The American Association of Geographers (AAG) kicked off its annual elections today; online voting will continue until February 2. The current Vice President, Derek H. Alderman (University of Tennessee), is running unopposed and will become the 2017 AAG President.

Jaga Richter, a scientist at the National Center for Atmopspheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, recently shared a story in The Plainspoken Scientist, a science communication blog from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

After emceeing a screening of the 2016 film, "Deepwater Horizon," with 100 Colorado School of Mines petroleum engineering students, J. A.

Do you have a passion for geoscience, data sharing, and cyberinfrastructure? Check out EarthCube! Initiated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2011, EarthCube aims to improve cyberinfrastructure and data sharing across the geosciences by funding interdisciplinary research. 2017 NSF EarthCube Solicitations are open until March 17, 2017. Learn more here.

Looking for something new and geoscience-y to listen to on your morning commute? Seismic Soundoff is an audio podcast produced by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). The ninth episode, "Mentoring geoscience leaders," features inverviews with Andréa Darrh, Dr. Esther Babcock, and Dr. John Bradford, who talk about the process and importance of mentoring in their careers.

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The temperatures have dropped and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) explores how using salt to manage ice on walkways and roads during the winter may impact soils.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), which houses the Geo-Institute, announced that the 2016 revision of its ASCE Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures will, for the first time, contain a chapter on tsunamis. Part of the creation of this chapter was the establishment of a committee to study the response of buildings, and their internal structures, to tsunamis. The committee was officially established in February of 2011, just weeks before the devastating Tohoko Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan. Click for more:  

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) will be hosting their next #AAGChat on Twitter to answer questions people may have on careers in geography. From 3:00-4:00 pm EST on Thursday, January 12th, AAG will be answering questions through their twitter account @theAAG.

EarthScope is seeking applications from graduate students to collect and interpret geochronology data that contribute to EarthScope science targets through visits to participating geochronology labs.