Mineral and Rock Physics at Fall AGU San Francisco, CA December 11-15, 2006

1. Mineral and Rock Physics at Fall AGU • San Francisco, CA • December 11-15, 2006 • Special Session Proposals • Advances in Pressure Determination at High Temperature • Yingwei Fei, Baosheng Li, and Hans Mueller • Clathrates under compression: Planetary, environmental, and energy-related applications • I-Ming Chou, William Durham, and Wendy Mao • Composition and Dynamics of Earth’s Mantle: Current Frontiers and Grand Challenges in Elasticity, Phase Transitions, and Rheology Studies • Jay Bass, Shun Karato, Jun-Fu (Afu) Lin, Eiji Ohtani, and Charlie Prewitt • Computational Mineral Physics • Artem Organov, David Price, and Lars Stixrude • Earth's Core: Formation, Composition, Structure • James Badro, Frederick Ryerson, and Lidunka Vocadlo • Fluids in the Earth's interior • Isabelle Daniel and Lars Stixrude • Ironworkers Reunion: Iron in the Earth and Planets • Ronald Cohen and Donald Isaak • Mineral and Rock Physics General Contributions • Jennifer Jackson • Radioactivity: Abundance, distribution, heat production and its influence on the dynamics and chemistry of Earth’s deep interior • Bruce Buffett and Kanani Lee • Shock processes in terrestrial and planetary materials • Sarah Stewart and Oliver Tschauner • Structural refinement studies for the minerals under high pressure conditions • Martin Kunz and Haozhe Liu • Thermodynamics in Geochemistry, Petrology and Mineral Physics • Honoring Alexandra Navrotsky for the AGU Hess Medal! • Becky Lange and Nancy Ross • Transport Properties of the Deep Earth • Jim Van Orman and Heather Watson Jennifer Jackson MRP representative for Fall AGU