1. Press conferences planned
2. Attention PIOs: Sending press releases to Joint Assembly
3. The Press Room
4. Update: Field trip to National Aquarium
5. News Media Registration Information
6. News Media Registration Form
7. Who's coming
Note: This advisory does not repeat important information from previous advisories. For links to these advisories, please go to http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja06/?content=media
1. Press conferences planned
Following is a list of press conferences in the planning stage, with the usual caveats: press conferences may be added, dropped, or changed in title or emphasis. The next advisory, shortly before Joint Assembly, will have a full description of each press conference, including names and affiliations of participants. Any changes after that will be announced in the Press Room at Joint Assembly. At present, we expect that all press conferences will be held Tuesday-Thursday, 23-25 May. Press conferences take place in the Press Briefing Room, Room 323 of the Baltimore Convention Center, adjacent to the Press Room.
2. Attention PIOs: Sending press releases to Joint Assembly
Public information officers are urged to work with scientists from their institutions to produce press releases and other materials for the media, related to their research, regardless of whether the scientists will be participating in press conferences. We suggest around 40 copies of printed materials and three copies of any video for broadcast, which should be in commercial Beta format.
The simplest way to send such materials is with the scientists themselves, asking them to drop them off in the Press Room (Room 322, Baltimore Convention Center). If that is not feasible, you may send them by overnight express service, for delivery on Monday, 23 May or after. The address will be provided in our next media advisory.
Remaining copies of press materials may be collected up to 1300h on Friday, 26 May, after which they will be scrapped.
3. The Press Room
The Press Room is Room 322 of the Baltimore Convention Center. Its phone number is +1 410-649-7373; give thus number to anyone who may have to call you there. There are additional phones for outgoing calls, at no charge to you for business calls.
If you preregistered, your News Media badge will be waiting for you in the Press Room. You may also register onsite in the Press Room (not at the main registration booths in the lobby).
The Press Room is equipped with wi-fi for use with your own laptop and also has two Internet-connected computers for shared use, with a shared printer.
Continental breakfast and lunch are served daily, Tuesday-Friday, for News Media registrants. Breakfast is 0730h. Lunch is 1130h.
4. Update: Field trip to National Aquarium
The planned field trip to the National Aquarium in Baltimore has been cancelled, due to insufficient registration.
5. News Media Registration Information
International reporters: If you are neither a citizen nor a permanent resident of the United States, you need a visa to cover meetings in the U.S. This applies also to reporters from countries in the Visa Waiver Program, who do not need visas to visit the U.S. as tourists. For current information, see the official State Department web site: http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1276.html.
Please apply for your visa early.
News Media registrants receive a badge that provides access to any of the scientific sessions of the meeting, as well as to the Press Room and Briefing Room. No one will be admitted to press conferences, sessions, or the exhibition hall without a valid badge.
News Media registrants who have preregistered will pick up their badges in the Press Room (Room 322) upon arrival at the convention center. Be prepared to show identification (see below).
If you have not preregistered, you may fill out a News Media Registration Form in the Press Room (Room 322), presenting appropriate identification (see below). Your badge will be made while you wait.
Eligibility for press registration is limited to the following persons:
Note: Representatives of publishing houses, for profit corporations, and the business side of news media must register at the main registration desk at the meeting and pay the appropriate fees, regardless of possession of any of the above documents. They are not accredited as News Media at the meeting.
Scientists who are also reporters and who are presenting at this meeting (oral or poster session) may receive News Media credentials if they qualify (see above), but must also register for the meeting and pay the appropriate fee as a presenter.
6. News Media Registration Form
The News Media Registration Form is set up for online submission, but includes a link to a version that can be printed and faxed or mailed. Go to: http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja06/?content=media&show=pressReg_online
The last day for advance News Media registration, assuring that your badge will be waiting for you when you arrive, is Monday, 15 May 2006. You may also register onsite.
7. Who's coming
The following have registered for News Media credentials as of the date of this message. If you have submitted the News Media Registration Form, but your name does not appear below, please resubmit the form (see Item 6, above).
| Last Name, | First Name | Publication/Organization |
| Achenbach, | Joel | The Washington Post |
| Amos, | Jonathan | BBC News Interactive |
| Berardelli, | Phil | SciXpress.com |
| Boyd, | Robert | Knight Ridder |
| Buckley, | Michael | Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab |
| Castelvecchi, | Davide | Inside Science News Service |
| Cole, | Steve | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Corsiglia, | Jon | Joint Oceanographic Institutions |
| Dewar, | Heather | Freelance |
| Dimick, | Dennis | National Geographic Magazine |
| Dybas, | Cheryl | National Science Foundation |
| Foust, | Jeff | The Space Review |
| Gutro, | Rob | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Hansen, | Amy | Freelance |
| Hansen, | Kathryn | Geotimes |
| Hansgardh, | Agnetha | Discoveries & Breakthroughs |
| Hanson, | Brooks | Science |
| Heineman, | Karin | Inside Science TV |
| Hotz, | Robert Lee | Los Angeles Times |
| Hyder, | James | LF Newsletter |
| Jones, | Nancy Neal | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Kerr, | Dick | Science |
| Krieger, | Kim | Freelance |
| Leck, | John | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Lee, | Carolyn | Freelance |
| Lorditch, | Emilie | Discoveries & Breakthroughs |
| Lubick, | Naomi | Environmental Science & Technology |
| Maran, | Sally | Smithsonian magazine |
| Maran, | Steve | American Astronomical Society |
| Monastersky, | Rich | Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Nijhuis, | Michelle | High Country News |
| Perkins, | Sid | Science News |
| Pratt, | Sara | Freelance |
| Rankin, | Moira | Soundprint Media Center |
| Reed, | Christina | Freelance |
| Revkin, | Andrew | The New York Times |
| Sawyer, | Kathy | Freelance |
| Schleifstein, | Mark | The Times-Picayune |
| Sever, | Megan | Geotimes |
| Siegfried, | Tom | Freelance |
| Sisler, | Wade | NASA Television |
| Vergano, | Dan | USA Today |
| Wald, | Chelsea | Science Update |
| Witze, | Alexandra | Nature |
| Yauck, | Jennifer | Johns Hopkins Univ. Journalism Student |
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