Presentations

Oral

Oral presentations must be in MS PowerPoint. A PC-type computer will be provided at the conference to display your presentation. To transfer your file to the conference computer, please bring it on a memory stick or a CD. There will be time set aside each morning to test your file on the conference computer.

Poster

Posters must be printed and must fit on display boards with these dimensions:

4 feet high by 5 feet wide --48" high x 60" wide (122 cm high by 152 cm wide)

There are no other requirements; however, we suggest the following:

Use sans serif fonts (eg., Arial, Helvetica) for headings, serif fonts (eg., Times Roman) for blocks of text.
Make your headings stand out from your body of text. Bold them, make them 2-3 times bigger in point size.
Use a minimum of 18 point size for text.
Don't use a lot of different colors. (For example, don't make every heading a different color. You could make the abstract a different color since it is usually read first, and you want it to stand apart from the rest of your poster.)
Use consistency in size and format when designing graphs, figures, labels, etc.
Try to align elements such as text and columns of figures along the same vertical line. This gives your poster a clean, professional look.
Graphics - highly compressed JPEG and GIF files that look great on a 72 dpi computer screen will look awful printed at 300-600 dpi on a printer. Test image quality by printing graphics out on a laser printer first at the size you plan to use in your poster. You may have to shrink their dimensions to improve their appearance. TIF or BMP files are better choices to use for printing. For photographs, use a minimum of 100 dpi resolution at the size that you will be printing. You shouldn't need more than 150 dpi. For line art, or graphics with text, use a minimum of 300 dpi at the size you will be printing. If the text is part of the graphic, remove the text (use eraser or clone tool in your graphics editor), and then use your poster layout software to retype the text in a text box and place the text box on top of the graphic. Then you can decrease the resolution of your base graphic.

Authors will set up their posters in the mornings during the continental breakfast on the days they are scheduled to be presented.

If you prefer not to travel with your poster, you may ship it to the following address. You MUST write the first author's last name and the abstract number on the outside of the shipping tube.

Robert S. Bowman
New Mexico Tech
Dept of Earth & Environmental Science
801 Leroy Place
Socorro, NM 87801
USA