geoscience

IntroductionThe increasing interconnectedness of global societies highlights the need to understand the dynamic relationships among cultural exchange, environmental awareness, and geoscientific communication. Geoscience provides important insights into Earth systems and human environmental interactions, but its communication and interpretation are often shaped by cultural context, local knowledge…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Master’s student KeMia Smith has been named the distinguished recipient of the 2024 American Geosciences Institute (AGI) Scholarship for Advancing Diversity in the Geoscience Profession. This prestigious $5,000 scholarship is awarded to support an outstanding underrepresented minority student pursuing advanced studies in geoscience. A recent recipient of a bachelor’s…

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section. This May we are not highlighting any specific Division as our monthly plan will start in June, so this month our GeoRoundup Journals will be alphabetical!   Highlights Earth System Dynamics: Dependency of the impacts …

Empowering Geoscience and Engineering Education for the Energy Transition. Dr. Rasoul Sorkhabi, a CvEEN Research Professor, and Milind Deo, a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Energy & Geoscience Institute, are pioneering a transformative approach to geoscience and geoengineering education. Their work, recently featured in the prestigious “Issues in Science a…

A long time ago, when I walked into the Ministry of Education building in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) to inquire about offering an earthquake education workshop in a public school, I had no research agenda, let alone thinking about publishing it one day. All I wanted was to do something useful: sharing earthquake science with school children. Recognizing the value of geoscience communication, my gradua…

Alexandria, Va. — The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) congratulates Ph.D. student Selena Martinez as the 2022 recipient of the AGI Scholarship for Advancing Diversity in the Geoscience Profession. This competitive scholarship provides $5,000 to support an underrepresented minority student for their transition into a geoscience graduate program. A recent recipient of a bachelor’s degree…

The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) congratulates master’s student Cissy Ming and doctoral student Behnaz Hosseini for being named as the 2022 recipients of the Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship. This highly competitive scholarship, which is awarded to women pursuing graduate degrees in geoscience, provides each recipient with a $5,000 award for one academic year. Cissy Ming is a seco…

King penguin in the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego. Photo by Tatjana Milojevic, shared on imaggeo.egu.eu.   Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository. All geoscientists (and others) can submit their photographs and videos to this repository and, since it is open access, these images can be used for free by scientists for their presentations or publications, by ed…

The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is proud to announce the second chapter of its original film series, Earth as Inspiration. Narrated by AGI Earth Science Education Ambassador and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, the series underscores the importance of Earth science learning and understanding for young and old audiences alike. While the first chapter of the film series …