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From December 3-7, 20,000 geoscientists will convene in San Francisco for the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting. Our scientists will be on hand to discuss their latest findings at more than two dozen presentations and panels covering climate prediction, disasters, public health and more.
IRI, the Earth Institute, and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory will be tweeting from the meeting using the #AGU12 hash tag. Not on Twitter? You can also check the State of the Planet blog for Q&As, stories, and social media narratives using Storify to see what our scientists are presenting and others are saying. Our first Q&A is already up with remote sensing specialist Pietro Ceccato.
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The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, a partner of IRI, wants to help farmers cope with increasingly erratic climate and weather patterns via improved information and advisory services. In a new blog post, Arame Tall and Caity Peterson ask: “What if, after all the work that goes into creating the kind of climate information services that are useful to farmers, the message never arrives? Or what if it does arrive, but is not understood when it does?”
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