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Press Conferences at

European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2008
Vienna, Austria, 13 – 18 April 2008

The following press conferences are definitive. We expect a few more, so please check for updates regularly here>> .

Monday, 14 April 2008	10:00–11:00	UN International Year of Planet Earth (in German)	Gerald Ganssen; Dick van der Wateren; Christian Mutschlechner; Thomas Hofmann
Monday, 14 April 2008	14:00–15:00	Will the world's mountains still quench our thirst in 50 years?	Wouter Buytaert; Carmen De Jong; Philip Mote; Daniel Viviroli
Tuesday, 15 April 2008	09:00–10:00	Will Planet Earth become Planet Ocean?	Svetlana Jevrejeva; Philip Woodworth; Lesley Rickards; Simon Holgate; Mark Tamisea; Robert Nerem
	10:00–11:00	Outer planets and satellites	Athena Coustenis; Hunter Waite; Ralf Jaumann
	11:00–12:00	Greenhouse climates in the past: what the past can tell us about our future	Henk Brinkhuis; James Zachos; Appy Sluijs; A. Winguth
	14:00–15:00	State of the Cryosphere: what's up with the ice?
	15:00–16:00	The International Polar Year 2007-2008	Marco Tedesco; Robert Bindschadler; Ted Scambos; Charles Zender
	16:00–17:00	Artificial Snow: Quo vadis?	Carmen de Jong; Luca Cetara; Christian Rixen; Ulrich Strasser
Wednesday, 16 April 2008	09:00–10:00	ANDRILL – drilling into Antarctica's dynamic past	Tim Naish; Fabio Florindo; Richard Levy; David Harwood
	10:00–11:00	Venus Express – the second year	Hakan Svedhem; Fred Taylor; Dmitri Titov
	11:00–12:00	Cosmic Vision: great questions in the Solar System and how to answer them
	12:00–13:00	CARBOOCEAN: How much man-made CO₂ can the ocean absorb?	Ute Schuster; Marion Gehlen; Christoph Heinze
	15:00–16:00	Tsunamis	Stefano Tinti
Thursday, 17 April 2008	10:00–11:00	Carbonate production from reefs and platforms: biotic and abiotic controls	Christian Dullo; Luis Pomar
	12:00–13:00	Drilling into the seismogenic zone: latest results from NanTroSEIZE	Masataka Kinoshita; Harold Tobin
	14:00–15:00	Astrobiology, Mars and robotic exploration	Frances Westall

Science writers and public information officers of all nations are welcome to attend this conference.

Looking forward to see you in the Press Centre.

Dick, Jacobijn, Anne, Thomas.

EGU Today

Press Conferences at

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008 Vienna, Austria, 13 – 18 April 2008

European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2008
Vienna, Austria, 13 – 18 April 2008