WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Spring Meeting returns to Boston this year from June 1 to 4, immediately following the Memorial Day weekend. Sponsored by AGU, the Geochemical Society, and the Mineralogical Society of America, it will offer a broad range of special sessions, many of which will be newsworthy. Just a small sampling of topics:

• Yucca Mountain: The Future High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository?
  
• Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change
  
• Earth's Deep Interior and Surface Observations: How Are They Linked and What Can We Learn?
  
• Contaminated Groundwater and Litigation: Lessons From the Woburn [Mass.] Case
  
• Saving Our Coasts
  
• Infrasound and Monitoring the CTBT [Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty]
  
• Advances in GPS [Global Positioning System] Science and Technology for the Study of Global Change and Natural Hazards Phenomena
  
• The South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX)
  
• Urban Emissions and Atmospheric Chemistry
  
• The Magnetic Fields of Solar System Planets and Moons: New Insights and Unanswered Questions
  
• Carbon Sequestration and Biogeochemistry of Soils
  
• The Scientific Basis of Water Quality Monitoring
  
• Recent Advances in Underwater Vehicle Technology
  
• Human Response to Global Change: The Past as a Guide to the Future
  
• The Near-Earth Asteroid Rendevous Mission: A First Look at 433 Eros
  
• Latest Results From Mars Global Surveyor
  
• The Earth in Context: Why Are Our Neighboring Planets So Different?
  
• Space Weather - Observations, Models, and Products
  
• Tectonic Evolution of the Himalayas and Tibet
  

We will, of course, arrange a series of press conferences and other events for media representatives to help you get the most out of Spring Meeting. These will be announced later. A subsequent Media Advisory will permit advance registration by journalists and public information officers.

It is not too soon to reserve a hotel room in Boston, and this may be done now online: http://www.passkey.com/events/agu/aguatt.html.