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Communities Thrive with Thriving Earth
As AGU celebrates 100 years, its Thriving Earth Exchange is setting a foundation for the future, partnering with community leaders to bring scientific solutions to pressing local issues.
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Climate Change Will Make Us Sicker and Lose Work Hours
Experts have given the United States a warning: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or suffer the consequences of lower productivity and a sicker population for generations to come.
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Training and Diversifying Space Project Principal Investigators
NASA and its partner organizations are working on several fronts to remove barriers to entry into space mission leadership positions.
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Making Sense of Local Climate Projections
Hands-on training, collaboration with scientists, and practice using real-world challenges give planners and decision-makers confidence to work with climate model information.
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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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Training the Next Generation of Marine Biogeochemists
Early-career scientists came together recently to learn to use a suite of ocean biogeochemical sensors, with the goal of closing the knowledge gap between ocean technology and potential end users.
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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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Set to Music, Exoplanets Reveal Insights on Their Formation
Sonification hints at how some Kepler planets may have been configured in the late stages of their development.
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What Makes for Ethical Citizen Science Research?
A new study explores questions of consent and coercion in citizen science.