In the June NS newsletter:

Report from the 2009 Joint Assembly in Toronto (from Lee Slater and Louise Pellerin)

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

• Congratulations to Vanessa Mitchell and Elliot Grunewald, the Near Surface Outstanding Student Paper Award winners for the 2008 Fall AGU Meeting!
  Vanessa and Elliot are both graduate students from the School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University. Congratulations to Vanessa and Elliot for their outstanding work.

• International Workshop on Induced Polarization in Near Surface Geophysics
  The Induced Polarization working group of the German Geophysical Society (DGG) invites participation in the workshop, September 30 – October 1, 2009, Bonn, Germany. For more information please see http://ipworkshop.geo.uni‐bonn.de  Registration deadline: August 31, 2009

• First Announcement: 2010 Joint Assembly Meeting of the Americas, 08-13 August, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil (from Juan Lorenzo, JA 2010 NS Program Representative)
  The Near Surface Focus Group (NSFG) is a new and dynamic division of AGU that investigates the complex nature of near-surface geosystems. Join us in this wonderful opportunity to tap the great diversity of experience of the American continents and develop professional collaborations with neighbors. In late fall we will begin to accept proposals for sessions, but start thinking about it now. Contact a colleague to organize a session with a north-south counterpoint.
    -Students are encouraged to collaborate and develop a session.
    -Information about the meeting can be found at http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja10.
    -If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Juan Lorenzo (gllore@lsu.edu). 

• IAGA meeting, August 23-30, 2009, Sopron, Hungary (from Niklas Linde)
  The next IAGA meeting is planned for August 23-30, 2009, in Sopron, Hungary: http://www.iaga2009sopron.hu/  Early registration is 370 euro up to June 15, from June 16 to August 22 it is 410 euro, and on-site registration is 450 euro, so it's well worth registering now!

• Agricultural Geophysics Conference, September 8-10, 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  More detailed information (conference registration, conference abstract submission, and hotel reservations) can be obtained by visiting the conference website (www.ag-geophysics.org) and by contacting the conference coordinators, Barry Allred (Barry.Allred@ars.usda.gov), Mary Collins (mec@ufl.edu), or Hamid Farahani (hfaraha@clemson.edu). 

• Society of Exploration Geophysicists calls for papers
  SEG's The Leading Edge (TLE) publishes special sections each month highlighting emerging or active areas of applied geophysics. A hydrogeophysics special section is scheduled for the October 2009 issue of TLE. The deadline for submitting papers to be considered is June 18, 2009. If you have any questions, or would like to submit a paper for consideration, please contact Rick Miller rmiller@kgs.ku.edu 

• Call for papers: Special Issue on “Student-Based Research” in EAGE journal of Near Surface Geophysics. Abstract deadline: 1 July 2009
  We wish to promote student-based research and encourage current undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit high-quality papers to the special issue as lead or major co-authors. Topics of interest are only required to fulfill the scope of the Near Surface Geophysics Journal, but we are particularly interested in
   -Innovative measurement, assessment and monitoring techniques
   -New and emerging geophysical methods and sensor technologies
   -New numerical/analytical modeling and inversion techniques applied to practical problems
   -The development of novel, integrated, multi-technique imaging and characterization approaches
   -The application of current geophysical techniques to new application areas
   -The analysis and re-evaluation of current data that leads to new perspectives on existing problems
   -Novel and interesting case histories/studies.
  In addition, we welcome papers that highlight the quality and novelty of student-based research and how it benefits the near-surface geophysics community in terms of educational, economic and professional development.
  Please see here for details or contact the guest editors Nigel Cassidy & Jamie Pringle, Keele University, U.K. ( n.j.cassidy@esci.keele.ac.uk, j.k.pringle@esci.keele.ac.uk).
   

• Do You Want to Organize a Chapman Conference? If so, please contact the current NS Focus Group Chair Lee Slater, lslater@andromeda.rutgers.edu.  See the AGU web site for more information about Chapman Conferences at http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman.html