In the November NS newsletter:

Call for Seismic and GPR abstracts: EGU Meeting, Vienna, Austria, May 2 to May 7, 2010

Call for Session Proposals: 2010 Joint Assembly Meeting of the Americas, 08-13 August, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil

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

• Governance vote is compelte
  Information about the results may be found at http://www.agu.org/governancevote. 

• Announcing OPEN EM.org
  OPEN EM.org is a community resource for electromagnetic geophysics. Please visit this new resource at http://openem.org/

• 2009 Fall AGU Meeting December 14-18 in San Francisco, California, USA.

• See the November NS newsletter for a call for papers for the Special Issue of Environmental Geosciences Journal: Environmental Geophysics in the Oilfield (from Jeff Paine)

• Please visit the Near Surface Student Wiki at http://ns-students.pbworks.com

• Plan ahead for the 2010 Joint Assembly Meeting of the Americas, 08-13 August, Foz do Iguassu, Brazil
  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). 

• 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