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Geologist Adriana Alves
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Adriana Alves: Creating an Inclusive Academy

by Meghie Rodrigues 25 July 202425 July 2024

One of few Black professors at an elite university in Brazil advocates for a more diverse and inclusive academic environment.

Six people sitting and standing around a black table in a classroom look on as another person writes on a large piece of paper affixed to a cabinet door.
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Geoscience Departments Can “Phone a Friend” for Support

by Anne E. Egger and Walt Robinson 21 June 202426 August 2024

For a decade, the Traveling Workshops Program has provided customized assistance and expert facilitation to support geoscience groups as they adapt to shifting student and institutional interests.

Illustration of a woman holding a globe surrounded by computer screens
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Empowering Genderqueer Geoscientists: Being and Building the Change

by Qiongyu Chong Huang, Akilah K. Alwan, Gaige Hunter Kerr, Alejandro J. Olvera and Elijah T. Johnson 29 May 202415 November 2024

A joint AGU-AMS panel outlined how individuals, institutions, and professional associations can take action to expand opportunities for those with traditionally marginalized identities.

Scientists are lowered from the deck of R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer to the sea ice of the Southern Ocean as part of a GEOTRACES research cruise.
Posted inAGU News

Charting New Territory

by Caryl-Sue Micalizio 23 May 20249 July 2024

From the abyss of the Antarctic to proxy lunar landscapes in Arizona, fieldwork gives Earth and space scientists insight and experience.

Two rectangular CubeSats shortly after being ejected from a satellite deployer. Earth’s horizon is in the background.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tiny Satellites Can Provide Significant Information About Space

by Rebecca Owen 10 May 20242 July 2025

Students and faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder use CubeSats to learn more about the near-Earth environment.

Old phones, computer parts, and random human garbage trapped in sediment
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What’s Next for the Anthropocene?

by Meghie Rodrigues 23 April 202423 April 2024

Researchers weigh in on the meaning and aftermath of the decision to reject designating “Anthropocene” as an official geological epoch.

Um modelo de fóssil de dinossauro completo pendurado por cabos
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A Exportação Ilegal de Fósseis É Mais do que um Irritante para o Sul Global

by Sofia Moutinho 15 April 202415 April 2024

Mais de 2 mil pesquisadores assinaram carta aberta solicitando a repatriação do fóssil de um dinossauro para o Brasil. Alguns dizem que o caso destaca um padrão de colonialismo científico na paleontologia.

Un grupo de estudiantes universitarios dentro de un lugar, algunos sentados y otros de pie, todos mirando en la misma dirección.
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Impulsando el apoyo para estudiantes y profesionales en etapas tempranas de sus carreras

by Paige Becker, Danyka Byrnes, Caitlyn Hall and Yuhan Rao 29 March 202429 March 2024

Los grupos de estudiantes y profesionales en etapas tempranas de sus carreras (E&PETCs) pueden construir comunidades, impulsar cambios equitativos en las instituciones y promover el bienestar de las personas que recorren, los muy a menudo, caminos tortuosos hacia carreras científicas.

Outline of states
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States of Mind

by Caryl-Sue Micalizio 27 February 202428 February 2024

Regional programs offer models of success in science education and policy.

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Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Physical Geography

by James Marshall Shepherd, Jacob Bendix and Michael A. Urban 2 February 202425 April 2024

Geography, a discipline combining geosciences and social sciences, is becoming more demographically diverse overall. But physical geography is lagging behind and needs to catch up.

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