Notes from the AGU 2008 Fall Meeting

Posted by Alexandra Matiella Novak Dec 11, 2008

The American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting takes place every December and invites geoscientists from all over the world to attend and present their research. I'll be going this year as a representative of the National Suborbital Education and Research Center, which is a cooperative agreement between NASA and the University of North Dakota.

I've already organized my itinerary for which presentations and posters I will be viewing during the week. I'll be blogging about these presentations and sharing some of the more interesting conclusions with you. There will also be some live webcasts on some important lectures. A schedule of these webcasts can be found here.

The posters and talks I plan to go to are (*authors):

Volcanic Threat in Central America: Assessment and Comparison of Volcanic Hazards and Associated Vulnerability in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica *J L Palma, W I Rose, R Escobar POSTER

Comparison of High Temporal Resolution SO2 Emission Rates and Geophysical Data at Central American Volcanoes *P A Nadeau, G P Waite, J L Palma, M P Dalton, I M Watson POSTER

Magmatic Volatile Histories From Apatite Phenocrysts *J W Boyce, R L Hervig POSTER

The NASA ASTER Urgent Request Program: The Last Eight Plus Years of Monitoring Kamchatka's Volcanoes From Space *M Ramsey, R Wessels, J Dehn, K Duda, A Harris, M Watson

Overview of the 2004-2008 Eruption of Mount St. Helens *C A Gardner

Widespread Effects on Aviation of the 2008 Eruption of Chaiten Volcano, Chile *M Guffanti, C Benitez, M Andrioli, R Romero, T J Casadevall

A-Train satellite observations of the 2008 Chaitén eruption clouds F Prata, *S A Carn, M Fromm, N A Krotkov POSTER

Evolution and Advances in Satellite Analysis of Volcanoes *K G Dean, J Dehn, P Webley, J Bailey INVITED

Volcanic Ash Dispersion Modeling: The Puff model R Peterson, K G Dean, *P W Webley

Crater LakeEvolution During Volcanic Unrest: Case Study of the 2005 Phreatic Eruption of Santa AnaVolcano, El Salvador. *A S Colvin, W I Rose, D Escobar, E Gutierrez, F Montalvo, R Olmos, J L Palma, J C Varekamp, M Patrick

Investigation into the effect of silicate ash on the 8.6 µm sulfur dioxide retrieval in the North Pacific region *C Kearney, I M Watson POSTER

Kilauea summit activity during 2007-2008: A failed eruption and an eruption that should have failed *M P Poland, A J Sutton POSTER

Gas-Pistoning Associated With the 2008 Summit Eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i *M Patrick, D Wilson, D Fee, T Orr, D Swanson, A Sutton, T Elias POSTER

Correlating Long-Term Observations, Seismicity and Thermal Output at Fuego volcano, Guatemala: Repeating Patterns in Eruptive Behavior at an Open Vent Volcano *J J Lyons, G P Waite, W I Rose POSTER

Comparing SO₂ Emissions to Seismic and Acoustic Records: the Value and Limitations of the new UV Camera Technique *M P Dalton, G P Waite, P A Nadeau, I M Watson POSTER