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I by no means am offering solutions to this. Instead I hope readers in the comments will help out by posting their past experiences with this situation and detailing how they've handled it. That said, I need your help to make this post work! First, my poster experience. My poster session at #AGU11 went really well. I was at my poster for the full four hours and never got a chance to leave. I was talking the whole time and getting great, positive feedback on my research, and some ideas of where to take it further.  One gentleman did attack my work. The primary discrepancy came in the fact that he disagreed with outcrop features that I had interpreted as being cross-cutting. He had not personally been to the outcrop, but it was difficult to continue the discussion into the more interesting parts of my research because he would continually cut me off with "that's not cross cutting." Basic outcrop information that I had gotten across to everyone before (and after) w...

My posting rate has dropped dramatically in the past weeks. After AGU I headed down to Santa Cruz and couch surfed for a week before finally making my way to San Luis Obispo to be home for the holidays. I'll hold myself back from talking about all the awesome Mexican food and beer I've been consuming... Progress on my manuscript has been short coming. Gotta say it's hard to keep working when it's so nice out and a friend calls up to go hiking/drinking/riding/shooting/ect. Also, finally got a new laptop to replace my dying Dell machine. So now photoshop and illustrator are back online to work on figures. In short, by the end of today I want to have my discussion section finished, and hopefully figures updated. Will go hiking up Bishop's Peak as a break/tantime/exercise.

The above talk titled: "Great Earthquake Ruptures in the Age of Seismo-Geodesy" is given by Professor Thorne Lay of UC Santa Cruz. As an undergraduate freshman at UCSC, I took Thorne Lay's intro GE course Earth Catastrophes. It was your generic GenEd course geared to students of all majors. My major was then undeclared. Thorne Lay's lecturing style greatly impressed me. I never missed a single lecture; they were always, engaging, insightful, and fun. By the end of my Freshman year I had declared as an Earth and Planetary Science major. Thorne Lay's course had been pivotal in interesting me in geology. He is one of the better lecturers I can think of and even if you do not study earthquakes or geology, it is very informative and enjoyable. The lecture begins at 5 min.

What is this? Come see my poster! (via C. Rowe. ) The purpose of this post is simply some shameless self promotion for my poster tomorrow morning. Come say Hi and see some incredible photos from one of the best kept(maybe) secrets along the California coast.  I'm presenting my work on the Panther Beach Injectite complex. Come see some incredible "lava lamp" structures that WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! Not kidding. I'll even tell you how to get to the outcrop if you plan on staying in California after the conference. I'll be located in the EP 31C aisle. 

Holy crap, AGU is here and in full swing. The morning kicked off with a bracing cup of Peet's Coffee and then morning talks. Everything went by so damn fast. Post lunch I went to see the Simon Winchester keynote address. First (before the speech) there was a rigid speech by the AGU President Michael McPhaden introducing the AGU meeting. Then followed a hilarious welcome to San Francisco video and a welcome message from the Mayor, Edwin Lee. Finally Simon Winchester got up to give his talk. He told us that he hoped no one in the front row had tomatoes. I was really hoping he would use this opportunity to address many of the issues brought up regarding his News Week article "The Scariest Quake is Yet to Come" . Instead he chose to focus on inspirations for his latest novel. Although a great story teller, I felt recounting his inspirations fell flat in light of more important issues. Before the Q&A session began after his speech. He did give some explanation for the wri...