Note: For background information on 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting and important information on booking hotels at preferred rates (deadline: 20 January 2006), see Media Advisory 1: http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl0541.html

1. Abstracts and Sessions Now Online and Searchable

All 372 sessions and 3,460 abstracts for 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting have been posted on the AGU web site.

A. Searching for Abstracts of Interest to You

Abstracts may be accessed by a search tool:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/waisos06adv.html

Reporters and public information officers may search for abstracts of particular interest to them, by looking up any the following parameters on the search tool above:

• Name of a scientist
• Name of an institution (e.g., university, government agency)
• Geographic location (e.g., city, state, province, or country)
• Topic (e.g., whale, thermohaline, climate)

Up to three search parameters may be combined. Full instructions are available from the search page.

Hint: In searching for abstracts from an institution, it is often more effective to search by e-mail address than by the name of the institution. The latter may be written in different ways by various authors (e.g., UCLA; University of California, Los Angeles; Univ. of Cal. at Los Angeles; etc.), but all of their e-mail addresses will presumably include "ucla." The search category "Affiliation" covers names of institutions, their locations, and e-mail domains (e.g., look under Affiliation for Columbia, New York, or @columbia.edu).

The CD of abstracts and the program of the meeting will be available in the Press Room, but not in advance of
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Contact: Harvey Leifert
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American Geophysical Union
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