![]() The prohibitive cost of getting from South Africa to San Francisco meant that although I got an abstract accepted, my co-author and PhD supervisor ended up presenting our work. It was 3 years before I got the chance to do better, although this next poster holds the distinction of making it to AGU 2007 even though I personally didn’t. Even if the colour scheme was not embarrassing, in hindsight, it’s also clear that this effort suffers from the all-too-common problems of too much text in too small a font: the figures are also too small and often clash with the background. Perhaps the reason I spent most of my poster session in a very forthright argument with a New Zealand geologist was because the garishness unduly provoked him. This is partly because the screen on the laptop I had at the time apparently had a bit of trouble accurately reproducing reds, but even then you have to admit it’s a brave visual choice. Yes, it is very visually striking, isn’t it? A large amount of the final interpretation for this thing were thrashed out in a jetlag-induced haze over the Pacific ocean much of the actual creation was done in the lounge of a youth hostel in the Southern Alps and it was printed in a New Zealand copy shop the morning before I flew out.ĪGU 2004. The creation story for this one is much more Chris-like: AGU that year was the final leg of a “conference world tour” that saw me fly from the UK to New Zealand to give a conference talk in Taupo, before flying to San Francisco for AGU, and then back to the UK just in time for Christmas. I was doing the final proofing before sending my latest opus to the plotter, and a thought occurred to me that requires me to go back to my very first AGU, and my very first AGU poster, in 2004. Since I am generally more of a “expand task to precisely fit the time available” type, it’s rather unusual for me not to experience some degree of last minute panic: I’m so used to it, it’s almost…too calm. It’s a miracle! In an amazing (and probably entirely serendipitous) feat of organisation, I find myself printing my poster for the AGU 2012 Fall Meeting a whole 3 days before I fly to San Francisco.
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