AGI Press Releases

Crippling Heat Stress Projected by Midcentury in Densely Populated Regions

April 15, 2016

Alexandria, VA - This issue, EARTH Magazine explores the world s top weather-related killer: exposure to extreme heat. Human response to extreme heat leads to heat stress, an illness related to the body s inability to cool down. Humidity plays a crucial role, because… [Read More]

Earth Science Week Provides Education Tools for Earth Day

April 13, 2016

Educators and students worldwide will celebrate Earth Day 2016 on April 22 with cool experiments, and investigations exploring how our world works and those in the know can take advantage of a wealth of education resources available through Earth Science Week.… [Read More]

EARTH: Where Fire Freezes - All Eyes, Ears and Instruments on Iceland's Volatile Volcanoes

March 31, 2016

Iceland, located in the North Atlantic, is a prime geological environment for volcanoes due to its position straddling a mid-ocean ridge and possibly riding over a Hawaiian-style hot spot. With more than 100 volcanoes, 33 of which are active, Iceland is home to examples… [Read More]

Earth: A Long Layover on the Bering Land Bridge

March 23, 2016

In 2013, researchers uncovered the graves of two infants laid to rest about 11,500 years ago outside of what is now Fairbanks, Alaska. Researchers understood that these graves represented some of the earliest human migrants to North America, but were they more closely… [Read More]

Protracted Drought Threatens California Levees

March 18, 2016

Alexandria, VA - We re most accustomed to flooding causing levees to fail, like they did in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. So although the El Nino-induced floods are making the most news in California right now, it s not actually the floods that are threatening… [Read More]

The American Geosciences Institute Releases the 2016 Directory of Geoscience Departments

March 16, 2016

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce the 515th edition of The Directory of Geoscience Departments. The Directory of Geoscience Departments is the premier guide to geoscience organizations worldwide and a vital resource for… [Read More]

Missed Chilean Doublet Earthquake Presents Challenge to Warning Systems

March 8, 2016

Alexandria, VA - A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck Chile on January 2, 2011. Or so scientists thought. With increasing sensor sensitivity and advances in the quantitative analysis of earthquakes, scientists have revealed that this quake was actually a doublet. This… [Read More]

Urban Geology - An Emerging Discipline in an Increasingly Urbanized World

March 1, 2016

More than half of the total human population on Earth lives in urban areas, where geology affects us every day. Yet when we think about geology, most of us think of the hinterlands. That needs to change, argue the authors of a new feature in EARTH Magazine discussing… [Read More]

Dianna McDowell to Receive the Edward C. Roy, Jr. Award for Excellence in K-8 Earth Science Teaching

February 29, 2016

Alexandria, VA - Dianna McDowell, a teacher at Kemps Landing Old Donation School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Edward C. Roy, Jr. Award for Excellence in K-8 Earth Science Teaching. McDowell, who earned her Master s degree in… [Read More]

2016 Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship Winners Announced

February 26, 2016

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) congratulates Master s candidate Elaine Young and Ph.D. candidate Andrea Stevens as the 2016 recipients of the Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship. The scholarship, awarded to women pursuing graduate degrees in… [Read More]