections which use magnetics combined with other methods (GPR, resistivity, etc.) or constrained by rock property constraints. The objective is to share different experiences as well as to highlight some needed improvements in some fields (e.g. new instruments?, new processing techniques?, etc.).  You are invited to submit an abstract via the EGU 2010 website on this link: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2550
    DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT: 18 January 2010

• EGU meeting sessions of interest include:
    HS6.5: Combining modelling and measuring to improve understanding of subsurface flow and transport systems
    HS7.2: Hydrogeophysics in subsurface hydrology
    SM5.1: Noise Interferometry: What can we learn from noise ?
    SM5.3: Depth imaging and tomographic inversion of active seismic data: methodological advances and applications
    SM5.4: Seismic tomography - state of the art: algorithms and results
    SM5.5: Imaging the shallow subsurface with seismic and GPR methods
    SM5.6: New approaches to the analysis and interpretation of magnetotelluric data
    SM5.7: Joint inversion of geophysical data sets Convener: Max Moorkamp
    SM6.5/ERE2.5: CO2 sequestration geophysics (co-organized) Convener: Stefan Buske
    MPRG5/G17: From large to small scales for potential fields - tools and models? (co-organized)
    MPRG16: The transport properties of geomaterials: Theory, modelling, measurement, application and integration.

• Please vote! Monday, 4 January 2010 through Wednesday, 3 February 2010
  For the first time members will elect a six-person Board of Directors with fiduciary responsibility for the organization. To view the slate of candidates and their biographical information, see Eos, volume 90, number 51, dated 22 December 2009 or go to the online election page.

• Call for Abstracts: Goldschmidt 2010 Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee June 13-18th http://www.goldschmidt2010.org/index Abstract submission deadline February 21

• Plan ahead for the 2010 Joint Assembly Meeting of the Americas, 08-13 August, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil
  The Meeting of the Americas (http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja10/), will be held 08-13 August 2010 in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil The Iguazu World Natural Heritage Park will provide a spectacular backdrop to this Assembly which is sponsored by the most important Earth Science and Space Community Organizations of the Americas.
  Abstract submission deadline will be March 31, 2010.
  NS Program Committee for JA 2010: Jandyr Travassos, Brazil jandyr@on.br, Juan Lorenzo, gllore@lsu.edu