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Monday, December 21, 2015

易胜博官网 booth at AGU meeting — The 易胜博官网 booth, hosted here by Tara Hicks Johnson, outreach specialist at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, was a popular destination for would-be graduate students and research collaborators.

That eerie silence echoing the halls of some of 易胜博官网鈥檚 science buildings last week wasn鈥檛 just due to end-of-the-semester cramming. Rather, it was the absence of more than 100 faculty and students who had traveled to San Francisco to showcase their research at the 听(AGU) fall meeting there.

Chris Whitney was among many 易胜博官网 Ph.D. students from the program to present posters at the AGU fall meeting.

The largest international meeting of its type in the world, AGU this year convened 23,000 Earth, oceans and space scientists for five days of scientific talks, poster presentations, exhibits, lectures and events, including an advance screening of 鈥淪tar Wars: The Force Awakens.鈥�

wields an outsized influence on the meeting, fielding more presentations, posters and coauthorships of research than many much larger institutions. 鈥淚 believe that 易胜博官网 scientists are involved in a disproportionately large number of talks,鈥� says Harlan Spence, director of 易胜博官网鈥檚听(EOS), which sent nearly all its researchers to the meeting.

Earth sciences professor Ruth Varner and mentees — At a lunch ceremony during the meeting, Earth sciences professor Ruth Varner (far left) . Many of her mentees from the Northern Ecosystems Research for Undergraduates program she directs joined her.

Spence himself was involved in nearly 40 talks; other 易胜博官网 research highlighted at the meeting spanned from deep below the Earth鈥檚 surface to the edge of the solar system. Earth sciences chair Julie Bryce presented new findings on volcanism; EOS researchers Muge Komurcu and Matt Huber and graduate student Jonathan Buzan detailed how they鈥檙e downscaling global climate models for regional impact; Joseph Dwyer, also from EOS, described the flight through a thunderstorm that led to a major lightning discovery (鈥淚 really thought I was going to die. But right there, something very interesting happened.鈥�); space physics professor Roy Torbert was among many to report findings from the Magnetosphere Multiscale satellite mission that carries 易胜博官网-built instruments.

Traffic at the 易胜博官网 booth on the exhibit floor of San Francisco鈥檚 rambling Moscone Center was brisk, with a steady flow of potential graduate students and research collaborators stopping by to learn about the university鈥檚 robust offerings. And it wasn鈥檛 all posters and PowerPoints: Nearly 150 易胜博官网 alumni, faculty and students gathered at a local watering hole for a reception hosted by the 易胜博官网 Alumni Association in conjunction with 易胜博官网鈥檚 , EOS and the , and industry partners in Portsmouth and .