The newly renovated fossil hall at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History features spectacular fossils and includes a theme of human impact on life on Earth.
Education & Careers
Un-bee-lievable Geoscience Words in Record-Breaking Spelling Bee
Some spellers found that their Earth and space science words were honey sweet. Others were bee-trayed by stinging spellings.
Introducing the New Editor-in-Chief of JGR: Planets
Find out about the person taking the helm of JGR: Planets and his plans for taking the journal forward in the coming years.
Amoeba People Find a Niche for Nerdy Science Music
The group’s rocking new album, The Fossil Record, includes a genre-bending set of songs that helps make science foot-tapping fun.
Metal Asteroid Inspires Works of Art
Student artists explore a mysterious metallic world through acrylic, ceramic, LEDs, and even string.
Making the Grade: A Week at the National Soil Judging Contest
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.
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.
