Students from around the country recently convened for the National Collegiate Soils Contest and promptly crawled into backhoe-scraped pits to dig into soil science.
Education & Careers
Continuing AGU’s Legacy in Publishing: AGU Advances’ New Editor in Chief
Susan Trumbore will lead this new, highly selective journal in publishing cutting-edge research across the Earth and space sciences.
Science in This Century Needs People
An ecologist built an army of beach surveyors over 20 years and now has the world’s largest data set of marine bird mortality informing climate change and disaster studies.
“Legendary” Mentor Follows the Groundwater
Mary Pikul Anderson, a lauded hydrogeologist, has advised more than 50 graduate students.
Let’s Start Teaching Scientists How to Withstand Attacks on Fact
We need to imbue students with a central value: Adherence to the scientific method is, in itself, good citizenship.
Incentivizing Equity and Diversity in AGU Honors Nominations
These five common myths persist about nominating your colleagues. AGU can pursue several methods of ushering in change more quickly.
Podcast: Rifts Beneath the Ocean Floor
In the latest episode of its Centennial series, AGU’s Third Pod from the Sun features the pioneering work of a deep-sea explorer.
Deaf Students Feel the Universe’s Vibrations in New Workshop
Students experienced the vibrations of Earth’s auroras, the Sun’s flares, Jupiter’s bow shock, and Saturn’s rings in an outreach activity designed specifically for their community.
It’s Time to Shift Emphasis Away from Code Sharing
Building well-documented, citable frameworks for Earth data analysis will encourage scientific replicability by addressing the underlying issues that inhibit code sharing.
Strengthening Our Science: AGU Launches Ethics and Equity Center
The AGU Ethics and Equity Center is a new hub for resources and tools to support all members of the Earth and space science community and encourage workplace excellence.