One thing I’ve been doing in free moments since the end of the AGU Fall Meeting is catching up on what cool science other geobloggers who attended the meeting had unearthed whilst wandering the poster hall and lecture halls. Below are all the posts I’ve found in my feeds about the meeting. This is probably not a totally comprehensive list, so feel free to point me at anything I’ve missed in the comments.
Overview posts
- Four Days At The AGU-The World’s Biggest Science Meeting | Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal
- AGU: Twenty Thousand Geeks by the Sea | KQED QUEST
- Wrap-up of the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting | Clastic Detritus
Monday
- AGU Day One: The Early Earth | About Geology
- AGU Day One: Press Conferences | About Geology
- Dispatch from AGU: Watch out, the next tsunami could be a small one | Climate Abyss
- Dispatch from AGU: Parameter estimation and climate change | Climate Abyss
- Dispatch from AGU: Probable maximum precipitation becoming more probable | Climate Abyss
- Dispatch from AGU: This week’s “wow” statistic | Climate Abyss
- AGU day 1 | Emily Erratic
- Cloudy with a chance of earthquakes | Geospace
- On a mission to get under Europa’s skin | Geospace
- Got arsenic? Social disparities in drinking water quality | Geospace
- Growing with the flow: Stream currents shape microbial communities | Geospace
- Volcanic bridges across the abyss | Geospace
- Antarctic ice streams start and stop as they slide | Geospace
- Dino eggshells crack the case of a Cretaceous environment | Geospace
- Doubling virtual carbon dioxide provides insight into atmospheric interactions | Geospace
- Monday at AGU | Highly Allochthonous
- AGU 1: Landslide characterisation and forecasting | The Landslide Blog
- AGU 2 – Simon Winchester | The Landslide Blog
- AGU 3: Great Disasters of the 21st Century | The Landslide Blog
- AGU 2011: Days 0 & 1 | Magma Cum Laude
- AGU 2011, day 1 | Mountain Beltway
- From the 2011 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU): Voyager 1 at the edge of the solar system | The Planetary Society Blog
- AGU 2011: Day 1 | Realclimate
- Lightning strikes us at AGU. | Riparian Rap
- AGU Day One, we dodge lightning. | Riparian Rap
- Monday Morning, coming down… 85 down ? 1000 to go… Rivers of Air… Proxy Fruvious? | Scatterings
- Well got through 500 posters today, more rambles within from agu11 | Scatterings
- AGU2011: What Would Pristine Air Mean for the Climate? | What on Earth
- AGU2011: How Satellites Can Fill the Gaps in Air Quality Maps | What on Earth
- AGU 2011: New Map of Antarctica’s Rock Bed | What on Earth
Tuesday
- AGU Day Two: Vesta Unveiled | About Geology
- Dispatch from AGU: An equable climate curveball | Climate Abyss
- Dispatch from AGU: Another way we change the world | Climate Abyss
- Dispatch from AGU: The trouble with shortcuts to climate sensitivity | Climate Abyss
- AGU days 2 and 3 | Emily Erratic
- Extreme-living microbes take carbon from the air | Geospace
- Scientists simulate explosive volcanic eruptions in the lab | Geospace
- Japanese megaquake triggered tiny California tremors | Geospace
- Nutrients and bacteria surf the internal waves of Huntington Beach | Geospace
- Drilling to tell a tsunami tale | Geospace
- Breaking the hydro-illogical cycle | Geospace
- Exoplanets with plate tectonics, better odds for life like Earth’s | Geospace
- Tuesday at AGU | Highly Allochthonous
- AGU days 2 and 3: some notable talks | The Landslide Blog
- AGU 2011: Day 2 | Magma Cum Laude
- AGU 2011, day 2 | Mountain Beltway
- Notes on Dawn at Vesta from the 2011 American Geophysical Union meeting | The Planetary Society Blog
- Good news, everyone: We’re getting as good at space weather forecasts as we are at Earth weather forecasts | The Planetary Society Blog
- AGU 2011: Day 2 | Realclimate
- AGU Day Two. Wow! | Riparian Rap
- ComicCon for Geoscience Day 2: The Crow’s take on the Bjerkes Charney Atmospheric Science talks at agu11 | Scatterings
- My Tuesday afternoon poster/talk summary from agu11. Did you see the IR spectrum of the pork loin chop? | Scatterings
- AGU2011: How Shifting Storm Tracks Are Amplifying Climate Change | What on Earth
- AGU2011: New Project Aims to Predict South Asian Floods | What on Earth
- AGU2011: La Niña Responsible for a Significant Drop in Global Mean Sea Level | What on Earth
- AGU2011: Dust Storm Triggered Phytoplankton Blooms in the South China Sea | What on Earth
Wednesday
- Dispatch from AGU: Zooming in | Climate Abyss
- Dispatch from AGU: Communication | Climate Abyss
- Singing whales take center stage in seismic study | Geospace
- Surviving an acidic tide | Geospace
- Divining water using gravity | Geospace
- Photographing lava helps measure its flow from afar – safely | Geospace
- Spacecraft detects lightning on Venus | Geospace
- Wednesday at AGU | Highly Allochthonous
- AGU 2011: Day 3 | Magma Cum Laude
- Halftime report | Planetwater
- AGU Days 3 & 4 | Realclimate
- Whipple Lecture & mo’ posters.. | Scatterings
- Mid-AGU Update – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants? | Vi-Carius
- AGU2011: Airborne Particles a Threat to Himalayan Glaciers | What on Earth
Thursday
- AGU Day Four: Mercury and Landscape | About Geology
- Dispatch from AGU: Global warming and rainfall | Climate Abyss
- Dispatch from AGU: Santer says, “Do the research!” | Climate Abyss
- Dispatch from AGU: Best typo | Climate Abyss
- AGU 2011 Wrap Up: Gauging the Duration of Giant Eruptions | Eruptions
- Really cool but depressing science | Geospace
- Stealthy but slipping: Researchers reveal slow-moving landslides in southern Italy | Geospace
- Warmer weather makes some flowers late bloomers | Geospace
- Thursday and Friday at AGU | Highly Allochthonous
- Morning #agu11 Core Dump… | Scatterings
- Life hectic at agu11 ? Tell yourself that when all is calm a diapychal of an isopycnal surface points straight up | Scatterings
- AGU 2011: Less Snow Accumulating in West Antarctica | What on Earth
Friday
- Dispatch from AGU: Model validation blitz | Climate Abyss
- Last dispatch from AGU: The new CMIP5 models | Climate Abyss
- Storing carbon dioxide underground impacts microbial communities | Geospace
- Last Report from the Crow’s Nest | Scatterings
- AGU 2011: Day 5 and wrap-up | Realclimate
- Amazing last day of AGU 2011. | Riparian Rap
Lots of interesting stories there, even though it represents only a tiny fraction of all the new science that was presented during the course of the meeting. To their credit, this year AGU has also provided us with video of the keynote lectures and some sessions (one of which features my co-blogger about 40-45 minutes in), and gave people the option of putting their posters into an online repository (at least 2000 were uploaded, and mine is one of them).
One thing that stands out when looking at the blogging activity listed above is the precipitous decline in posting as the week progressed:
This is hardly a surprise; a five day conference featuring 20,000 of your scientific peers is pretty overwhelming on the first day, let alone on day 5. There’s too much cool science to see, too many people to catch up with, too little time to write about it all and still get any sleep. Even the light-hearted blog chats between Anne and I were almost too much. Maybe audio would be a better option? Either way, I think I definitely need to give any future conference dispatches slightly more descriptive titles.
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