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EGS-AGU-EUG
Joint Assembly 2003 General Information
The EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly 2003 will be held in the Nice-Acropolis Congress Center in Nice, France, from Monday-Friday, 07-11 April 2003. On Sunday, 06 April 2003, registration will start at 14:00, and there will be an open Icebreaker Reception from 18:30-20:30 in Les Muses, 3rd floor.
This Joint Assembly will be the first one of its kind, joining all geoscientists of the world into one meeting and covering all disciplines of geosciences: geology, geochemistry, geophysics and geobiology alike. More than 8.000 scientists are expected to attend this unique Mega Event with more than 500 topical sessions, Union and Educational Symposia, Short Courses and Workshops, Key Note and Medal Lectures and Townhall Meetings as well as separate meetings of working groups. This will be the largest and most prominent event in the geosciences held in Europe up to day.
In view of this importance a special press facility will be arranged for science writers and public information officers.
Press Room
The press room is located in the Foyer - Athena on the 2nd floor of the Nice-Acropolis Congress Centre, and it is opened from Monday-Friday, 07-11 April 2003. The press officers are:
Chair
| Harvey Leifert AGU Public Information Manager Phone: +1-202-777-7507 Fax: + 1-202-328-0566 E-mail: hleifert@agu.org |
Members
| Jean-Luc Leonard EGS/EGU Journalist Phone: +32-71-87-86-78 Fax: --- E-mail: jl.leonard@skynet.be |
Kostas Kourtidis EGS/EGU Newsletter Editor-in-Chief Phone: +30-310-998009 or 998156 Fax: +30-310-248602 or 283752 E-mail: kourtidi@auth.gr |
Additional secretaries will be available to assist the
participants and press officers. The press facilities include the standard
technical facilities for such events.
Press Information
The final programme of the 2003 EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly will be available on the Web from 17 February 2003 onwards. This programme will be grouped in accordance to the different research areas covered by the conference, the list of scientific sessions within an area, and the list of contributions accepted for presentation within a session. These contributions are listed by author(s), title and abstract number. A click on the abstract number will then open the abstract. Abstracts are free-to-read and free-to-download; however, the moral right of the author(s) to be identified as the authors of such abstracts in all publications is asserted.
This programme will also be available on CD-ROM both for PC and Mac users at the registration of the meeting.
The Session Conveners are invited to select those contributions of their sessions which they think that they could be of interest to the press. These contributions are compiled in the Press Abstract Overview, where the summaries can be studied and the contact coordinates of the authors can be downloaded for further requests.
Any information and/or schedule with respect to the press activities at and during the conference will be accessible from here before the conference.
Press Registration
Science writers and public information officers of all nations are welcome to attend this conference and to register in advance by 15 March 2003 at the very latest by completing and returning the Press-Pre-Registration Form. Press registration at the meeting at the opening hours of the conference office is also possible. The "press registration" is free-of-charge, and upon registration the registrant will receive his/her name badge, the programme book and the abstract CD-ROM of the conference. The name badge provides access to any of the scientific sessions of the conference as well as to the Press Room and its facilities free of extra charges.
Eligibility for press registration is limited to the following persons
Note: Representatives of publishing houses, for-profit corporations, and the business side of news media must pre-register through the normal pre-registration web site or register at the main registration desk at the conference and pay the appropriate fees.