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Online Briefings At AAAS To Feature New Research On Oceans; Discussion With Leaders Of Large Hadron Collider And International Space Station

Washington, DC - January 16, 1999 -New research on the impact of coral reef disease, human health risks in the ocean, and a discussion with CERN and NASA leaders of two international science projects - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the International Space Station (ISS) - will be featured in live broadcasts on the Internet during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) January 21-26 in Anaheim, California.

The briefings will be accessible only by reporters and public information officers who are registered users of EurekAlert!. Users will be able to submit questions to the participants online. Each briefing will last approximately one hour. The briefings are a first-time experiment for AAAS and we will seek feedback from the online audience.

The schedule for the briefings follows:

FRIDAY, January 22nd
Embargoed until briefing begins at 7:45 a.m. (PST), 10:45 a.m. (EST)

Topic: Health Risks and Diseases of the Ocean

Gerardo Vasta, Center of Marine Biotechnology James W. Porter,
University of Georgia
Joan B. Rose, University of South Florida

SATURDAY, January 23rd
Embargoed until briefing begins at
8:00 a.m. (PST), 11:00 a.m. (EST)

Topic: Big Science: Large Hadron Collider/International Space Station

C.H. Llewellyn-Smith, University College London and CERN Peter Rosen, U.S. Department of Energy Arnauld E. Nicogossian, National Aeronautics and Space Administration TBA, Russian Space Agency

To download information about the briefings and load the necessary plug-in to access the briefing, go to: http://www.eurekalert.org/restricted/reporters/AAASAM/a
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Contact: Ellen Cooper
ecooper@aaas.org
714-703-0122
American Association for the Advancement of Science
23-Jan-1999


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