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 | April | ~15000 people | ||||
| American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics | November | |||||
| 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)