Webcasts, Lectures & Town Halls
Town Halls
Town Hall meetings were held throughout the conference. View all Town Hall meeting descriptions and locations.
Webcasts
AGU made some sessions available to the geophysical community through live webcasts. These sessions are now archived and available for viewing on web video.
Lectures
A selection of videos of Section and Focus Group Named lectures are now available for viewing.
Bowie* and Named Lectures
The Bowie Lecture Series was inaugurated in 1989 to commemorate the fiftieth presentation of the William Bowie Medal, which is AGU's highest honor and is named for AGU's first president. Bowie Lectures are distinguished below with an asterisk. All lectures except the Bowen Lecture will be webcast and posted on the Fall Meeting Web site.
Monday, 14 December
P14C Whipple Lecture
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 104, 1600h
Mars Exploration: Bridging Our Past and Future
Presented by Jean-Pierre Bibring, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France
Tuesday, 15 December
H22A – Langbein Lecture*
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom Room 104, 1020h
Water, Weather, and Climate in Our Future: What Can We Know?
Presented by John C Schaake, NOAA/National Weather Service (retired), Annapolis, Maryland, USA
V22A – Bowen Lecture
Moscone West, Room 2020, 1020h
Calculated Metamorphic Phase Equilibria: Applications and Strategies for Equilibria in High-Pressure Rocks
Presented by Tim Holland, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U. K.
Roger Powell, Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Activity-Composition Relationships in the Forward Modeling of Metamorphic Phase Equilibria
Presented by Roger Powell, Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and Tim Holland, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U. K.
A23A Bjerknes Lecture*
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 103, 1340h
The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Climate History
Presented by Richard B. Alley
Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
G24A Bowie Lecture*
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 103, 1600h
Geodetic Constraints on the Tectonics of Alaska and the North Pacific
Presented by Jeffrey T. Freymueller
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
C24A Nye Lecture
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 103, 1700h
Arctic Hydrology and the Role of Feedbacks in the Climate System
Presented by Larry D. Hinzman
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
2009 Aki Award Presentation
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 104, 1700h
Recipient: Florent Brenguier, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
S24B Gutenberg Lecture*
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 104, 1700h
Tremor, the Curious Third Wheel of Fault Motion
Presented by John E. Vidale
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Wednesday, 16 December
PP31E Emiliani Lecture
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 104, 0845h
Holocene Changes in the Indonesian Throughflow Region
Presented by Delia Oppo
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
P32B Sagan Lecture
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 104, 1020h
Life at the Common Denominator: Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology for the Earth and Space Sciences
Presented by Tori Hoehler
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA
NG32A Lorenz Lecture
Moscone South, Esplanade Ballroom, Room 309, 1020h
Complexity of Earth's Magnetosphere: Coherence in a Multiscale Open System
Presented by A. S. Sharma
Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
SH33C Parker Lecture
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 104, 1440h
A Voyage Through the Heliosphere
Presented by Leonard F. Burlaga
Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
T34A Birch Lecture*
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 104, 1700h
A Eulogy for Eustasy
Presented by J. X. Mitrovica
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Thursday, 17 December
P41C Shoemaker Lecture*
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 104, 0800h
Enceladus: Oasis or Ice Ball?
Presented by Susan W. Kieffer
Geology Department, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
GP44A Bullard Lecture*
Moscone South, Gateway Ballroom, Room 102, 1600h
Rocks That Remember
Presented by Suzanne A. McEnroe
Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway
Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Public Lecture & Reception
Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon Street
Lecture: 1900h–2000h, Reception: 2000h–2130h
Near-Earth Comets and Asteroids: Finding Them Before They Find Us
Presented by Donald K. Yeomans Manager, NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office (JPL/Caltech)