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Geologist Lauren Haygood balances on a plunging anticline during a field trip to the Arbuckle Mountains, Okla.

Features

Lauren Haygood: Normalizing STEM in America’s Heartland

by Saima May Sidik 25 July 202225 July 2022

Community science builds bridges while generating valuable environmental data.

Figure 3 from the paper, showing a photograph of a tree, a satellite image, and a graph showing the impacts of different types of trees on temperature.

Editors' Highlights

Community Scientists Help to Beat the Heat

by Gabriel Filippelli 25 July 202225 July 2022

As cities face health threats from heat and air pollution—both expected to worsen from climate change—researchers pilot a community scientist effort to map air quality and improve urban health.

A water tanker truck parked outside an apartment complex in Bengaluru, India

Opinions

Deploying Community Water Solutions with People, for People

by Indrani Pal, Celena Wasserstrom, Adriel Chang and Ganesh Shanbhag 14 July 20221 June 2023

Guiding principles and strategies for solving local water availability problems in India have emerged from collaborations involving water users, water experts, and water solutions providers.

Editors' Vox

Sewing DEI Into the Fabric of the Geosciences

by Paige Wooden, Mia Ricci and Tanya Dzekon 13 July 20228 February 2023

AGU journals host a new living special collection on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the geosciences and invite additional contributions to grow this collection.

The Secret Spire rock formation, or hoodoo, in Moab, Utah.

News

Rock Music in Utah

by Robin Donovan 3 May 20229 May 2023

Three-dimensional models could help forecast rock tower frequencies—and seismic impacts—around the globe.

Two men stand in a room. The man on the left points to a Raspberry Shake seismometer, the small box on the floor.

News

Community Science Builds a Seismic Network in Haiti

by Fionna M. D. Samuels 19 April 202222 August 2023

Small, inexpensive seismometers are capable of sharing high-quality data in real time—and were put to the test during an August 2021 earthquake.

Orange sky from a sunrise fills the sky beyond a mountain summit and clouds.

Opinions

Reframing Funding Strategies to Build Reciprocity

by Diamond Tachera 13 October 20215 January 2022

Extractive and exploitive practices erode trust in Western science among Indigenous communities. Changing funding structures is one way to develop reciprocity and respect and repair relationships.