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Subject: AbSciCon2006 Guest Speakers
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Date:    Wed, March 1, 2006 3:51 pm
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<p align="center"><strong>Welcome to
AbSciCon 2006!</strong><br />
<strong>March 26-30, 2006 (Sunday
&ndash; Thursday)</strong><br />
<a
href="http://abscicon.arc.nasa.gov">http://abscicon.arc.nasa.gov</a></p>

<p align="center"><strong><font
color="#FF0000">REGISTRATION
OPEN</font></strong></p>

<p>Dear colleagues,</p>

<p>Abscicon 2006 will feature many
stimulating speakers giving provocative
talks.
Get a talk preview by viewing the
abstracts at
(<a
href="http://abscicon2006.arc.nasa.gov/">http://abscicon2006.arc.nasa.gov</a>)

from the following distinguished guest
speakers: <br />
<br />
<strong>Dr. Harrison H.
Schmitt</strong>, former astronaut and
U.S. Senator
who will talk on &ldquo;Returning to the
Moon and Living There&rdquo;<br />
<br />
<strong>Dr. Rick Potts</strong>,
Director of the Human Origins Program
and
Curator of Anthropology at the National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution <em>(</em>speaking on the
influence of the environment on human
evolution)<br />
<br />

<strong>Dr. George Coyne</strong>,
Director of the Vatican Observatory
(speaking on "The Dance of the Fertile
Universe: Chance and Destiny Embrace")
<br />
<br />

<strong>Dr. John Hayes</strong> of the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
who will
present the Harold Klein Lecture; his
talk is entitled "Hiding in Plain Sight
- Redox Balances and the Carbon Cycle".
<br />


<br />
<strong><font color="#FF0000">If you
haven&rsquo;t already done so, register
for AbSciCon 2006 now!
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