AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA

03-Dec-2012 through 07-Dec-2012

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will hold its 2012 Fall Meeting at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA from December 3-7, 2012.   Details are on the conference website.  NASA will hold several Town Hall meetings during the AGU conference.  All times are Pacific Time (PT).

• Tuesday, Dec. 4, 12:30-1:30 pm PT, NASA Town Hall - Science Highlights and Future Plans
• Thursday, Dec. 6, 12:30-1:30 pm PT, NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall Meeting
• Thursday, Dec. 6, 12:30-1:30 pm PT, NASA Heliophysics Town Hall Meeting
• Thursday, Dec. 6, 12:30 - 1:30 pm PT, NASA Operation IceBridge Open Town Hall Meeting

A complete list of all the Town Hall meetings is at this section of the AGU 2012 meeting website.

Several public lectures also will be held.   Two that may be of particular interest are:

• Sunday, Dec. 2, 12:00-1:00 pm PT, Curiosity Driven Mars Exploration
• Monday, Dec. 3, 12:30-1:30 pm PT, AGU Presidential Forum -- Ira Flatow, NPR Science

Another lecture of interest, the Van Allen Lecture, will be presented by Daniel Baker, Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), who chaired the recent National Research Council Decadal Survey on solar and space physics (heliophysics). 

• Wednesday, Dec. 5, 4:00-5:00 pm PT, Magnetospheric Exploration: Basic Resarch with a High Public Purpose

And then there are press conferences, which will be streamed live at http://live.projectionnet.com/agupress/fm2012.aspx.   Some of particular note are:

• Monday, Dec. 3, 9:00 am PT -- Mars Rover Curiosity's Investigations in Gale Crater
• Monday, Dec, 3, 12:30 pm PT - Voyager
• Tuesday, Dec. 4, 8:00 am PT -- NASA's Van Allen Probes (formerly Radiation Belt Storm Probes)
• Tuesday, Dec. 4, 10:30 am PT -- Mars Rover Opportunity's Investigations at Endeavour Crater
• Wednesday, Dec. 5, 9:00 am PT -- NASA's Lunar Twins-GRAIL First Science Results

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