American Geophysical Union Meeting

Not much blogging this week. I am at the annual AGU meeting in San Francisco. I blogged about this some time ago. It is the major meeting in our field. My first was in the fall of 1974. I got off the elevator at the mezzanine level of the old Jack Tar hotel and I saw a huge crowd -- maybe 300 scientists. That was 39 years ago. The meeting this week has over 25,000 attendees. It fills pretty much the entire Moscone center in San Francisco. Quite a change! Many great talks on earthquakes, climate change, typhoons, and other disasters.
About OpenHazards Bloggers
Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at
the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz. He specializes in the quantification and simulation of
natural hazards. Read Steve's blog.
John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics
and Geology at UC Davis and
the Executive Director of the APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations. He
chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southern California Earthquake Center from 1994 to 1996. Read John's blog.