When most people think of December they think of the holiday season. Earth and planetary scientists, however, think of the gathering of the year -- the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. The AGU Fall Meeting is gigantic. I don't know the exact numbers, but something like 30,000 Earth scientists congregate for a week every December to share the latest results on everything from the core of the Earth to planetary bodies outside the solar system, and everything in between. Every sphere is represented -- litho, hydro, cryo, bio, atmo, magneto, iono, and more! It's marvelous.
A handful of big news stories will come out of the AGU meeting -- usually something climate-related these days -- that will be written/blogged about by everyone and their brother. Those stories will be easy to keep track of. But, the other >99% of the science will go largely unnoticed unless you attend the meeting or keep track of those blogging and/or tweeting (#AGU10). So, if you are into this stuff, bookmark those blogs and put #AGU10 in your saved searches on Twitter. This will be the first of (hopefully) many posts from me over the next couple of weeks (the technical program is Dec 13-17).
Below is a (very long) list of technical sessions I want to check out this year. I'm interested in how the processes and patterns on the Earth's surface are preserved in the geologic record, so the majority of what I list below falls into that theme. There is a lot of geomorphology and sedimentary stuff in here with some tectonics thrown in for good measure. I've organized it by day and by oral or poster session. This is a bit of a 'wish list' because there's no way I'll be able to attend all of this.
Monday:
oral
- T11G: The Wilson Cycle Revisited: From Microplates and Mobile Terranes to Supercontinent Dispersals I (8:00-10:00am, 2011 Moscone West)
posters
- OS13E: __Submarine Landslides: Characterization, Processes and Their Sedimentary Record I __(1:40-6:00pm, Moscone South)
- OS13C: __Ocean Exploration II __(1:40-6:00pm, Moscone South) [coauthor on a poster in this session]
- T13A: __From Sediment Inputs to Seismogenesis at Subduction Zones I __(1:40-6:00pm)
Tuesday:
oral
- OS21H: __Submarine Landslides: Characterization, Processes and Their Sedimentary Record II __(8:00-10:00am, 3007 Moscone West)
- EP21D: __Coastal Geomorphology and Morphodynamics: Bridging Event and Long-Term Processes I __(310 Moscone South, 8:00-10:00am)
- OS22A: Quantifying Event-Scale Landscape Change I (10:20am-12:20pm, 310 Moscone South)
- OS22A: Carbon System Dynamics in Large River-Dominated Coastal Margins I (10:20am-12:20pm, 3014 Moscone West)
- OS22C: __Submarine Landslides: Characterization, Processes and Their Sedimentary Record III __(10:20am-12:20pm, 3007 Moscone West)
- T22B: __From Sediment Inputs to Seismogenesis at Subduction Zones II __(10:20am-12:20pm, 2018 Moscone West)
- EP23C: Quantifying Present and Ancient Rates of Earth Surface Processes I (1:40-3:40pm, 310 Moscone South)
- T23E: From Sediment Inputs to Seismogenesis at Subduction Zones III (1:40-3:40pm, 2018 Moscone West)
- EP24B: The Morphodynamics of Big Rivers: What Do and Don’t We Know? I (4:00-6:00pm, 308 Moscone South)
posters
- EP21A: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes I: Planetary, Eolian, Remote Sensing (posters, 8:00am-12:20pm)
- EP21B: Linking Life to Landscape Dynamics (8:00am-12:20pm)
- EP21C: Megaflooding: Causes, Processes, and Effects (8:00am-12:20pm)
- EP23A: Coastal Geomorphology and Morphodynamics: Bridging Event and Long-Term Processes II (1:40-6:00pm)
- EP23B: Quantifying Event-Scale Landscape Change II (1:40-6:00pm)
Wednesday:
oral
- EP31D: __Coastal Geomorphology and Morphodynamics: Bridging Event and Long-Term Processes III __(8:00-10:00am, 310 Moscone South)
