AGU Fall Meeting media tip sheet
The following is a list of potentially newsworthy research being presented at the 2015 Fall Meeting selected by
AGU’s public information office:
Monday 14 December:
AGU-EGU Great Debate on “Cities adaptation and mitigation to climate change”
8:00 – 10:00 A.M.
Moscone South, 102
What is the origin of carbonate rich chevron dunes in southern Madagascar?
8:00 A.M. – 12:20 P.M.
Moscone South, Poster Hall
V-type NEAs: Impacts and close encounters with terrestrial planets
8:00 A.M. – 12:20 P.M.
Moscone South, Poster Hall
What’s the big deal about the Anthropocene?
10:20 A.M. – 12:20 P.M.
Moscone South, 102
Impacts of aerosols on the retreat of the Sierra Nevada glaciers in California
1:40 – 6:00 P.M.
Moscone South, Poster Hall
A conversation with DJ Patil, Chief Data Scientist of the United States
6:15 – 7:15 P.M.
Moscone South, 104
Tuesday 15 December:
AGU-EGU Great Debate on “Sustainable development of the Arctic”
8:00 – 10:00 A.M.
Moscone South, 102
Extreme weather in a changing climate
1:45 – 2:35 P.M.
Moscone West, 2022-2024
Thin Ice – Biopolar super interglacials and our possible future
2:45 – 3:35 P.M.
Moscone West, 2022-2024
Wednesday 16 December:
Late-breaking Town Hall - The Earth from a million miles: Advancing Earth observations from L1
12:30 – 1:30 P.M.
Moscone West, 2022-2024
Forward focused ethics – What is the role of scientific societies in responding to harassment and other workplace
climate issues?
12:30 – 1:30 P.M.
Moscone South, 102
Benthic gouge marks in the Canadian Beaufort Sea: Associations between whales and methane seeps?
1:40 – 6:00 P.M.
Moscone South, Poster Hall
Smoke in the city: How often and where does smoke impact summertime ozone in the United States?
1:40 – 6:00 P.M.
Moscone South, Poster Hall
Thursday 17 December:
When and how did plate tectonics begin, what came before, and why is this controversy important for
understanding the Earth?
8:00 – 10:00 A.M.
Moscone South, 102
Development of mobile sensor for volcanic observation “HOMURA”: Test campaign at Kirishima Iwo-yama, SW
Japan
1:40 – 6:00 P.M.
Moscone South, Poster Hall
Total human-caused global ocean heat uptake nearly doubles during recent surface warming hiatus
2:25 – 2:40 P.M.
Moscone West, 3009
Is peak oil dead and what does it mean for climate change?
4:00 – 6:00 P.M.
Moscone South, 102
Friday 18 December:
Hydrogeothermal convective circulation model for the formation of the Chicxulub Ring of Cenotes in the Yucatan
Peninsula, Mexico
1:40 – 6:00 P.M.
Moscone South, Poster Hall
Massive ice layer formed by refreezing of ice-shelf surface melt ponds: Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1:40 – 6:00 P.M.
Moscone South, Poster Hall
Museum preserved bivalves as indicators of long-term trends in methylmercury concentrations
2:55 – 3:10 P.M.
Moscone West, 3003