Workshop Program Overview
Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM)

Program Overview
La Jolla, CA, 10 - 13 March 1998

Contents

Scientific Program
Modeling Short Course
How to get here
Ice Breaker, Registration
Contact with the Outside World
Poster Presentations
Food/Drinks/Entertainment
Acknowledgements
Overview Program

The Scientific Program

The Final Program is now completed and can be found on this web page, in summary form, and as a Daily Program elsewhere. The daily program includes all program details for keynotes, discussions, posters, locations and various social events. I particular, we wish to draw your attention to an "abstract of an abstract" for each keynote, and a series of potential discussion topics for each subsequent discussion period. We chose to distribute this information now to give you a flavor of what will happen at the meeting and to allow you to prepare for the discussions: Consider bringing relevant overheads, or add key points to the discussion. Pick the most appropriate session, and submit your request to the respective discussion leaders. If you see mistakes, omissions or any other problems in the program, please let us know. We will be happy to correct it and adjust. If you cannot join us at the workshop, please feel free to submit your comments in writing and we will be happy to accommodate.

Modeling Short Course Participants

Please be there, bright and early, if possible around 8:30, lectures will begin at 9:00. We will make sure that there are coffee and donuts, and you might want to take some time to get acquainted with the computers, to meet Francis Albarede and Lou Derry who volunteered to help out with one-on-one instructions. There will be two to three persons per computer (Suns and Macs).

How to Get Here

You will find a set of maps on the IGPP website that show you how to get to the Sea Lodge and the meeting rooms. Most of you will probably come in by plane, and the most convenient way to get to the Sea Lodge is by airport shuttle. The company "Cloud 9", offers a special rate of $12 for delivery to the Sea Lodge, a Taxi is close to $35. There are usually some Cloud 9 shuttles outside the airport terminal. At the hotel, you will find a GERM bulletin board with additional maps and a program.

Beginning Wednesday morning 7:45, we will operate a shuttle from the hotel to IGPP. Please note that the shuttle will need about 15-20 minutes round trip and it can take only 12 people. The shuttle will begin operating at 7:45 from the hotel. The walk to IGPP will take only 20 minutes and it is very pleasant (unless El Nino hits us again). Unfortunately, the unusually high El Nino tides in the mornings of the meeting will make it a bit challenging to walk along the beach without getting your feet wet. For this reason, you may decide to walk along the road, once you reach the Northern end of the public beach at La Jolla Shores.

Ice Breaker, Registration

We hope to get most of the registrations out of our way on Tuesday evening, during the Icebreaker, beginning at 5 p.m. in the western portion of Munk Laboratory of the Ida and Cecil Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. There will be signs and posters, and lots of people who can show you the way. Come and look around early, if you wish. Wednesday and Thursday mornings we will have a registration desk at Hubbs Hall.

Contact with the Outside World

During the GERM workshop, participants will be able to read their E-mail (using Sun Work stations of Macintosh/Eudora). At the workshop, we will hand out log-in information. We will also monitor the GERM E-mail (germbiz@igpp.ucsd.edu) for messages. Please use the Sea Lodge for telephone contact and messages (phone 619 459 8271; fax 619 456 9346).

Poster Presentations

The poster sessions will be in the Western portion of the major hallway of Munk Laboratories (top floor). Poster boards are 4 feet tall and 6 feet wide. You will find a note with the titles on the poster boards. There are poster boards on the Northern or Southern side of the hallway, and posters are assigned alphabetically going West to East. If you wish to bring an unscheduled poster, let us know and we will try to make additional space. Feel free to put up the Wednesday posters during the Icebreaker on Tuesday, but make sure to take it down after the session on Wednesday. Thursday posters can go up first thing that morning. Feel free to remove the Wednesday poster if its author did not get around to remove it (there will be rubber bands available to rolling it up).

Food/Drinks/Entertainment

Included in your registration fees are donuts, coffee and tea in the morning, and during coffee breaks, a catered lunch, and drinks and appetizers during the icebreaker and the wine and cheese parties. There will be a final party and dinner at Lisa Tauxe and Hubert Staudigel's house on Friday night.

Acknowledgements

During the past few weeks, we benefited a great deal from the help of several people at IGPP. You will meet many of them during the workshop and rely on their help.

• Many of you have already corresponded with Esther ("germbiz") Yoon who is the core of GERM planning and organization. During the workshop, she will help with registration, and any other organizational matters. She will be there during the morning and late afternoon hours of each conference day.
• The first person you probably will meet will be Phil Janney, postdoc at SIO and participant in the workshop. He will be in charge of the UCSD van - shuttle operation between the hotel and IGPP.
• We will also have the help of Atis (Karlisson) Muehlenbachs, UCSD student who is currently helping us with GERM. He will help with audiovisual equipment.
• We also had great support of the IGPP net-ops, Chris Garrod, Edward Riesgo and Patrick Russo. They helped us with the setup of the Apollo room for the short course and will give you a hand if you need help in getting to your E-mail.
• Luciana Astiz has been a great help with the catering.
• We also had lots of support from the IGPP front office, in particular Christina Seabern and Liz Gil, and Arlene Jacobs. Much of the Graphics support came from Breck Betts.
• Last not least, we want to acknowledge the support of the IGPP community who is cheering us on and putting up with some workshop related inconveniences.
• Funding for the workshop came mostly from the National Science Foundation (CSEDI program), with additional sponsorship of SIO, IGPP and Micromass Instruments.
• We are all looking forward to having you here in La Jolla!

Best regards,
Hubert Staudigel, Bill McDonough, and Henry Shaw.

Final Program

Also see the Detailed Program. All sessions take place in Hubbs Hall.

* The Parallel Group sessions provide a forum for developing the respective GERM web pages and discussions of the auxiliary databases that are available for reservoirs.