2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting
From the Watershed to the Global Ocean
2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting · 2-7 March 2008 · Orlando, Florida, USA
Co-sponsored by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, the American Geophysical Union, The Oceanography Society and the Estuarine Research Federation.
All Ocean Sciences Meeting activities including oral and poster sessions are located in the West Building of the Orange County Convention Center.
Key Dates
Author Notification
December 2007
Schedule Posted
January 2008
Registration Fees
Early: 1 February 2008
Regular: 1 March 2008
On-site: after 1 March 2008
Book of Abstracts
A final, complete book of abstracts with author index will be available by the ned of March. In the meantime, you may download the working version at http://www.aslo.org/orlando2008/files/2008osm-abstracts-wrk.pdf. The file is 7mb in size and is not yet indexed. The final version of the book will not be printed nor published on CD-Rom.
The conference web site will continue and will function as the primary archive for program, schedule, presentation and abstract information. You may browse the session listing or search the meeting abstracts.
For copies of individual presentation materials, please contact the author(s) of that particular presentation.
Program Addendum Posted
Program and schedule additions, deletions and changes have been posted to the web site as well as in an PDF document (26k) that will be available on-site. Check the schedule-at-a-glance, workshops, town hall and social events pages for updates.
Program Book Available
A downloadable version of the meeting program book (7.3mb, PDF) that will be available to registrants on-site is now available in the files section.
Program book information published to the meeting web site on 2/15/08.
New Chairs' Note
The deadline for early registration is upon us (February 1) and hotel rooms that have been held are selling out. If you have not yet registered and made your hotel reservation, please do so. We hope you will find this Ocean Sciences meeting to be interesting, informative, and exciting. Due to the tremendous abstract submission response, there will be over 3400 presentations in concurrent oral sessions during the day on Monday through Friday and exclusive poster sessions Monday through Thursday afternoons.
Public Information/Public Affairs Officers
We invite you to use the complimentary media registration! Contact the Ocean Sciences conference management office at orlando2008@sgmeet.com to secure a registration code. We regret any misunderstanding of payment of registration fees and hope that you will be able to attend the meeting.
Meeting News
02/22/08 - New postings for the Wednesday evening forum, Environmental Outreach: Does Science Really Matter? and the Thursday evening discussion with Hollywood filmmaker Randy Olson, "True Confessions: I Am an Impaired Mass Communicator."
02/15/08 - Major web site update. Program book information now published to the meeting web site.
02/08/08 - Program Book Available. A downloadable version of the meeting program book (7.3mb, PDF) that will be available to registrants on-site is now available in the files section.
01/28/08 - Sverdrup Award Lecture and the Wednesday evening Environmental Outreach Forum posted to the Special Events section.
12/31/07 - Meeting schedules now available. See the Schedule at a Glance and Session List with Schedules.
12/31/07 - Registration for media representatives is now available at http://www.agu.org/meetings/os08/os08media.html
For More Information
For more information, please contact the conference management office by e-mail at orlando2008@sgmeet.com or by phone at 800-929-ASLO or 254-399-9635.
