The 48th Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) will be held on 14–18 December at the Moscone Center, San Francisco. Its Scientific Programme is now available online and includes several presentations related to the ICSU World Data System. In particular, the following oral presentation will be given by the former Chair of the WDS Scientific Committee, Bernard Minster:

• U23A-05: Curse of the Zombie Petabytes
  [15:00–15:20, 15 December 2015; Moscone West - 3002]

and this poster will be presented by the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology (WDS Regular Member)

• PP53B-2352: Normalizing paleoclimate variables in support of data-intensive science
  [13:40–18:00, 18 December 2015; Moscone South - Poster Hall]

The AGU Fall Meeting is the largest Earth and Space Science meeting in the world, boasting nearly 24,000 attendees annually, and a technical programme that includes 1700 sessions with greater than 23,000 oral and poster presentations discussing emerging research trends and new and cutting-edge science.