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 degree in geology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Smith embarks on her master’s journey at the university in Fall 2024. [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) invites you to take part in the launch of an innovative and educational game designed to explore how natural hazard risks and perceptions influence individuals’ choices of residence and occupation. The “Natural Hazards Impact on Job Choice” game, part of AGI’s Geoscience Program Adaptation to Natural Disruptive Events (GRANDE) research project, provides unique insights into decision-making processes related to natural hazards. The purpose of this interactive game is to understand how individuals assess and prioritize natural hazard risks when making critical decisions about where to live and work. [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Dr. Kevin Bohacs, a trailblazing sedimentologist and stratigrapher who is now retired from ExxonMobil in Houston, Texas, has been awarded the American Geosciences Institute’s (AGI) 2024 Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal in recognition of his lifetime of notable achievements in the geosciences and global impact across disciplines. Dr. Bohacs has contributed significantly to the geosciences in several areas, including sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology of mudstones and lacustrine systems, source rock stratigraphy and unconventional plays, and sequence stratigraphic controls related to coal. [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Recognizing his exceptional contributions to the profession of geology, the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is thrilled to honor Dr. David R. Wunsch, State Geologist and Director of the Delaware Geological Survey, as the 2024 recipient of the AGI Medal in Memory of Ian Campbell for Superlative Service to the Geosciences. Dr. Wunsch’s service in government has spanned agencies and decades. From 2011 to the present, he has served as the State Geologist of Delaware, supervising geologists and staff conducting research and data collection on the state’s geology, water, and natural resources. [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is saddened to share the news that colleague and friend Dr. Rodney C. Ewing passed away on July 13, 2024. An AGI Past President (2019-2020), Dr. Ewing received the William B. Heroy Jr. Award for Distinguished Service to AGI (2023) for his exceptional and beneficial long-term service to the Institute and the AGI Medal in Memory of Ian Campbell for Superlative Service to the Geosciences (2015). [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Recognizing exceptional long-term service to the American Geosciences Institute (AGI), two outstanding individuals are named as 2024 William B. Heroy Jr. Award for Distinguished Service to AGI recipients: David Curtiss of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and Susan Sullivan of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder. Curtiss has been recognized for a career of leadership for the geoscience community. [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Place your advance order for the 2024 Earth Science Week Toolkit today. As the premiere annual celebration of the geosciences, Earth Science Week (ESW) has become a major focal point for earth science education and outreach. The Toolkit contains a wealth of resources to support Earth Science Week (October 13-19), which celebrates the theme “Earth Science Everywhere.” This year’s toolkit includes: Activity Calendar from the American Geosciences Institute. [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Natasha Dacic is the 2024-2025 William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellow, chosen by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). The Fisher Fellowship is a unique opportunity for a geoscientist to work as staff in a congressional office or committee for a year in Washington, D.C. Ms. Dacic expects to earn her Ph.D. in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering in August 2024 at the University of Michigan, where her doctoral work is focused on understanding the geoscience behind greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soil, policies focused on agricultural emissions, and the framework needed to foster engagement between academia and community partners. [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Master’s student Autumn Vandehey and doctoral student Molly O’Halloran have been awarded the 2024 Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship for Women Geoscience Graduate Students from the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). This scholarship, which is given to women who are pursuing graduate degrees in geoscience, grants each recipient with a $5,000 award for one academic year. Autumn Vandehey is a first-year graduate student in the Climate Science and Policy Program of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — As educators worldwide strive to make principles of sustainable development part of every young person’s learning, Dr. Ed Robeck, Director of Education and Outreach at the American Geosciences Institute (AGI), will focus on advancing sustainability-relevant education as a Fulbright Specialist at the invitation of the Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, through most of June 2024. Dr. Robeck’s work in Malaysia will build on an area of growing emphasis for the AGI Education and Outreach Department in recent years, infusing the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into geoscience instruction, especially at the pre-college level. [Read More]