Jianfei Peng and Karin van der Wiel will receive the 2017 James R. Holton Award at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, to be held 11–15 December in New Orleans, La. The award recognizes “outstanding scientific research and accomplishments by early-career scientists” who are “no more than three years past the award of the Ph.D. degree.”
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Carlton, Horowitz, Vecchi, and Wood Receive the 2017 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award
Annmarie Carlton, Larry W. Horowitz, Gabriel Vecchi, and Robert Wood will receive the 2017 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, to be held 11–15 December in New Orleans, La. The award recognizes research contributions by “exceptional mid-career (academic, government, and private sector) scientists in the fields of atmospheric and climate sciences.”
AGU Welcomes Congressional Science Fellow in Program’s 40th Year
Isaac “Ike” Irby brings to his upcoming year as a science expert in a congressional office advanced training in marine science and public policy plus experience as an executive branch intern.
Celebrating the 2017 Class of Fellows
American Geophysical Union President-elect Robin Bell will present the newly elected class at the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting.
Diversifying the Reviewer Pool
After a successful trial to actively encourage authors to recommend diverse lists of reviewers for their papers, a reminder statement about diversity will now be rolled out across AGU journals.
New Earth and Space Science Preprint Server to Be Launched
An international advisory board drawn from geoscience societies will guide the project initiated by the American Geophysical Union.
AGU Revises Its Integrity and Ethics Policy
The updated ethics policy takes a strong stance against harassment in the sciences.
AGU Marks Peer Review Week
AGU is committed to assessing and improving the peer review process through various new and recent initiatives.
Enabling Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Data
AGU is convening a partnership in the Earth and space science community to develop the standards to connect researchers, publishers, and data repositories.
AGU Provides Open Citations and Content Sharing
AGU joins new initiatives to make scientific research more transparent and accessible.