So, as usual, the annual AGU meeting has been incredibly busy. When I first started attending the meeting, I was able to go to lots of talks and posters and hopefully learn a lot about what people are doing in geology. These days, the meeting is getting subsumed with being a professional in the field - meetings, conferences, receptions ~ along with catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. This is not to say that the meeting is any better or worse than it was when I first started attending, but sometimes I do miss the ability to just go see the research.
However, all is not lost! I have seen/heard a lot of cool stuff and here are some highlights from Days 1 and 2 here at AGU 2010:
Intraoceanic felsic magma: I stopped in on a talk by Dr. Robert Stern - one of the gurus ...