Date

Sessions on the use of "Virtual Globes"
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2006 Fall Meeting
11-15 December 2006
San Francisco, California

Abstract Submission Deadlines:
Friday, 1 September 2006 (mail)
Thursday, 7 September 2006 (online)

For information on AGU 2006, please see:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm06/


The following special sessions on the use of "Virtual Globes" in Earth
Sciences will take place at this year's American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Fall Meeting:

Education and Human Resources
Session ED 21: The Use of Internet-Based Virtual Globes in the Earth
Sciences
Conveners: Nolan, Bailey
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm06/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=529

Earth and Space Science Informatics
Session IN 21: Geoscience Applications in Virtual Globes
Conveners: Bailey, Dehn, Blair
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm06/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=255

The goals of these sessions include:

  • Bringing together Earth scientists, educators, and related individuals
    who are currently using or planning to use VGs in support of their work,
    to exchange ideas and insight. Conveners are particularly interested in
    uses of VGs as natural hazards monitoring/mitigation tools, and for
    environmental concerns.

  • The introduction of VGs to Earth scientists unfamiliar with their
    abilities and demonstration of possible applications.

  • Establishing links between users and developers of VGs to promote
    integration of the needs of the Earth science community into these
    programs.

For the education session, conveners are especially soliciting
presentations related to IPY, and with the permission of the conveners
of ED 12, recommend that if you would like to make an IPY educational
presentation that makes use of Virtual Globes, that our session is more
appropriate due to the special format we have arranged for our sessions,
as described below.

All presentations in the Informatics section will be given using a novel
form of poster presentation. These will take place in the poster display
area, but AGU has agreed to set up a special area for our session where
presenters will be able to post a full-sized poster AND use a video
projector to display their work on an adjacent 3'x4' space. High-speed
Internet and video projectors will be provided. The Educational session
is expected to be a mixture of standard length talks and poster
demonstrations in this same special poster venue. Please note that
organizers are not yet guaranteed an oral session and that AGU's
conference guidelines allow for two first-author presentations as
standard non-invited submissions if one is within an educational
session.

Please contact any of the following conveners with questions regarding
Virtual Globes at AGU:
John Bailey, jbailey [at] arsc.edu
Matt Nolan, matt.nolan [at] uaf.edu
Jon Dehn, jdehn [at] gi.alaska.edu
Luke Blair, lblair [at] usgs.gov