Highly Allochthonous at AGU

It’s that time of year again! The AGU Fall Meeting: where downtown San Francisco suddenly becomes infested with tens of people carrying poster tubes enthusiastically muttering such incomprehensible terms as ‘kinematic’ and ‘hyporheic’ (image below courtesy of the AGU).

Both of us are going to be wandering around the Moscone Centre for some part of the week, although not, for the most part, at the same time.

Anne is attending from Monday until Thursday morning. She is giving a talk on Wednesday morning:

• H31L-08. Transient Storage versus Hyporheic Exchange in Low-gradient Headwater Streams.
• Time: Wednesday 9:45-10:00 AM
• Place: Room 3018, Moscone West
• Session: Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions: Physical, Biological, and Chemical Relevance.

And co-chairing a session on Thursday morning:

• H41N – Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions: Physical, Biological, and Chemical Relevance.
• Time: Thursday 8:00-10:00 AM
• Place: Room 3018, Moscone West

And although she is not there, she is a coauthor (with colleagues back at UNC in North Carolina) on a student poster.

• H51C-1198: Water and Nutrient Export Patterns of Urban Watersheds with Stormwater Control Measures.
• Time: Friday, 8:00-12:20 pm
• Place: Hall A-C, Moscone South
• Session: Chemical, Isotopic, and Chronologic Tracers to Understand the Fate and Transport of Nutrients in Watersheds.

Chris is arriving late Wednesday afternoon and will be at the conference Thursday and Friday. Unfortunately, this means he will miss his grad student Matt Harding’s poster session on Wednesday morning:

• T31C-2521: The influence of pre-existing basement structures on salt tectonics in the Upper Silurian Salina Group, Appalachian Basin, NE Pennsylvania: results from 3D seismic analysis and analogue modelling.
• Time: Wednesday, 8-12:20 pm
• Place: Hall A-C, Moscone South
• Session: Geodynamic Modeling of Lithosphere Deformation: Advances and Challenges.

Matt is investigating the effect of pre-existing basement topography on salt tectonics during the Appalachian orogeny, and Chris encourages you swung by to ask him some (friendly!) questions.

Chris is also giving a talk late on Thursday afternoon:

• T44C-08: Signals of dynamic coupling between mantle and lithosphere beneath the axis of the East Pacific Rise.
• Time: Thursday, 5:45-6:00 pm
• Place: Room 302, Moscone South
• Session: Linking Earth Surface Dynamics and Deep Tectonic Processes.

Of course, AGU is as much about bumping into people in the corridors and poster halls as formal presentations. Hopefully, we’ll see some of you around the place.

Chris enjoying AGU. Beer optional. Image: American Geophysical Union (but obviously fair use, I’d say).