General Information
1999 Spring Meeting
John B. Hynes Convention Center
Boston, Massachusetts
June 1-4, 1999
(Tuesday through Friday)

• Sponsors
• Spring Meeting Dates
• Spring Meeting Returns to Boston!
• Boston
• Program
• Special Sessions
• Something for Students
• Something for Everyone
• Abstract Submissions
• Program Committee
• Travel Support
• Pre-Meeting Workshop: Workshop on Ostracode Biology, Ecology and Paleoecology and Shell Chemistry
• For More Information

The Geochemical Society (GS) is a non-profit scientific society founded to encourage the application of chemistry to the solution of geological and cosmological problems. GS membership is international and diverse in background and encompasses such fields as organic geochemistry, high and low-temperature geochemistry, petrology, meteoritics, fluid-rock interaction, and isotope geochemistry.

The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) provides a forum for individuals interested in mineralogy, crystallography, and petrology.

Hotel information will be published in February 1999. Hotel rooms sold out early in 1998, so reservations should be made promptly to ensure your hotel choice.

Boston is also a city rich in history, culture, and excitement. Boston's role in shaping American history is unique among all other cities. People are eager to see the places where the American Revolution was conceived and began; from the Boston Tea Party Ship to the Old North Church, history is on every corner in Boston. Boston's many museums, concert halls, theatres, nightclubs, and shopping areas are always buzzing with activity. With a wide array of diverse and interesting attractions, visitors to Boston are never at a loss for something to do.

You may contribute to the success of this meeting by suggesting special meeting topics or sessions, submitting an abstract, and attending the meeting. This meeting will cover topics on all areas of geophysical sciences, and therefore contributed papers on any topic in geophysics are encouraged. Because of the close ties between many aspects of geophysics, special steps are being taken to facilitate sessions involving multiple sections. These include the scheduling of Union sessions and the joint sponsorship of sessions by multiple sections.

Don't miss this chance to attend scientific sessions targeting your specific needs and interests and to meet with your colleagues to review the latest developments in your field.

Please note that special sessions should in no way constrain the submission of other papers on any geophysics-related topic.

• Outstanding Student Paper Awards: All first-author students presenting a paper are eligible to win. Winners receive certificates and have their photographs and bios published in Eos. For more information, wsinghateh@agu.org

• Travel Support: Application Deadline is March 1, 1999. Two different programs will provide a limited number of travel grants for AGU members. All applicants must submit an abstract on which they are the first author or presenter. To be eligible for consideration, the applicants must have paid their dues for 1999.
  For more information, please contact Wynetta Singhateh by E-mail: wsinghateh@agu.org or call 1-800-966-2481 or +1-202-462-6910, ext. 310.

  
  

  • Student Van Pool/Car Pool Program
  AGU is allocating funds to assist students to attend and participate in the Spring Meeting. Travel grants will assist groups of four or more students who are willing to van pool or car pool to Boston. Tentative support rates (dependent upon number of applications received) will be $.31 per mile round-trip, with a minimum round-trip distance of 200 miles, and a maximum grant of $300.00. Applications are due April 17, 1999.

  Preference will be given to (1) groups traveling with larger number of passengers, (2) those traveling from further distances, and (3) a geographical distribution of institutions.

  Students are encouraged to apply to their academic departments for matching travel grants to provide further assistance to attend the Spring Meeting.

  Print the Student Van Pool/Carpool Application, complete, and return to AGU by April 17, 1999.

  For more information, please contact the AGU Meetings Department, Tel: 1-800-966-2481 or +1-202-462-6910, ext. 215, Fax: +1-202-328-0566.

  • Registration Discounts: Students receive a reduced registration fee to the meeting, and AGU student members pay even less! To request an AGU membership application and information, e-mail: service@agu.org or call 1-800-966-2481 or +1-202-462-6900.

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  Something for Everyone In addition to providing an exciting scientific program and excellent networking opportunities, the 1999 Spring Meeting will offer these benefits:
  • Job Center, to enhance job-hunting skills and strategies.
  • On-Site Child Care Service, located in the convention center, for a nominal fee.
  • Section Events, for increased contacts with your colleagues.
  • Agency Night, an opportunity to meet and talk with Federal agency representatives.
  • Honors Ceremony, to pay tribute to 1999 AGU medalists and fellows.
  • Exhibits, including AGU books and products.
  • Geophysical Information for Teachers (GIFT) workshop.
  • Press Briefings, opportunities to communicate science to a wider audience.
  • Optional tours and activities in and around the Boston area.

