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Sunday, 13 December — Cultural Politics of Climate Change
Max Boykoff
Matthew Nisbet
Gwendolyn Blue
Monday, 14 December
U12A An Earthquake in an Ancient City: The April 2009 L'Aquila (Central Italy) Seismic Sequence I
P14C Whipple Lecture
Mars Exploration: Bridging Our Past and Future
Presented by Jean-Pierre Bibring, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France
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Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture
Presented by Marcia McNutt, Director, United States Geological Survey
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Tuesday, 15 December
IN22A Geo-Visualization with Virtual Globes II
H22A Langbein Lecture
Water, Weather, and Climate in Our Future: What Can We Know?
Presented by John C Schaake, NOAA/National Weather Service (retired), Annapolis, Maryland, USA
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A23A Bjerknes Lecture
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
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G24A Bowie Lecture
Geodetic Constraints on the Tectonics of Alaska and the North Pacific
Presented by Jeffrey T. Freymueller, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
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C24A Nye Lecture
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
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2009 Aki Award Presentatio
Recipient: Florent Brenguier, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
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S24B Gutenberg Lecture
Tremor, the Curious Third Wheel of Fault Motion
Presented by John E. Vidale, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Wednesday, 16 December
U34A Consequences of an Unusually Long and Deep Solar Minimum I
PP31E Emiliani Lecture
Holocene Changes in the Indonesian Throughflow Region
Presented by Delia Oppo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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P32B Sagan Lecture
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
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NG32A Lorenz Lecture
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
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SH33C Parker Lecture
A Voyage Through the Heliosphere
Presented by Leonard F. Burlaga, Geospace Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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T34A Birch Lecture
A Eulogy for Eustasy
Presented by J. X. Mitrovica, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Thursday, 17 December
P41C Shoemaker Lecture
Enceladus: Oasis or Ice Ball?
Presented by Susan W. Kieffer, Geology Department, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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GP44A Bullard Lecture
Rocks That Remember
Presented by Suzanne A. McEnroe, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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