Following are the names of participants in various press events held at Spring Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, May 26-29. This advisory should be read in conjunction with AGU Release 98-15 of May 15, which describes these events, and other advisories issued earlier. The information herein is subject to change. All sessions listed below are in the Briefing Room, Room 111 of the Hynes Convention Center.
Please note that in most instances, only one person, the presenter, will make opening remarks, limited to a maximum of 15 minutes. The panelists' role is to answer questions in their respective areas of expertise from members of the media.
Tuesday, May 26
| 12:15 PM | 1998: The Year of the Ocean |
| Presenter: | Dr. Bonnie McGregor, Associate Director, U.S. Geological Survey |
| 3:30 PM | The Global Impact of El Niño on the Earth System |
| Presenter: | Dr. David A. Salstein, Principal Scientist and Manager, Circulation Diagnostics Group, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. |
| Panelists: | Chester F. Ropelewski, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction |
| Byron D. Tapley, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Jean O. Dickey, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
| John M. Gipson, NVI, Inc. | |
| Barbara Kolaczek, Space Research Center of the PAS, Warsaw |
| 7:00 PM | Earthquakes: can Boston survive the big one? |
| Presenter: | Dr. John Ebel, Director, Weston Observatory, Boston college |
| 10:30 AM | The geodynamo: how does Earth produce its magnetic field? |
| Presenter: | Dr. Gary A, Glatzmaier, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Panelists: | Rob Coe, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Margaret Kivelson, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| David J. Stevenson, California Institute of Technology | |
| Cary B. Forest, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 12:15 PM | The Mars Global Surveyor Mission |
| Presenter: | Dr. Arden Albee, MGS Project Scientist, California Institute of Technology |
| Panelists: | Michael Malin, Malin Space Science Systems |
| Philip R. Christensen, Arizona state University | |
| Mario H. Acuna, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| M. David Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| G. Leonard Tyler, Stanford University |
Thursday, May 28
| 12:15 PM | Cleaning up polluted ground water: can nature outdo technology? |
| Presenter: | Kathryn M. Hess, Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Marlborough, Mass. |
| Panelists: | Richard L. Smith, U.S. Geological Survey |
| Douglas B. Kent, U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Denis R. LeLeBlanc, U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Barbara A. Bekins, U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Robert P. Eganhous, U.S. Geological Survey | |
| C. Ronald Yuen, Argonne National Laboratory | |
| Miles E. Denham, Westinghouse Savannah River Company | |
| Todd H. Wiedemeir, Parsons Engineering Science, Inc. | |
| Lucas A. Hellerich, University of Connecticut, Storrs | |
| Jeffrey A. Lackovic, University of Connecticut, Storrs |
| 1:30 PM | Do auroras recognize coastlines? |
| Presenter: | Dr. Louis A. Frank, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa |
| Panelists: | Tuija I. Pulkkinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki |
| Michael Mendillo, Boston University | |
| Gordon Rostoker, University of Alberta, Edmonton |
| 3:30 PM | Gathering scientific data in the harshest climate on Earth |
| Presenter: | Dr. Louis J. Lanzerotti, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies |
| Panelists: | Theodore J. Rosenberg, University of Maryland, College Park |
| Roger L. Arnoldy, University of New Hampshire, Durham | |
| John H. Doolittle, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center |
Friday, May 29
| 9:30 AM | TRACE: The latest news from the Sun, available to everyone |
| Presenter: | Dr. Alan Title, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center |