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AGI hosts webinars on a variety of topics related to the geosciences including webinars about career development, topics of interest to support the success of geoscience academic departments, and discussions with geoscientists and decision makers regarding potential solutions to challenges at the interface of geoscience and society.

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Disaster Risk Reduction: The role of geological survey organizations in understanding risk and informing risk reduction actions

  • Part I: Enablers 06 February 2023 13.00 - 16.00 GMT
  • Part II: Science and Technology 13 February 2023 16.00 - 19.00 GMT
  • Part III: Risk Management Goal 20 February 2023 03.00 - 06.00 GMT
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Overcoming Pandemic-related Impacts in the Geosciences: Perspectives from Geoscience Employers

Thursday, December 8, 2022 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour
Series: Geoscience COVID Impacts Study
This is the final webinar in our Fall webinar series that is highlighting best practices and adaptations to pandemic-related impacts.
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The Enrollment Cliff

Thursday, November 17, 2022 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
This month's AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs online discussion explores the enrollment cliff and what that means for the geoscience departments. The discussion is led by Christopher Keane from AGI, and looks at the dynamics driving the enrollment cliff, followed by a group discussion on ways to get geoscience programs to thrive in this new paradigm.
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Overcoming Pandemic-related Impacts in the Geosciences: Perspectives from Academic Faculty

Thursday, October 27, 2022 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Geoscience COVID Impacts Study
This is the second of our Fall webinar series on best practices and adaptations to pandemic-related impacts. In this webinar, we hear from academic faculty at 4-year and 2-year institutions about the strategies they used to overcome pandemic-related restrictions and impacts to their work, research, and teaching activities.
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Geoscience Society Diversity Initiatives

Friday, October 21, 2022 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 30 mins
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
The AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs webinar series is pleased to offer a free online webinar and discussion about the diversity initiatives within the geoscience societies. Our presenters include:
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Updating Soil Survey to Meet Dynamic New Challenges and Sustainable Soils for a Sustainable Planet

Friday, October 14, 2022 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
This is the final webinar in the 2022 Earth Science Week webinar series that highlights the importance of maintaining soil quality and how to do so sustainably, such as by incorporating organisms into the soil food web to enhance soil quality. The speakers also showcase the use of GIS in mapping soils, with a case study on a project in Kansas that focuses on the Keith soil series.
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The Science of Keeping Materials in the Loop

Thursday, October 13, 2022 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
This third webinar of Earth Science Week 2022 webinar series explores the circular economy of raw materials, including production, use, reuse, recycling, and waste streams. The speakers discuss the roles of different stakeholders within this lifecycle and explore ways to re-capture raw materials through the different stages within the circular economy, such as is done with urban mining.
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Working to promote Earth Science for a Sustainable World

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
This is the second webinar of Earth Science Week 2022 webinar series that features two Geoscientists without Borders® (GWB) projects. The first project, presented by Dr. Kirsten Nicholson focuses on high mountain aquifers in the Sagarmatha National Park, Mt Everest region, Nepal. Dr.
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Working Toward a Sustainable World: Geoscience Projects Related to the SDGs

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
This is the first webinar of the 2022 Earth Science Week webinar series in which our speakers present six case studies that illustrate how the geosciences intersect with the UNESCO Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Zero Hunger (SDG 2), Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6), Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7), Responsibl
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Overcoming Pandemic-related Impacts in the Geosciences: Perspectives from Post-docs

Thursday, October 6, 2022 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Geoscience COVID Impacts Study
This is the first of our Fall webinar series on best practices and adaptations to pandemic-related impacts. In this webinar, we hear from two recent geoscience graduates, one of which who was a post-doctoral fellow during the pandemic, and a professor emeritus about the strategies they used to overcome pandemic-related restrictions and impacts to their work and research activities.

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Upcoming Webinars

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Disaster Risk Reduction: The role of geological survey organizations in understanding risk and informing risk reduction actions

  • Part I: Enablers 06 February 2023 13.00 - 16.00 GMT
  • Part II: Science and Technology 13 February 2023 16.00 - 19.00 GMT
  • Part III: Risk Management Goal 20 February 2023 03.00 - 06.00 GMT
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Recent Geoscience Currents

Geoscience Currents transmit snapshots of the many facets of the geoscience profession, in-depth case studies of how geoscience is applied, factsheets that provide rigorous introductions to a range of geoscience topics, workforce trends, and career paths.

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U.S. Geoscience Enrollments and Degrees through 2021

November 21, 2022
Geoscience Enrollment and Degrees Continue to Decline through 2021 Geoscience programs in the United States continued to see declines in the number of enrolled students and degrees being awarded through the 2021-22 academic year.  The pandemic has exacerbated ongoing negative pressure on...
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State of select technical skills in academic programs and the workforce

November 18, 2022
In 2021 and 2022, the Geoscience COVID-19 Survey asked about the importance of and proficiency with select technical skills to working in the geoscience profession. In our previous data brief (DB-2022-008), we examined study participants’ views on the importance of these skills to the profession....
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Changes in perceived importance of select technical skills to the geoscience profession

August 22, 2022
In 2021 and 2022, we surveyed participants in the Geoscience COVID-19 Survey about their views on the importance of select technical skills to work­ing in the geoscience profession. Across participant cohorts, the skills rated most important to working in the geoscience profession were data...
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Geoscience Median Salaries Decline in 2021

June 27, 2022
Overall, geoscience median salaries declined by 2% between 2020 and 2021, lagging other science occupa­tions which increased by 4%, but not other engineering occupations which declined by 4%. The greatest increases in median salaries within the geosciences were geoscience civil engineers (+8%),...
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Responding to the Pandemic through Flexible Working Arrangements

June 17, 2022
Throughout the pandemic, work environments have shifted between virtual, in-person and hybrid scenarios. Remote-first work policies, which allow employees to choose their work location for any given day, have enabled workplaces to more quickly adapt to changing pandemic conditions. Furthermore,...
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COVID-19 Impacts Study: Employment Status of Recent Graduates

May 23, 2022
Of all participants in the Geoscience COVID-19 Impacts study, recent geoscience graduates have been the most vulnerable to employment disruptions during the pandemic. However, the study results indicate that the most recent geoscience graduates have either remained employed or gained employment...
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Pandemic Impacts to Instructional Formats through March 2022

May 06, 2022
Lecture course instructional modes During the pandemic, courses, labs, and field activities have rapidly shifted between online, in-person and hybrid modes of instruction in response to pandemic conditions. With mask mandates easing in early 2022 as the impacts of the Omicron surge waned, there...
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COVID-19 Impacts on Geoscience Business Staffing Through 2021

February 14, 2022
Staffing While the rate at which companies expected to increase per­manent staffing grew during the first half of 2021, companies became more cautious from August through October 2021 over concerns of impacts from the Delta variant. Growth expectations returned starting in November and December...
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COVID-19 Impacts on Geoscience Business Operations Through 2021

January 17, 2022
Financial Performance In 2021, geoscientist-employing organizations’ financial per­formance expectations shifted positively relative to 2020. In January 2021, nearly two-thirds of employers expected their financial performance for the year would be similar or higher than 2020, and by December 2021...
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Geoscience Employment Growth Continues Through 2021

January 07, 2022
This data brief examines the monthly employment trends for geoscience occupations and industry-level employment trends for the sectors in which geoscientists work. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey provides monthly occupational employment data, while data from the U.S....
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