Blogging the American Geophysical Union Meeting - I
About 19,000 registered attendees last year at the American Geophysical Union meeting at the Moscone center in San Francisco, and probably 22,000+ attendees this year. The problem is, how do you accomodate all those scientists who want to present their research? The answer (at least it has been for a couple of decades) is poster presentations. This solution now looks like it has gotten to its obvious overwhelming stage -- thousands of posters every day in a cavernous poster hall. My poster was number 2518, the image below is about 1/5 of the poster hall.
There is no way any of us can absorb all this information!
About OpenHazards Bloggers
Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at
the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz. He specializes in the quantification and simulation of
natural hazards. Read Steve's blog.
John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics
and Geology at UC Davis and
the Executive Director of the APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations. He
chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southern California Earthquake Center from 1994 to 1996. Read John's blog.