For Immediate Release:
November 5, 1997

Contact: John Sanders
at (202) 777-7507
jsanders@agu.org

MEDIA ADVISORY

American Geophysical Union Meeting
San Francisco, California
December 8-12

The 1997 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union will be held at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Monday through Friday, December 8-12, 1997. More than 6,000 papers and poster sessions will be presented during the five-day meeting.

Many of the sessions have been structured to promote interdisciplinary understanding of the processes and structure of the Earth, planets, and space. The annual meeting provides journalists with the latest scientific findings in Earth and space science research, and offers direct access to the experts. Nearly 7,500 of the world's leading geophysicists attended last year's Fall Meeting.

Highlights of the 1997 Fall Meeting include presentations on:

• Climate System History and Dynamics
• The Greenland Ice Sheet: Glaciology, Geophysics, and Climate
• New Insights Into Mantle Structure and Dynamics
• Hazard Mitigation: Use of Real-Time Information
• Mars Pathfinder I: First Results From the Surface of Mars in 20 Years
• First Results From the NEAR and Mars Global Surveyor Missions
• Climate Change Detection and Attribution
• Climate and Ozone Depletion
• Scientific Uncertainty in the Assessment of Global Change
• Consequences of the 1997-98 El Nino for Human Health
• Transient Deformation Along Active Fault Systems
• Global Ionospheric Nowcasting/Forecasting
• The Use of GPS in the Study of Subduction Zones
• True Polar Wander, Paleomagnetism, and Mantle Convection
• Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico: Causes, Effects, and Cures
• 1997 Floods in North America
• The Sacramento River System: Management, Hydrodynamics, and Environment
• The Dynamics and Consequences of Abrupt Global Warming at the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary
• Climate-Ocean Dynamics During the Holocene and Last Interglacial
• Earthquake Ground Motion
• Aeronomy and Dynamics of the Mesosphere and Thermosphere From UARS I
• Establishing Metrics for the National Space Weather Program
• Mysteries of the High-Latitude Solar Wind
• Solar Cycle 23: Minimum and Future Implications
• Neotectonics, Coastal Archaeology and Sea-Level Variations
• Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism

The Fall Meeting program and electronically-submitted abstracts are now available on the AGU web site. The URL for web site's top page is http://www.agu.org. To go directly to the Fall meeting section, use www.agu.org/meetings/fm97top.html. This easy-to-navigate section offers a searchable index and other valuable tools to help journalists prepare for the meeting.

FREE REGISTRATION is offered to the working media. This includes free meeting registration, abstract volume, meeting program, and Press Room privileges. Registered media have access to all scientific sessions as well as the press briefings. Media may also schedule use of the Press Briefing Room for interviews.

TO REGISTER and receive an advance copy of the meeting abstracts, return the News Media Registration Form to the AGU Public Information Office by Nov. 27, 1997. Media may also register at the meeting in the Press Room and pick up all information materials at that time.

HOUSING INFORMATION is available. Individuals are responsible for making their own hotel reservations.

SCHEDULE
November 20, 1997		Abstracts mailed to preregistered media.
November 26, 1997		Distribution of preliminary Press Briefing schedule.
December 8, 1997		Press Room opens at 7:30 a.m.
December 9-11, 1997		Press Room open daily 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
December 12, 1997		Press Room closes at 5 p.m.

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