Scientific Program

• Burn Your Own Meeting CD
• Meeting-at-a-Glance: All sessions for the 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting are listed first by Section/Discipline and then by date within each section.
• Personal Meeting Itinerary: Select the sessions and events you plan to attend. Save, revise, and e-mail your itinerary to yourself or others.
• Scientific Abstracts: Search the complete 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Database.
• Sessions by Section

Presenting Authors & Session Chairs

Presenting Authors and Session Chairs: please review the information page containing details regarding your oral or poster session. Additional information will be posted as details become available.

Oral Sessions

There are three 2-hour blocks of oral sessions and a daily 1-hour Plenary Session on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

• Morning: 0830h–1030h, 1100h–1200h
• Afternoon: 1330h–1530h, 1600h–1800h

On Friday, oral session times are as follows:

• Morning: 0830h–1030h, 1100h–1300h

Oral Sessions location: Mezzanine Level, Cairns Convention Centre

Poster Sessions

Poster sessions are scheduled 1800h–1930h on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Poster sessions are active for a 1.5 hour period. Authors are asked to put up displays on Tuesday morning, 29 July and leave the posters on display until Thursday evening, 31 July at 1800h, for maximum viewing opportunity. You must be present at your poster for at least one hour during the allocated session time.

Poster Sessions location: Hall B, Exhibition Level, Cairns Convention Centre

Plenary Sessions

The following daily plenary sessions will be held 1100h – 1200h in the Convention Centre's Hall A, Mezzanine Level.

Tuesday, 29 July

U22A Space Weather Effects in the Upper Atmosphere
Presented by G. W. Proelss, Universitaet Bonn

U22B Ice-Sheet Mass Balance Observed by GRACE Twin-Satellite Mission Data
Presented by C. K. Shum, Ohio State University

Wednesday, 30 July

U32A BLUElink: Ocean Forecasting Australia
Presented by A. Schiller, CSIRO

U32B The Oceans and Climate Change
Presented by M. H. England, The University of New South Wales

Thursday, 31 July

U42A Four Years After the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake: Are There Things We Haven't Learned?
Presented by P. R. Cummins, Australian National University

Abstract Data

• Alphabetic List of Abstracts Submitted to Date
• Abstract Submission Statistics

Program Committee