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Cornelia Kwiatkowski
Report of GLOMAR PhD student Cornelia Kwiatkowski about her participation in the AGU 2015 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California, USA from 14 – 18 December 2015
The annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is the largest meeting for Earth and Space sciences in the world taking place in in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. In 2015, almost 24,000 participants contributed to more than 1700 sessions with more than 23,000 oral and poster presentations. Also various formal and informal networking and career advancement opportunities e.g. a session chair training or international receptions were offered. In the exhibition hall, 300 exhibitors presented research tools and services but also Universities gave insights into their departments, study programs and graduate schools.
An online program guides you through the meeting and informs you where and when the most important talks and posters are scheduled. Oral presentations take usually 15 minutes including discussion and a session usually contains 8 talks. The posters are presented for the whole day whereby the poster session takes 4.5 hours either in the morning or in the afternoon. You can sign up via email for a student poster award beforehand. Within the email you confirm a certain time window (2 hours) in which you have to stay at your poster and the referees will pass by during that time. You will get the referee`s comments approx. 2 months after the AGU. Although you might not win an award, it might help to improve your presentation skills.
I presented a poster entitled “ Hydroclimatic variations in the Makassar Strait over the past 5,000 years“ in the session “Advanced Understanding of Tropical Hydroclimate Changes during the Last Pleistocene and Holocene “ (Abstract). A lot of discussions took place either in front of the posters or after the talks which helped a lot to further develop my story but also to get in touch with other scientists from all over the world.
In the evenings, usually social events take place like the ice breaker, a cinema evening or planetary lectures or award events followed by receptions with food and drinks. Here you can meet the famous scientists of your field of research in a casual environment. Some highlights are also during lunch time e.g. the Emiliani Lecture or a talk which was given by Al Gore in 2015.
An online program guides you through the meeting and informs you where and when the most important talks and posters are scheduled. Oral presentations take usually 15 minutes including discussion and a session usually contains 8 talks. The posters are presented for the whole day whereby the poster session takes 4.5 hours either in the morning or in the afternoon. You can sign up via email for a student poster award beforehand. Within the email you confirm a certain time window (2 hours) in which you have to stay at your poster and the referees will pass by during that time. You will get the referee`s comments approx. 2 months after the AGU. Although you might not win an award, it might help to improve your presentation skills.
I presented a poster entitled “ Hydroclimatic variations in the Makassar Strait over the past 5,000 years“ in the session “Advanced Understanding of Tropical Hydroclimate Changes during the Last Pleistocene and Holocene “ (Abstract). A lot of discussions took place either in front of the posters or after the talks which helped a lot to further develop my story but also to get in touch with other scientists from all over the world.
In the evenings, usually social events take place like the ice breaker, a cinema evening or planetary lectures or award events followed by receptions with food and drinks. Here you can meet the famous scientists of your field of research in a casual environment. Some highlights are also during lunch time e.g. the Emiliani Lecture or a talk which was given by Al Gore in 2015.
