AGU announces 2020 Bridge Program partners
We are pleased to announce our 2020 Bridge program partners, listed in alphabetical order below.
Robin E. Bell
Robin E. Bell was AGU’s board president from 2019-2020. She has been a member of AGU for more than 30 years, including serving as president of the Cryosphere section, being elected as an AGU Fellow in 2011 and receiving Outstanding Student Paper in Geodesy at the AGU Fall Meeting in 1988.
Bell is a Palisades Geophysical Institute (PGI)/Lamont Research Professor in Marine Geology and Geophysics at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She directs research programs in Antarctica and Greenland, and she has developed technology to monitor our changing planet. Her career highlights are expansive and include having a mile-long Antarctic ridge, Bell Buttress, named after her, discovering a volcano beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, and leading a Lamont team to map the Hudson River from Staten Island to Albany.
#AGU20 Student Travel Grant recipients & Outstanding Student Presentation Award program is open
#AGU20 awarded 250+ early career professionals and students the opportunity to attend Fall Meeting through grants and fellowship awards. OSPA offers feedback for students to improve presentations. Sign up for the free Student and Early Career Scientist Conference during #AGU20 too!
AGU receives NSF funding to launch a new diversity, equity and inclusion academy for the geosciences
We are excited to announce that we have received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)* to launch a new initiative that will create and support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) champions. This new initiative — AGU LANDInG (American Geophysical Union Leadership Academy and Network for Diversity and Inclusion in the Geosciences) — will spark … Read more
AGU commits to 8 action areas to combat systemic racism
AGU leadership has resolved to take eight bold, meaningful actions now.
Student Resources for #AGU20
As a part of our continued commitment to the next-generation and future of the Earth and space sciences community, #AGU20 will provide students a number of resources and opportunities.
2019 Annual Report: Celebrating our Centennial and looking to the future
AGU released our 2019 Annual Report
AGU mourns the passing of Mike Freilich
Mike was a tremendously important friend and colleague to each of us.
AGU won two ASAE Power of A Awards
We are celebrating with all of you who were integral in creating Centennial experiences.
AGU supports international students
Despite the pandemic and health experts predicting the fall will bring an increase in the number of cases, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) announced its new rule on 6 July to require those who are studying in the U.S. on visas (F-1 and M-1) to be enrolled with in-person classes or risk deportation.
AGU journal GeoHealth continues its healthy growth
We are excited to share that GeoHealth, AGU’s gold open access journal covering the increasingly important intersection among the Earth, environmental and health sciences, has crossed several important milestones recently.