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Heather Goss, AGU Publisher

Heather Goss

Heather Goss is the Publisher of Eos and Senior Director of Strategic Communications and Marketing for AGU. She served as Editor in Chief of Eos from 2018 to 2022; during her tenure, she established the Science Adviser panel comprised of AGU members representing disciplines across Earth and space science. Heather won the 2022 Award for Distinguished Science Journalism from the American Meteorological Society for “Lightning Research Flashes Forward.”
Previously, Heather was a science editor at the Smithsonian Institution, managing editor of Washington, D.C., local news publication DCist, and an attorney. She also founded the 501(c)(3) arts organization Exposed DC.

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Finding Wildfire’s Fingerprint in the Atmosphere

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 27 January 202014 March 2023

Smoke from burning landscapes is increasingly filling the air. Eos has dedicated its February 2020 issue to the increasingly important study of wildfire emissions.

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The Shape of the World

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 31 December 201922 November 2021

From new techniques in geodesy to the scientific culture we want to create, let’s start our next century together by assessing how we measure what’s most important.

Michael Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Chris McEntee at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019
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The Science and Policy of Climate Action

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 11 December 20196 March 2023

Michael Bloomberg and Jerry Brown joined AGU’s Chris McEntee at Fall Meeting 2019 in San Francisco to discuss their new report on climate strategies.

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Lifting Up the Next Generation with Austin Student Travel Grants

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 4 December 20197 December 2022

Jamie Austin is helping AGU build an endowment for the benefit of our future Earth and space scientists—and you should be part of it.

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The Road Ahead…

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 25 November 201921 March 2023

We’re closing out our Centennial year by celebrating all that our community has accomplished together and getting inspired for what comes next.

Residents in Odisha, India, rebuild houses destroyed by a cyclone in May 2019
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For the Benefit of Humanity

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 1 November 201914 February 2022

This month for our Centennial, we look to AGU’s newest science, geohealth, and the related study of natural disasters.

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This Is How the World Moves

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 1 October 20197 December 2022

In October, we celebrate AGU’s Centennial by looking under our feet, where the relatively new study of plate tectonics is evolving rapidly.

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AGU and Eos are “Covering Climate Now”

Heather Goss, AGU PublisherNanci Bompey, assistant director of AGU’s media relations department by Heather Goss and N. Bompey 11 September 20193 April 2023

We’re joining with over 200 other news outlets and organizations in a weeklong initiative to prove the power of journalism in telling “the defining story of our time.”

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A New Approach to New Worlds

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 30 August 20197 March 2022

This month we look around our solar system—and much farther—as we celebrate AGU’s Centennial.

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Here Comes the Sun

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 1 August 201914 January 2022

This August, we look at the relationship we have to our closest star for AGU’s Centennial.

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