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Creating Spaces for Geoscientists with Disabilities to Thrive
Flexible fieldwork options and more thoughtful recruitment efforts will better open our community to the diverse talent it needs.
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A Geodata Fabric for the 21st Century
We have the potential to transform our understanding of Earth—if we can just figure out how to harness ever growing data streams.
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AGU Welcomes New Editors in Chief to Lead Six Prominent Journals
As leaders in their respective fields, this new cohort of Earth and space scientists will help ensure the continued success of AGU publications.
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Shells Sound Out Sand’s Acoustic Signatures
Shell remains give sand from different locations unique acoustic signatures.
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Nicholas Constantinos Matalas (1930–2019)
A modest giant in the field of stochastic hydrology.
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Watching Earth’s Interconnected Systems at Work
Surface Biology and Geology, a new NASA Earth observation effort, is developing a path forward for monitoring the Earth system from space.
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Improving Reproducibility in Earth Science Research
Earth scientists need software technology that better integrates legacy data with current and future processing capabilities so they can assess and reproduce their colleagues’ results.
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Podcast: Plate Tectonics, the Theory That Changed Earth Science
Third Pod from the Sun talks with pioneering geophysicist Xavier Le Pichon about what it was like to be a young scientist challenging deeply held theories.
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This Is How the World Moves
In October, we celebrate AGU’s Centennial by looking under our feet, where the relatively new study of plate tectonics is evolving rapidly.