AGU 2007 Fall Meeting: Media Advisory 2

Abstracts and Sessions Now Online;
Book Hotels By 9 November;
NCSWA Holiday Party–Wed., 12 December

AGU Release No. 07-23
2 November 2007

Contact: Peter Weiss
Phone: +1 202 777 7507
E-mail: pweiss@agu.org

Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California 10–14 December 2007

Contents of this message:

  1. Abstracts and Sessions now Online and Searchable
  2. Reminder: Hotel reservation deadline
  3. Field trip update
  4. NCSWA holiday dinner: Save the Date! (Wednesday, 12 December)
  5. News Media registration information
  6. News Media Registration Form
  7. Who's coming

Please see:
Media Advisory 1 for important information regarding visas for international reporters and hotel bookings at meeting rates (The deadline is 9 November 2007.): AGU 2007 Fall Meeting: Media Advisory 1

Abstracts and Sessions now Online and Searchable

All 1,186 sessions and 13,641 abstracts for the 2007 Fall Meeting have been posted on the AGU web site.

A. Searching for Abstracts of Interest to You

The 13,641 Fall Meeting abstracts may be accessed by a search tool

Reporters and public information officers may search for abstracts of particular interest to them, by looking up any the following parameters on the search tool above:

Up to three search parameters may be combined (e.g., presentations on tsunamis by NOAA scientists based in Hawaii). Full instructions are available from the search page.

Hint: In searching for abstracts from an institution, it is often more effective to search by e-mail address than by the name of the institution. The latter may be written in different ways by various authors (e.g., UCLA; University of California, Los Angeles; Univ. of Cal. at Los Angeles; etc.), but all of their e-mail addresses will presumably include "ucla." The search category "Affiliation" covers names of institutions, their locations, and e-mail domains (e.g., look under Affiliation for Columbia, New York, or @columbia.edu).

The downloadable file of the meeting abstracts and program (plus instructions for burning it onto a CD) should be available next week at the Fall Meeting program page.

Copies of CDs of the meeting abstracts and program will be available in the Press Room. Print volumes of the program will also be provided there, but not a print version of the abstracts.

B. Finding Sessions at Fall Meeting

The names, numerical designations, dates, times, and room numbers of all 1,186 sessions may be seen at: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/?content=program&show=glance.

Many sessions are sponsored jointly by two or more Sections, and Union sessions are expected to have the most interdisciplinary appeal. By clicking on the name of a Section (e.g., Planetary Science, Seismology), all of the sessions under that Section's auspices will be displayed. Clicking on any of these sessions will open a list of oral presentations or posters associated with that session. Clicking on the name of a particular presentation will open its abstract, including name and contact information for the lead author.

2. Reminder: Hotel reservation deadline

Please note that the deadline for booking hotel rooms at preferential meeting rates is 9 November.

For full information on available hotels, rates, amenities, and a map of the area, see http://www.cmrhousing.com/agu_2u/Welcome.aspx.

3. Field trip update

Plans are in progress for the Sunday, 9 December field trip to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Any field-trip participants arriving from afar are advised to be in town by Saturday, 8 December, as the field-trip bus will depart early on Sunday. The Delta encompasses a vast area of former marshland that is carved by 1,100 miles of fragile levees into agricultural fields and aqueducts. The region provides water to farms, factories, and the taps of more than 20 million Californians. Earthquakes, land subsidence, sea-level rise, and other forces threaten the area, whose levees, pumps, sunken fields, and reclamation projects are all potential stops on the all-day tour. More details in the next advisory.

4. Save the Date: NCSWA holiday dinner, Wednesday evening, 12 December

[The following notice is provided on behalf of the Northern California Science Writers Association. This is not an AGU event.]

The Northern California Science Writers Association is organizing its annual holiday party, to be held (as always) in conjunction with AGU for our out-of-town friends in science writing. The party will take place on Wednesday, 12 December, in San Francisco, within walking or cab distance from the Moscone Center. The venue is still being determined. Keep your calendar free in the evening to join your Bay Area colleagues for dinner and science-themed entertainment.

5. News Media registration information

Eligibility for press registration is limited to the following persons:

Note: Representatives of publishing houses, for-profit corporations, and the business side of news media must register at the main registration desk at the meeting and pay the appropriate fees, regardless of possession of any of the above documents. They are not accredited as Press at the meeting. Scientists who are also reporters and who are presenting at this meeting (oral or poster session) may receive News Media credentials if they qualify (see above), but must also register for the meeting and pay the appropriate fee as a presenter.

News Media registrants will receive a badge that provides access to any of the scientific sessions of Fall Meeting, as well as to the Press Room and Briefing Room. No one will be admitted without a valid badge.

Details will be provided in the next advisory about where preregistered members of the media will pick up their badges and where those who have not preregistered will be able to register onsite. In either case, please be prepared to show identification.