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  Abstract Submission Information

  General Information

  The Abstract Submission deadline has now passed. We are no longer accepting submissions or revisions. Please refer to the abstract submission statistics for more information.
  

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  Program Committee Meeting Chairman, Carol Simpson (U), Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215 USA, Phone: +1-617-353-2532, Fax: +1-617-353-3290, E-mail: csimpson@bu.edu

  Atmospheric Sciences (A): Kenneth P. Bowman, Department of Meteorology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3150 USA, Phone: +1-409-862-4060, Fax: +1-409-862-4466, E-mail: k-bowman@tamu.edu

  Geodesy (G), Erricos C. Pavlis, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MC 926, Space Geodesy Branch, Greenbelt, MD 20771-0001 USA, Phone: +1-301-286-4880, Fax: +1-301-286-1760, E-mail: epavlis@helmert.gsfc.nasa.gov *(see below)

  Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism (GP), John A. Tarduno, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, 227 Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627 USA, Phone: +1-716-275-2410, Fax: +1-716-244-5689, E-mail: john@earth.rochester.edu

  Geochemical Society (GS), Bill McDonough, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, Phone: +1-617-496-2010, Fax: +1-617-496-0434 or +1-617-495-8839, E-mail: mcdonough@eps.harvard.edu

  Hydrology (H), Gerilynn R. Moline, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2008, MS-6400, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6400 USA; Tel: +1-423-576-5134; Fax: +1-423-574-7420; E-mail: g21@ornl.gov

  Mineralogical Society of America (M), Pamela C. Burnley, Department of Geology, Georgia State University, 340 Kell
  Hall, 24 Peachtree Center Ave., Atlanta, GA 30303 USA, Phone: +1-404-651-2700 or 2272, Fax: +1-404-651-1376, E-mail: burnley@gsu.edu

  Ocean Sciences (OS): Paul A. Baker, Department of Geology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0227 USA, Phone: +1-919-684-6450, Fax: +1-919-286-0357, E-mail: pbaker@geo.duke.edu

  Planetary Sciences (P):Jim Garvin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 921, Greenbelt, MD 20771-0001 USA; Tel: +1-301-286-6569; E-mail: garvin@denali.gsfc.nasa.gov; Section Committee Member: Laurie A. Leshin, Department of Geology, PO Box 871404, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA, Phone: +1-602-965-0796, Fax: +1-602-965-8102, E-mail: laurie.leshin@asu.edu

  Seismology (S), Robert Van der Hilst, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Room 54-514, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA, Phone: +1-617-253-6977, Fax: +1-617-253-7651, E-mail: hilst@mit.edu

  Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA), Chair: William C. Feldman (SH), Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D-466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA, Phone: +1-505-667-7372, Fax: +1-505-665-7395, E-mail: wfeldman@lanl.gov; Section Committee Members: Thomas Cravens (SA), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA, Phone: +1-785-864-4739, Fax: +1-785-864-5262, E-mail: cravens@kuphsx.phsx.ukans.edu; and Terrance G. Onsager, (SM) NOAA R/E/SE, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303 USA, Phone: +1-303-497-5713, Fax: +1-303-497-3645, E-mail: tonsager@sec.noaa.gov

  Tectonophysics (T), Chair: Carolyn Ruppel, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Old C E Building, Atlanta, GA 30332-0340 USA, Phone: +1-404-894-0231, Fax: +1-404-894-5638, E-mail: cdr@piedmont.eas.gatech.edu *(see below) (
  

  Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology (V), James Brenan, Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences Centre, 22 Russell St., Toronto, ON MS5 3B1, CANADA, Phone: +1-416-978-0281, Fax: +1-416-978-3938, E-mail: brenan@zircon.geology.utoronto.ca *(see below)

  *Mineral and Rock Physics: The sections of G, T, and V are including a member of the Mineral and Rock Physics Technical Committee to assist in planning some sessions. Pamela C. Burnley is a subcommittee member for these sections and will be organizing sessions related specifically to rock and mineral physics: Pamela C. Burnley, Department of Geology, Georgia State University, 340 Kell Hall, 24 Peachtree Center Ave., Atlanta, GA 30303 USA, Phone: +1-404-651-2700 or 2272, Fax: +1-404-651-1376, E-mail:
  burnley@gsu.edu

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  Travel Support AGU travel grants are available for graduate students, doctoral candidates, and young scientists (birth date after Dec. 31, 1964).
  

