Welcome!
The 2010 Joint Assembly, the first in South America, is being organized by the American Geophysical Union together with other Latin American societies.
This “Meeting of the Americas” will cover the latest topics in all areas of the Earth, Oceans, Atmospheric, Space and Planetary Sciences.
AGU "Meeting of the Americas" receives 2858 papers
To discuss the latest scientific developments in all branches of the Earth Sciences, the AGU "Meeting of the Americas" will take place on August, 8 - 12 in Foz do Iguaçu.
2,858 papers were received in the areas of geophysics and tectonics, atmospheric sciences and global change, oceanography, hydrology, space science and planetology.
There will be 1,485 oral presentations and 290-380 posters per day (total of 1,373 posters). Besides the usual technical sessions, there will be three main lectures of general interest:
1) Oceanography: "Synchronous shifts in precipitation tied to the location of the thermal equator" by Wallace Broecker of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, USA.
2) Atmospheric Science: "Impacts of Climate Change in South America" by Carlos Nobre, INPE / MCT, São José dos Campos, Brazil.
3) Tectonics: "Mid-Cretaceous Plate Reorganization and Present Day, Major Orogenic Systems" by Ruben Somoza, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Three round tables (“Town Hall meetings”) will complement the scientific program:
a) "International Geosciences Initiative" organized by John Hess (Geol. Soc. of America) to discuss the major issues and challenges in Global Geology.
b) "Natural Hazards in Latin America" organized by Jaime Urrutia (UNAM, Mexico) to discuss how science can help society to reduce the risks of natural disasters (earthquakes, landslides, etc.)
c) "Outstanding Problems of the Lithosphere in South America", organized by Larry Brown (Cornell University, USA) and Reinhardt Fuck (UnB) to discuss the most important sites for future multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary deep geophysical projects, especially in Brazil.
Two pre-congress tours, "the Paraná Magmatic Province" coordinated by Leila Marques (IAG-USP) and the “LBA BioGeoscience site in Manaus”, and a post-congress, "Impact Craters in Basalts" coordinated by Alvaro Crosta (Unicamp ) are receiving applications in a
www.geophysics2010.org/trips
On Sunday, August 8th, there will be four pre-conference courses:
1) "Paleomagnetism" taught by Lisa Tauxe (California, San Diego)
2) "GIFT - Geophysics for Teachers" coordinated by Michael Passow (Earth2Class), Celso Carneiro (Unicamp) and Nísia Krush (FURG)
3) "Seismic Processing with GêBR", coordinated by Ricardo Biloti (Unicamp), and
4) " Earth System Data Access" coordinated by Tom Yoksas (UCAR, USA) with collaboration by Waldênio de Almeida (INPE, Brazil), Luis Farfan (CICEs, Mexico) and Guilherme Chagas (U. Aveiro, Portugal).
Registration for courses can be made in
www.geophysics2010.org/courses.htm
A summary of the scientific program with daily sessions (oral and posters) will be on the AGU website in July. However, each participant can look at the daily schedule of their areas of interest and make their own itinerary online at :
www.agu.org/meetings/ja10/program/personal
Register online and see all details, including Program on the AGU website:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja10/ 
