Webinars

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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Equity in Graduate Admissions

Friday, March 6, 2020 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour 30 mins
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
This webinar and discussion session presents data and research about the role of typical admissions criteria and practices in maintaining racial/ethnic inequalities in graduate education.
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Aligning Geoscience Research Incentives

Friday, February 7, 2020 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
This webinar explores emerging disciplinary norms and practices that create better alignment between how scholars share their research and how they are rewarded. The webinar will be led be representatives from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science, a multiyear project convening critical stakeholders to fundamentally...
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A Look at the Current Trends in Geoscience Workforce

Friday, November 22, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
A guided discussion about the current state of the geoscience workforce and what the most recent data is indicating about emerging trends in skills, employment, and investment in the geosciences.  This discussion will be lead by AGI's Workforce Program.
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Improving Earthquake Resiliency Through the Use of Post-Earthquake Clearinghouses

Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar provides an overview of earthquake risk in the U.S. and explores the importance of coordinated post-earthquake response and the effectiveness of post-earthquake technical clearinghouses in improving earthquake resiliency.
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Open Discussion on Best Practices to Boost Enrollments while Maintaining Academic Rigor

Friday, October 11, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
An open discussion on the challenges of balancing the need to grow enrollment but doing so without sacrificing quality or rigor in your program.
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The Latest from the Summit Series on Undergraduate and Graduate Geoscience Education

Friday, September 13, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
A discussion lead by Sharon Mosher (University of Texas) and Jeff Ryan (University of South Florida) about the work being currently done relative to a summit series on graduate geoscience education, and an update on the next steps from the summit series on undergraduate education.

Open Conversation Between New and Current Chairs on Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Friday, May 17, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
An open discussion for current and new chairs to share their ideas, concerns, and best practices in an effort to strengthen all geoscience programs.

Preventing Bullying and Harassment in the Field

Friday, April 19, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
An open conversation and discussion about best approaches to dealing with the unique issues of harassment in the field.   Discussion will be lead by Erika Marin-Spiotta, U of Wisconsin and Meredith Hastings, Brown University who serve on the ADVANCEGeo research team.
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Identifying and Reducing Landslide Risk

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar provides an overview of landslide risk assessment and landslide impacts in the United States, discusses various policy approaches and funding for landslide risk mapping, and features case studies of work done with communities to reduce landslide risk.

Implementing Effective Field Safety Policies

Friday, April 5, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
 A webinar and discussion focused on current best practices related to safety procedures for geoscience field trips as well as field camps.  Discussion will be lead by Jinny Sisson, University of Houston; Alex Robinson, University of Houston; and John Weber, Grand Valley State University. Additional Resources:

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Upcoming Webinars

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Becoming an Alaskan Soil Scientist

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Early Career Professionals in Mapping Webinar Series
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In this free webinar, Claire Benton, a soil scientist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), will discuss her work with soil classification and mapping in Alaska.

AGI's Early Career Professionals in Mapping Webinar Series features early career geoscience professionals who share their work related to mapping, especially geologic mapping, and experiences entering the geoscience community.

Supporting faculty through the tenure process: A community discussion

Friday, October 11, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
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Procedures and support structures for new faculty going up for tenure and promotion vary between departments and institutions. Department heads and chairs, however, are responsible for providing leadership in creating expectations, managing the process, and reducing barriers for those going through the tenure and promotion process. Please join this community discussion to share and learn from each other about tips and strategies on how you have successfully guided your faculty through this and supported their advancement and personal growth.

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Views from Above and Below: Supporting Sustainability with Earth Observations

Monday, October 14, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
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Plastics in the Environment and Human Health

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 10 mins
Series: Earth Science Week
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Impact Craters and Geologic Mapping on the Earth and Moon

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
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Earth Science at the Poles

Thursday, October 17, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
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Common Ground: Healing Our Soil, Feeding the Future

Friday, October 18, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
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Geospatial Technology in NRCS: From the data to the field

Thursday, November 14, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Early Career Professionals in Mapping Webinar Series
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In this free webinar, Britney Allen, a soil scientist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), will discuss her work in soil conservation, the use of technology in soil mapping, and dynamic soil properties.

AGI's Early Career Professionals in Mapping Webinar Series features early career geoscience professionals who share their work related to mapping, especially geologic mapping, and experiences entering the geoscience community.

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Shaping tomorrow's geoscientists: Navigating workforce trends and empowering student transitions

Friday, November 15, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chair
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Join us for a discussion looking at key data on changes in the geoscience workforce with a deeper dive into the implications, and also a discussion with participants about the art of the possible to make student to workforce transitions successful.

 

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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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