Serendipity

I’ve just been browsing the sessions for the AGU Fall Meeting, to be held in San Francisco in December. Abstracts are due by September 3. The following sessions caught my attention:

• ED12: Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Facilitate Science Communications. (We could submit an abstract describing some of the tools we’ve been building);
• GC03: Methodologies of Climate Model Confirmation and Interpretation (A great place for Jon to present the results of his study on how climate scientists come to trust their code)
• IN06: The Management and Dissemination of Earth and Space Science Models (Another chance for me to talk about the findings from my Hadley study)
• IN07: Earth Science Software Reuse: Experiences and Challenges (lots of things I could say, but probably not enough material for a real abstract)
• IN11: Challenges in Achieving Earth System Model Interoperability (One for Carolyn’s work)
• IN13: Emerging Issues in e-Science: Collaboration, Provenance, and the Ethics of Data (I’d want to hang out at this one and hear what people have to say; might be a good place for Alicia to present her work too)
• IN17: Data and Informatics for Environmental Decision Making (ditto)

Plus some sessions that sound generally interesting:

• A44: Towards a Policy-Relevant, Open and Transparent Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Information System (GHGIS) (Sounds like a fascinating requirements analysis project)
• ED07: Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Education (relevant to the stuff Jon and I were talking about earlier this year on climate models as educational tools)
• IN12: Semantic eScience (because I’m a sucker for social epistemology)