<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear colleagues,<br><br>We would like to highlight the following special session at this year's AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2008 in San Francisco, California. The abstract deadline is 10 September 2008, and you can find more information at the meeting web site:<br><br> <a href="http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/">http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/</a> <br><br>or by contacting any of us.<br><br>Sincerely yours,<br><br>Greg Anderson, Sergio Barrientos, Gerald Bawden, and Mike Jackson<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Special Session G13<br>Ever Faster: Low-Latency Data Collection and Applications Across the<br>Earth Sciences<br><br>Rapid access to data from a variety of geophysical instruments is increasingly important for a wide range of Earth science applications. These include earthquake early warning and rapid finite-fault earthquake source models; tsunami and volcano warning; flood warning and hydrologic modeling; improved short-term weather models; landslides, debris flows, and other problems in geomorphology; global environmental change monitoring; and space and atmospheric physics. As a result, it is increasingly common for terrestrial networks, and now even Earth observing satellite missions, to provide low-latency data products, despite significant technical challenges and restricted funding environments. We intend this session to bring together network and data managers, technologists, and researchers with an interest in low-latency data across the Earth sciences. We particularly welcome those presentations that define scientific needs or new solutions that can foster further growth in this exciting area. <br><br>Conveners<br><br>Greg Anderson<br>Swiss Seismological Service<br>ETH-Zurich<br>Tel: +41 (0)44 633 24 80<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:greg.anderson@sed.ethz.ch">greg.anderson@sed.ethz.ch</a><br><br>Sergio Barrientos<br>University of Chile<br>Tel: +56 2 696 65 63<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:sbarrien@dgf.uchile.cl">sbarrien@dgf.uchile.cl</a><br><br>Gerald Bawden<br>US Geological Survey<br>Tel: +1 916 278 3131<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:gbawden@usgs.gov">gbawden@usgs.gov</a><br><br>Michael Jackson<br>UNAVCO<br>Tel: +1 303 381 7554<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:jackson@unavco.org">jackson@unavco.org</a><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>