Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is recognizing John C. Steinmetz with the William B. Heroy Jr. Award for Distinguished Service to AGI. He has served as a leader between AGI and the Association of American State Geologists for two decades and has been a long-standing member of the GeoRef Advisory Committee. In 1993, Steinmetz served as an advisor for the three-phase National Geoscience Data Repository System project, which improved access to critical geoscience data such as rock cores and cuttings, well logs, paleontological and geochemical samples, and digital seismic data. [Read More]

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to recognize Berry H.“Nick” Tew, Jr., the State Geologist of Alabama, with the AGI Medal in Memory of Ian Campbell for Superlative Service to the Geosciences, its highest award. He is recognized for his roles, abilities and successes in bringing academia, government, industry and the public together to address major societal challenges in the geosciences. Dr. Tew has served as State Geologist and Oil and Gas Supervisor of Alabama for 14 years and, in these capacities, he directs the Geological Survey of Alabama and the State Oil and Gas Board. [Read More]

The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to welcome Dr. Eve S. Sprunt as President-Elect and Dr. Carolyn Olson as Member at Large to its 2016-2017 Executive Committee. These distinguished individuals will begin their leadership roles on September 27, 2016 at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver. Dr. Eve Sprunt has a 35-year career in the petroleum industry and has extensive professional society and business management experience. Her career has afforded her global experiences in the petroleum industry, alternative energy, environmental policy, venture capital, university relations, building educational programs in developing countries and workforce issues including those impacting dual career couples and women, and attracting and retaining technical professionals. [Read More]

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to welcome Dr. Jean M. Bahr as the 2016-2017 President of its Executive Committee. Bahr is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and holds degrees from Stanford and Yale. She was appointed by President Obama to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, is a fellow at the Geological Society of America (GSA), and is an editor for the American Geophysical Union journal, “Water Resources and Research. [Read More]

Alexandria, VA - In recent decades, satellites have given scientists the opportunity to study glaciers at an unprecedented scale. However, there are still some glacial behaviors that glaciologists would like to understand better, such as what happens where glaciers meet seawater. This can be an expensive or even dangerous task for human explorers. The leaps and bounds made in computing and engineering technologies have given rise to a new arsenal of tools that can be deployed remotely, record more data, and nimbly move through terrains and locations deemed too risky for human explorers. [Read More]

Alexandria, VA — The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) announces its 2016 Back to School Sale for the geoscience community as the fall semester starts. For almost 70 years, AGI has been the leader in geoscience publishing, helping to educate geoscience students and professionals worldwide. With the new academic year starting, we have placed some of our best-selling publications for students and professionals on sale through September 30, 2016: The definitive guide to field study and the laboratory is the Geoscience Handbook: AGI Data Sheets, Fifth Edition. [Read More]

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce the relaunching of its GeoSpectrum newsletter as the Geotimes Blog. GeoSpectrum has evolved from a quarterly newsletter of the geoscience societies to a blog about activities in AGI’s member societies and other news and events about the geosciences. For decades, AGI’s Geotimes magazine not only published features about geoscience but was also the major source of information about the activities within the profession, including news from AGI’s Member Societies, information about new books, maps and datasets, and insights into the interface of geoscience and policy. [Read More]

To ensure that all interested participants have time to produce the best contest entries they can, Earth Science organizer is extending the deadline of its new “One Shared Place” contest to Friday, October 14, 2016. The contest is intended to promote understanding of the important role of the geosciences in everyone’s life. The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is inviting teams of educators and students to submit a 30- to 90-second original video informing viewers about an outdoor place that is special in terms of “geoheritage” (natural features, settings, and resources formed over vast periods) and “geoscience” (the study of Earth systems). [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) announces the publication of its 2016 Status of the Geoscience Workforce Report. This biennial comprehensive report provides an overview of educational, employment, and economic indicators in the geosciences. Some notable highlights from this year’s 142-page report include: Even though experienced employment in the energy sector has been soft since 2014, both new graduates entering the energy sector and all geoscientists engaging in the environmental and engineering consulting industries have been seeing growth and robust activity. [Read More]

Alexandria, VA - Human evolution and paleoanthropology are tricky subjects, not just because of the rarity of these fossils, but also because human nature seems to be getting in the way of modern taxonomy. In a field that is generally governed by logical rules when it comes to identifying new fossils, scientists have noticed peculiarities applied to our own genus, Homo. The story of the genus Homo is as much rooted in historical cultural norms as it is in the modern scientific sector. [Read More]