- EP31E: From Turbulence to Channel Pattern I (8:00-10:00am, 308 Moscone South)
- EP32B: Physical and Chemical Consequences of Extreme Events at the Earth Surface I (10:20am-12:20pm, 310 Moscone South)
- EP32A: __Advances in the Systematics of Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides I __(10:20am-12:20pm, 308 Moscone South)
- EP33D: __Quantifying Present and Ancient Rates of Earth Surface Processes II __(1:40-3:40pm, 310 Moscone South)
- OS34B: Tidal Flats: Hydrodynamics and Sedimentary Processes II (4:00-6:00pm, 3009 Moscone West)
- EP34A: The Influence of Rock Material Properties on Landscape Morphodynamics I (4:00-6:00pm, 310 Moscone South)
posters
- EP31A: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes II: Sediment Transport and Flux (8:00-12:20pm)
- OS31A: Carbon System Dynamics in Large River-Dominated Coastal Margins II (8:00am-12:20pm)
- EP31C: The Morphodynamics of Big Rivers: What Do and Don’t We Know? II (8:00am-12:20pm)
- OS31C: Tidal Flats: Hydrodynamics and Sedimentary Processes I (8:00am-12:20pm)
- EP33A: Advances in Systematics of Terrestrial Cosmognenic Nuclides II (1:40-6:00)
- EP33C: Physical and Chemical Consequences of Extreme Events at the Earth Surface II (1:40-6:00pm)
Thursday:
oral
- H41J: __Stochastic Transport and Emergent Scaling on the Earth’s Surface I __(8:00-10:00am, 3020 Moscone West)
- OS42B: Tsunami and Storm Deposits Onshore and Offshore: Processes and Products II (10:20am-12:20pm, 3009 Moscone West)
- EP42A: Advances in Critical Zone Research: Interactions Among Water, Rock, and Life at Earth’s Surface I (10:20am-12:20pm, 310 Moscone South)
- EP43F: __Morphogenesis, From Microscale Experiments to Landscape Dynamics I __(1:40-3:40pm, 310 Moscone South)
- EP44B:__ LiDAR for Analysis of Earth-Surface Processes__ I (4:00-6:00pm, 307 Moscone South)
- EP44C: __Morphogenesis, From Microscale Experiments to Landscape Dynamics II __(1:40-3:40pm, 310 Moscone South)
poster
- EP41C: __Quantifying Present and Ancient Rates of Earth Surface Processes III __(8:00am-12:20pm)
- EP43A: Advances in Critical Zone Research: Interactions Among Water, Rock, and Life at Earth’s Surface II (1:40-6:00pm)
- EP43B: Does Size Matter? Does Local Count? The Role of Extrafluvial Events in River and Landscape Evolution (1:40-6:00pm)
- EP43C: Fluvial Morphology and Past Climate on Mars (1:40-6:00pm)
Friday:
oral
- OS51F: __Turbulence, Mixing, and Multiscale Interactions in Rivers and Estuaries I __(8:00-10:00am, 3010 Moscone West)
- EP51F: Advances in Monitoring Fluvial Morphodynamics I (8:00-10:00am, 309 Moscone South)
- EP51G: Transient Landscapes: Capturing Responses to Changing Boundary Conditions I (8:00-10:00am, 310 Moscone South)
- EP52A: Transient Landscapes: Capturing Responses to Changing Boundary Conditions II (10:20am-12:20pm, 310 Moscone South)
- EP54A: __Source to Sink Insights Into Integrated Sedimentary System Evolution II __(4:00-6:00pm, 310 Moscone South)
poster
- EP51B: __Earth and Planetary Surface Processes IV: Submarine, Coastal, Misc __(8:00am-12:20pm)
- EP51C: From Turbulence to Channel Pattern II (8:00am-12:20pm)
- EP51D: LiDAR for Analysis of Earth-Surface Processes II (8:00am-12:20pm)
- EP51E: __Morphogenesis, From Microscale Experiments to Landscape Dynamics III __(8:00am-12:20pm)
- H51E: Stochastic Transport and Emergent Scaling on the Earth’s Surface II (8:00am-12:20pm)
- OS53C: __Turbulence, Mixing, and Multiscale Interactions in Rivers and Estuaries II __(1:40-6:00pm)
- EP53A: Advances in Monitoring Fluvial Morphodynamics II (1:40-6:00pm)
- EP53C: Source to Sink Insights Into Integrated Sedimentary System Evolution I (1:40-6:00pm) [my poster is in this session]
- EP53D: __Transient Landscapes: Capturing Responses to Changing Boundary Conditions III __(1:40-6:00pm)
