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Heather Goss

Heather Goss joined Eos as the editor in chief in 2018. She has been a science and news editor since 2006, most recently at the Smithsonian Institution. She was previously the managing editor of local news site DCist.com and a freelance science writer; before that she was a practicing lawyer. Heather is also the founder of the 501(c)(3) arts organization Exposed DC. She has a B.A. in nonfiction writing with a minor in astrophysics from Ohio Wesleyan University and a law degree from American University’s Washington College of Law.

Earth at night from space
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The Shape of the World

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

by Heather Goss 11 December 201931 January 2022

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.

Jamie Austin with a group of scientists from the United States, China, and Europe on the north side of Mount Everest in Tibet.
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Lifting Up the Next Generation with Austin Student Travel Grants

by Heather Goss 4 December 2019

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.

An illustration celebrating AGU’s Centennial using drawings from items that represent all the Earth and space science fields forming the number 100.
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The Road Ahead…

by Heather Goss 25 November 201928 September 2021

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

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.

Person standing near Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia
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This Is How the World Moves

by Heather Goss 1 October 201911 January 2022

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

Aerial photo of large wind turbines on a cloudy mountaintop
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AGU and Eos are “Covering Climate Now”

by Heather Goss and N. Bompey 11 September 2019

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.”

volcano Sapas Mons on Venus
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A New Approach to New Worlds

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.

An X1.6 class solar flare imaged by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2014.
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Here Comes the Sun

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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Changes to the Eos Scientist-Authored Submission Process

by Heather Goss 8 July 2019

By transitioning from manuscript to proposal submission, Eos will make it easier for scientists to share their critical work with our readers.

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