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  Pre-Meeting Workshop: Workshop on Ostracode Biology, Ecology and Paleoecology and Shell Chemistry Workshop on Ostracode Biology, Ecology and Paleoecology and Shell Chemistry
  An introduction for those interested in paleoenvironmental reconstruction and biogenic calcite
  geochemistry.
  Monday, May 31, 1999
  10:00am-5:30pm
  J.B. Hynes Convention Center, Room 105
  900 Boylston Street
  Boston, Massachusetts
  This workshop will consist of a series of presentations by invited speakers who are experts on Ostracoda. The aim is to inform participants on many aspects of the ostracodes that are to enhance the quality of data gathering and ostracode shell chemistry interpretation.

  This workshop is to serve as an introduction to the AGU special session OS02, Foraminiferal and Ostracode Shell Chemistry: Innovations and Applications to Paleoclimatology, which has been scheduled as Sessions OS22C (Tuesday, June 1, 1:30pm) and OS31A (Wednesday, June 2, 8:30am) during which comparison between foraminifer and ostracode shell chemistry is to be addressed.

  The workshop is principally aimed at non-ostracode workers. The program is listed below.[It is also hoped that the proceedings of the workshop will eventually be published in the style of short SEPM courses/notes].

  PROGRAM
  Registration desk is open at 9.30am. No fees will be charged, and abstracts of all presentations will be made available for free.

  10.00-10.05 Cronin, T. De Deckker, P. & Holmes, J. Introduction to the workshop.
  10.05-10.20 De Deckker, P. General introduction to ostracode biology of use for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Plus video demonstration on ostracode dissection.
  10.20-10.30 Holmes, J. A guide to ostracode identification and relevant literature.
  10.30-10.40 Smith, A. Identification of North American non-marine ostracodes - a link with
  the web.
  10.40-11.00 Ito, E. & Wansard, G. Culturing ostracodes

  11.00-11.20 BREAK

  11.20-11.50 Horne, D. J. Ecology of marine ostracodes.
  11.50-12.10 De Deckker, P. Ecology of non- marine ostracodes.
  12.10-12.40 Smith, A. Continental water chemistry and ostracode distribution.

  12.40- 14.00 LUNCH and EXAMINATION OF POSTER DISPLAYS

  14.00-14.20 Cronin, T. Oceanic water masses and ostracode distribution.
  14.20-14.40 Horne, D. J. Estuarine environments and ostracode faunas.
  14.40-14.55 De Deckker, P. Paleoenvironments and preservation of non-marine ostracodes.
  14.55-15.10 Cronin, T. Paleoenvironments and preservation of marine ostracodes.
  15.10-15.30 Holmes, J. Review of ostracode shell chemistry.

  15.30-16.00 BREAK and EXAMINATION OF POSTER DISPLAYS

  16.00-16.15 Ito, E. Trace elements and stable isotopes in non-marine ostracodes.
  16.15-16.30 Dwyer, G. Trace elements in marine ostracodes.
  16.30-16.50 von Grafenstein, U. Stable isotopes in non-marine ostracodes - a link to climate
  and hydrology
  16.50-17.00 Didie, C. Stable isotopes in marine ostracodes - a comparison with benthic foraminifers.
  17.00-17.20 Open discussion - all participants of the workshop
  17.20-17.30 Concluding remarks by organisers [Cronin, De Deckker and Holmes]

  Please contact the workshop organisers for additional information:
  Patrick DeDeckker, Geology, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia, E-mail: Patrick.DeDeckker@anu.edu.au; Thomas Cronin, USGS, Mail Stop 955, National Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA, Tel: +1-703-648-6363, Fax: +1-703-648-6032, E-mail: tcronin@usgs.gov; and Jonathan Holmes, Geography, University of Kingston, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE, UK, E-mail: j.holmes@kingston.ac.uk

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