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A new educational resource helps students explore the interactions between power generation systems and water resources.

New Online Tool Teaches Students About the Energy-Water Nexus

by E. Habib, H. Eldardiry and V. C. Tidwell 31 October 201716 February 2023

Students use real data sets to explore how population changes, power generation, and water-saving strategies affect surface and groundwater use.

New software may be an important new tool for better ice sheet modeling

Research Spotlights

Open-Source Tool Aims to Boost Confidence in Ice Sheet Models

by Sarah Stanley 5 October 201724 May 2022

The software could help strengthen ice sheet models to provide a better basis for policy decisions.

GeoDeepDive helps geoscientists efficiently discover and leverage the hard-earned data locked in the scientific literature.

Science Updates

A New Tool for Deep-Down Data Mining

by S. E. Peters, I. Ross, J. Czaplewski, A. Glassel, J. Husson, V. Syverson, A. Zaffos and M. Livny 22 September 20175 May 2022

GeoDeepDive combines library science, computer science, and geoscience to dive into repositories of published text, tables, and figures and return valuable information.

Editors' Vox

Annotation Tool Facilitates Peer Review

by Brooks Hanson, J. Panning, R. Townsend and Paige Wooden 14 September 201728 September 2023

AGU journals will incorporate open source software to facilitate dialog among reviewers, editors and authors during peer review.

Google Earth image displays data overlays showing ages of the ocean floor, together with tectonic plate boundaries.

Science Updates

A Grand Tour of the Ocean Basins

by D. G. De Paor 1 September 20174 November 2022

A new teaching resource facilitates plate tectonic studies using a Google Earth virtual guided tour of ocean basins around the world.

Giovanni time-averaged satellite map of the March aerosol optical thickness off the coast of western Africa from 2003 to 2016

Science Updates

Giovanni: The Bridge Between Data and Science

by Z. Liu and J. Acker 24 August 201716 February 2023

Using satellite remote sensing data sets can be a daunting task. Giovanni, a Web-based tool, facilitates access, visualization, and exploration for many of NASA’s Earth science data sets.

Researchers demonstrate how two popular software packages can be used together for better efficiency

Research Spotlights

A Powerful New Tool for Research

by Terri Cook 17 July 201722 August 2022

A novel interface allows users of MATLAB and GMT, two software packages widely used by the geoscience community, to simultaneously harness the capabilities of both products.