6. News Media Registration Form

The News Media Registration Form is set up for online submission only. Please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/?content=media&show=pressReg_online

The last day for advance News Media registration, assuring that your badge will be waiting for you when you arrive, is Friday, 30 November 2007. You may also register onsite.

7. Who's coming

As of 1 November, the following persons have pre-registered for News Media credentials : (* = confirmed for the field trip, ** = wait listed for the field trip)

Aguilera, Mario - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Alden, Andrew - About.com
Amos, Jonathan - BBC News Interactive
Anatta - NOAA
Bailey, Adriana Raudzens - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
*Bela, James - Freelance
*Berardelli, Phil - ScienceNOW
*Bergeron, Lou - Stanford News Service
Billings, Linda - NASA Astrobiology Program
Boa, Susan - Consortium for Ocean Leadership
*Bortman, Henry - Astrobiology Magazine
*Brainard, Curtis - Columbia Journalism Review
*Brown, Susan - Freelance
**Bruno, Ngoma Kutinina - Congo Reform Network
**Callan, Jamie - Freelance
*Cannon, John - UC-Santa Cruz Science Writing Program
*Carlowicz, Mike - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Chang, Alicia - Associated Press
*Chatterjee, Rhitu - Environmental Science and Technology
Chen, Allan - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Cohn, Roger - Yale Environment Online
Corsiglia, Jon - Consortium for Ocean Leadership
*D'Agostino, Michelangelo - Freelance
*Dambeck, Holger - Spiegel Online
Dance, Amber - UC Santa Cruz
Dell'Amore, Christine - National Geographic News
Digitale, Erin - UCSC Science Communication Program
Doherty, Paul - Exploratorium
*Donaldson, Leslie - KTVU
Durant, Adam - Freelance
Eason, Deborah - Freelance
Essunger, Paulina - Freelance
Fitzpatrick, Tony - Washington University
Foucart, Stephane - Le Monde
*Gorder, Pam Frost - Ohio State University
*Hanna, Raven - Freelance
Henson, Bob - UCAR/NCAR Communications
Hicks Johnson, Tara - Univ of Hawaii SOEST
Hill, Richard - The Oregonian
*Hoffman, Sarah - Freelance
Irion, Robert - UC Santa Cruz
*Jerch, Kirsten - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
**Jose Vinas, Maria - UC Santa Cruz
Joynt, Raymond - Wexford Press
K.C, Bhuwan - Nepal Press Club
*Kalaugher, Liz - Environmental Research Web
Kerr, Dick - Science
Kilinc, Attila - AGU VGP Section
Lakdawalla, Emily - The Planetary Society
*Leifert, Harvey - Freelance
Liaw, Jane - UCSC Science Communication Program
Light, Nancy - Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
*Lindsey, Emily - Freelance
Lloyd, Erica - Freelance
Lorditch, Emilie - Discoveries & Breakthroughs in Science
*Lovett, Rick - Freelance
Lubick, Naomi - ES&T
**Matzke, Nicholas - Freelance
McGuire, Patrick - College Guide News
Mejia, Robin - Freelance
Miller, Mary K. - Exploratorium
*Miller, Ryder M. - Freelance
Mintz, Cliff - Consortium for Ocean Leadership
*Molnia, Bruce F. - Freelance
Murphy, Stephanie - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
**Nakkazi, Esther - MIT Knight Science Journalism
*Nash, Madeleine - Freelance
Newton, Alicia - Nature Geoscience
Ngabo, Alexandre - Union de Presse Congolaise-RTC Butembo
O'Carroll, Cynthia - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
*Oskin, Becky - Freelance
*Perkins, Sid - Science News
*Perlman, David - San Francisco Chronicle
Rademacher, Horst - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
*Reed, Christina - Freelance
*Reilly, Michael - New Scientist
*Reisewitz, Annie - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Revkin, Andrew - New York Times
Robertson, Donald F. - Freelance
Roeder, Lynne - ARM Climate Research Facility
Santos Ballon, Massie - UCSC Student
Sasso, Anne - Freelance
Schipper, Ian - Freelance
Schmidt, Gregg M. - Consortium for Ocean Leadership
*Sever, Megan - Geotimes
Shankland, Stephen - CNET news.com
*Shwartz, Mark - Stanford University
Smith, Jesse - Science
*Stahler, Alan - KVMR-FM
Starobin, Michael - NASA
Strong-Aufhauser, Lisa - Exploratorium
Taylor, Frank - Google Earth Blog
*VanDecar, John - Nature
*Venton, Danielle A. - International Science Grid This Week
West, Krista - Freelance
Wheeler, Kevin - Consortium for Ocean Leadership
**Wu, Corinna - Freelance
*Wyckoff, Barbara - National Geographic magazine
**Zala, Krista - Freelance