Today marks of the start of the annual American Geophysical Union meeting, where over 20,000 geoscientists descend on downtown San Francisco to talk shop. I will be attending the meeting, but I won't get there until Thursday (tight schedule this year for a number of reasons). When I am there, I'll be busy - presenting a poster on my research into ancient rhyolite calderas in the Mineral King area of the Sierra Nevada of California and chairing a session of talks on Friday morning entitled "