Conferences

We've attended quite a few conferences over the years. This is a place to record some notes on them and, perhaps more importantly, good places to eat!

Feel free to add your thoughts / recommendations here.

General Notes

Flights

• Avoid electronic boarding passes, since you'll need to submit a boarding pass with your receipts to get reimbursed
• You'll likely be buying your tickets well in advance of the conference, so you may want to consider getting a travel advance so that you get that money back earlier

Conferences

Name	Link	Month(s)	Size	Location	Topic(s)	Thoughts
Ocean Sciences	2020 meeting in San Diego	February	~ 4000 people	Various (Portland 2018, San Diego 2020)	Wide range of topics. Fairly light on numerical talks.	(Ben) I quite enjoyed this conference. Massive poster session was good. Good chance to see interesting talks in your field and check out interesting talks in other fields.
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Congress	CMOS Congress	July	Small	Various Canadian Cities (2019: Montreal as part of IUGG)
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting	AGU Fall Meeting	December	~25000 people	Usually San Francisco	Atmospheric, Earth-Covering (including Ocean Sciences), Geophysics, and Space Physics, and Interdisciplinary. Good combination of observational and numerical work.	Overwhelmingly large, incredible poster sessions, lots of chance to see interdisciplinary work (science education, public health, science/art) and participate in workshops.
European Geophysical Union	2019 EGU General Assembly	April	~15000 people	Vienna, Austria	Ocean sciences, cryospheric sciences, general geophysics, climatology. Much of the research is observational and numerical.	Tremendously well attended. Every day has hundreds of posters to look at. Due to the shear number of people, one usually comes out with a memorable idea or two.
American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics	2018 APS DFD Annual Meeting	November	~3500	Seattle (2019)	Observational oceanography, small crymospere session, numerical simulation, internal waves.	Weaker poster session, as this conference is focused mainly on talks. If you submit an abstract and ask for a talk, you will get a talk. Perhaps it's good practice as the talks are required to be swift and there is no room to add fluff. Often, there is a contingent from Cornell that we have ties to, so this is a good opportunity to meet researchers from other institutions.
International Association for Great Lakes Research Conference	IAGLR Conference	June	Very Small
Conference of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Society of Canada	CFD Canada	June	Very Small

Food

Denver

• Sam's No. 3 Diner (arm sized burritos)
• Rhein Haus (good German beer)

Vienna

• derHannes

Portland

• Afuri Ramen (not super cheap, but fantastic ramen)
• Tarad thai (decent prices, good food. Lunch special is a good deal)
• Eisenhower bagels (great bagels at a great price)
• Frank's Noodle House (pretty cheap, incredibly good noodles)
• Little Bird (signs for Petit Ouseau. Expensive, but great French food)

Washington

• Del Sol (amazing burritos)
• Busboys and Poets (great locally-sourced brunch, great social causes)