Field Trip
Press Field Trip to California Academy of Sciences Museum
Sunday, 13 December
08:45h–13:30h
Come join us for a free, behind-the-scenes tour of the fabulous and recently renovated California Academy of Sciences museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The museum reopened in September 2008 in a completely new building renowned for its airiness and natural light, environmentally-friendly construction (especially its green roof) and spectacular exhibits.
Our morning excursion on Sunday, 13 December will include a guided tour of the museum's green roof and its exhibits on evolution and climate change plus visits to areas usually closed to museum visitors. There, scientists conduct research in fields as diverse as genomics and geology. The guided tour will be followed by a planetarium show and a complimentary lunch.
The field trip is expected to depart by bus from Moscone Convention Center (West Building) at 8:45 am and to leave the museum at 12:45 pm, returning to the convention center by around 1:30 pm (timing is subject to change). Those field-trip participants who prefer to remain at the museum after the official field trip activities have ended are welcome to stay and visit more of the museum (also at no cost). However, they will be responsible for their own return transportation.
To register for the field trip, please email Maria-José Viñas (mjvinas@agu.org) with the following information:
- Name
- Title
- Media outlet or other affiliation ("freelance" is fine)
- Work address
- Work email address
- Phone number
- Whether you have registered as a member of the news media for the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting
- Why you wish to participate
- (If you are a vegetarian, please also mention that dietary requirement in your email.)
Space is limited for this field trip. It is open only to credentialed journalists; public information officers of scientific societies, educational institutions, and government agencies; and journalism students. (Priority will be given to credentialed journalists.)
Before signing up, please give careful consideration to whether you will be able to attend. (Last year, far too few of the people who signed up for the field trip actually showed up.)
Confirmations of your place on the field trip or on the waiting list will be emailed to you. If a place has been reserved for you on the field trip but you find you cannot attend, please email Maria-José immediately to let her know.
(Note: Any field-trip participants arriving from afar are advised to be in town by Saturday, 12 December, as the field-trip bus will depart early on Sunday.)