In AGU’s 2022 biennial election, for which voting ended on 6 October, the membership chose 59 new leaders to serve 2-year terms in 2023–2024. Union officers, Board members, section officers, student and early-career representatives to the Council, and the College of Fellows chair-elect were elected. Here the AGU Leadership Development/Governance Committee looks back at the … Read more
The AGU Board met in Washington DC in a hybrid format with approximately half of the Board members on Zoom, and half in person. After more than two years of learning how to do this since COVID’s unwelcome arrival, the hybrid format worked very well. At the on-site dinner, there were times when several of … Read more
Guided by our strategic plan, AGU has an organizational goal to model and promote a diverse, equitable and inclusive scientific culture through all of our programs. On behalf of AGU leadership, we’d like to thank our members for your continued support and engagement in this critically important work. Over the past year, the AGU community … Read more
In June, the AGU Board and Council approved updates to the position statement: “Building resilience requires partnerships between scientists, policymakers and communities,” which previously only addressed resilience to natural hazards. Resilience is the ability of systems — including people — to anticipate, respond, recover and adapt to disruptions, which can include acute events, such as … Read more
AGU, the world’s largest Earth and space science association, applauds the bipartisan effort by Congress to pass the CHIPS and Science Act, which represents one of the largest investments in U.S. science and technology in decades. The legislation, which was modified from a larger package of bills, now includes the semiconductor-focused CHIPS Act, along with … Read more
As leaders of the world’s largest Earth and space science association, we are gravely concerned by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to negate the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enforce the Clean Air Act. Today’s decision directly undermines the efforts of scientists in our community as well as the science-supported policy that protects the health … Read more
The AGU Leadership Development/Governance Committee and Section and College of Fellows officers are pleased to announce the proposed slate of candidates for the 2022 AGU election. Every two years, per its bylaws, AGU elects leaders for the Board and Council, Sections and the College of Fellows who will move the organization forward and will be instrumental … Read more
We launched AGU Advances in 2019 to lead scientific publishing into the future. The gold open access journal has carved out a place for groundbreaking research that has broad and immediate implications for the scientific community and to our global society.
The report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphasizes that society must address the growing climate crisis. As also argued in AGU’s position on climate change, collective action is needed now to use energy more efficiently; transition to energy sources, products and services that do not release greenhouse gases; implement existing and … Read more
AGU mourns the passing of solar astrophysicist Eugene N. Parker, a pioneer in the study of solar wind, namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and an active member of the AGU community.