Combining commercial hydrocarbon and mineral exploration data with novel academic research and modeling capabilities helps answer key questions about underground magma systems.
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Planetary Cave Exploration Progresses
Terrestrial caves offer scientific and engineering insights and serve as testing grounds for future forays by humans and robots into caves on other worlds.
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Reimagining the Colorado River by Exploring Extreme Events
Workshops exploring environmental, social, and political scenarios to prepare for negotiating new Colorado River water management guidelines took on added realism when the COVID-19 pandemic started.
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Students Learn New Skills with Scientist-in-Training Programs
AGU’s Bright STaRS offers a model for programs to give middle and high school students a taste of what a career in science can offer.
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Advancing AI for Earth Science: A Data Systems Perspective
Tackling data challenges and incorporating physics into machine learning models will help unlock the potential of artificial intelligence to answer Earth science questions.
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Reaching Consensus on Assessments of Ocean Acidification Trends
Scientists are working to establish a common methodology for evaluating rates of change in—and the various mechanisms that affect—acidification across ocean environments.
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Torrential Rains and Poor Forecasts Sink Panama’s Infrastructure
Scientists are working to improve the forecasting of heavy rains in Panama following several events over the past decade that caused substantial flooding and damage.
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Raising Our Voices for Diversity in the Geosciences
To achieve the goals in their aspirational diversity statements, organizations must actively recruit, mentor, and support scientists from every sector of society.
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Opportunities and Challenges of Virtual Meetings
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic imposed on us a virtual existence, conference attendees and organizers have been living out an experiment that will change how scientists gather in the future.
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Exploring by Boring: Geothermal Wells as Research Tools
As part of an effort to develop a geothermal energy source beneath its campus, Cornell University is planning to probe the “boring” old continental crust upon which many people live.