American Geophysical Union
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Media Advisory

Mark your calendar for Spring Meeting Boston, June 1-4

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Spring Meeting returns to Boston this year from June 1 to 4, immediately following the Memorial Day weekend. Sponsored by AGU, the Geochemical Society, and the Mineralogical Society of America, it will offer a broad range of special sessions, many of which will be newsworthy. Just a small sampling of topics:

• Yucca Mountain: The Future High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository?
• Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change
• Earth's Deep Interior and Surface Observations: How Are They Linked and What Can We Learn?
• Contaminated Groundwater and Litigation: Lessons From the Woburn Case
• Saving Our Coasts
• Infrasound and Monitoring the CTBT [Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty]
• Advances in GPS [Global Positioning System] Science and Technology for the Study of Global Change and Natural Hazards Phenomena
• The South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX)
• Urban Emissions and Atmospheric Chemistry
• The Magnetic Fields of Solar System Planets and Moons: New Insights and Unanswered Questions
• Carbon Sequestration and Biogeochemistry of Soils
• The Scientific Basis of Water Quality Monitoring
• Recent Advances in Underwater Vehicle Technology
• Human Response to Global Change: The Past as a Guide to the Future
• The Near-Earth Asteroid Rendevous Mission: A First Look at 433 Eros
• Latest Results From Mars Global Surveyor
• The Earth in Context: Why Are Our Neighboring Planets So Different?
• Space Weather - Observations, Models, and Products
• Tectonic Evolution of the Himalayas and Tibet

The full list of special sessions, with descriptive information about each may be found on the

AGU web site: [http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm99spss.html].

We will, of course, arrange a series of press conferences and other events for media representatives to help you get the most out of Spring Meeting. These will be announced later. A subsequent Media Advisory will permit advance registration by journalists and public information officers.

It is not too soon to reserve a hotel room in Boston, and this may be done now online at the AGU web site: [http://www.passkey.com/events/agu/aguatt.html].

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