The AGU annual meeting is in San Francisco next week. There are 16,000 abstracts. I used to go when there weer maybe 4000 and it was held in the Civic Center. You used to get an abstracts volume and could look through for a month before the meeting. That stopped a couple of years ago, but you would get a paper meeting volume with the schedule. Now, you get nothing; you have to figure it out on the web site (agu.org). For me, reading on a computer is work. I'll have to wait until I get my poster plotted and then try and figure out Sunday what I will see on Monday. Maybe I'll go to the zoo. I went with HD and her friends last year and saw the tiger being fed 2 weeks before it did some feeding on its own.

Last year, while doing a little Christmas shopping, we ran into someone checking the abstracts on their IPhone over the internet. We don't have this because learning to use it is like work, and we have to watch our fixed (monthly) costs.

There are all kinds of earthquake sessions, as well as tectonics, climate, etc etc. I don't think you need a password or login to browse abstracts. Maybe someone will post links to those of interest to this page.

I find the meeting a little depressing when I present a poster. Last year, I went but did not present, so it was OK (I was co-author on a couple). You work hard on your little project and like to think it is the most important stuff ever, and then there are 16,000 others and no one is interested in yours. Maybe if I did not stand there and stare at passers-by. Maybe I should bathe. Maybe the "will do research for food" sign and the little bucket with pennies in it scares people. (OK, old joke, I'm doing well this year).

Mine is on glacial (lowstand) deltas and stratigraphy along the North Anatolian fault system. I'm also on one on the Santa Barbara Channel site survey and coring, and having to provide a bunch of figures for that one. I'm on, with cast of dozens, something on Antarctic scientific drilling. I'm on (with cast of dozens) another for the North Anatolian fault system...more of a general overview of the project.
Chris