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We are soliciting abstracts for Presentations/Posters for the following UNION </span></font>
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session at the AGU joint Assembly, 22-25 May 2007.</span></font>
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(Please note that abstracts are due no later than 1 March!)</span></font>
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Dear Colleague, </span></font>
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As you are probably aware, the upcoming 2007 Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical </span></font>
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Union will be held in Acapulco, Mexico, on May 22-25. This is the first AGU Joint Assembly </span></font>
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to be held in a Latin American country and offers an excellent opportunity for reviewing </span></font>
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the present state of knowledge on Caribbean tectonics and the related tsunami hazard, as </span></font>
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well as recent results and improvements on seismic and tsunami monitoring.</span></font>
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With this in mind, the following special session will be held in conjunction with the meeting.</span></font>
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Please contact any one of the conveners if you are interested in submitting an abstract</span></font>
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to this session.</span></font>
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Also, feel free to forward this announcement to anyone else that you think might be
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Special Session S05:  Neotectonics, Tsunami Hazard, and Monitoring in the Caribbean</span></font>
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The circum-Caribbean region is characterized by complex tectonic interactions that </span></font>
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produce large-scale deformation.  Much of this deformation occurs at sea, generating </span></font>
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large local and regional tsunamis.  Since 1498 there have been 95 tsunamis in the</span></font>
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circum-Caribbean region, including twelve that have resulted in fatalities.  The </span></font>
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understanding of tsunami sources in the Caribbean is of utmost importance for the </span></font>
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quantification of the regional tsunami hazard, the evaluation of  the potential risk,</span></font>
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and the monitoring of potentially-tsunamigenic sources. </span></font>
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We welcome contributions relevant to the understanding of the physical processes </span></font>
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involved in tsunami generation and the identification of the potential tsunami hazard </span></font>
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in the Caribbean.  This includes contributions that present recent advances in seismic </span></font>
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detection and sea-level monitoring that would impact the present state of knowledge</span></font>
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on circum-Caribbean tsunamis and the implementation of tsunami-alerting measures.</span></font>
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Conveners:</span></font>
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Victor Huerfano</span></font>
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Puerto Rico Seismic Network</span></font>
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University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez</span></font>
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victor@midas.uprm.edu</span></font>
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Aurelio Mercado</span></font>
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Dept. of Marine Sciences</span></font>
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University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez</span></font>
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amercado@cima.uprm.edu</span></font>
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Carlos Mendoza</span></font>
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Centro de Geociencias UNAM</span></font>
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cmendoza@geociencias.unam.mx</span></font>
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