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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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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Exploring for the Future International Showcase

  • Europe & Africa session: Thursday, August 11, 2022 04:30 AM EDT | 2 hours
  • Americas session: Thursday, August 11, 2022 2:00 PM EDT | 2 hours
Series: Exploring for the Future
By 2024 the Australian Government will have invested $225 million in an unprecedented level of precompetitive geoscience data acquisition and knowledge generation. Led by Australia’s national geoscience organisation, Geoscience Australia, the program is gathering and analysing geological, geochemical and geophysical data.
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Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative Update

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 3:00 PM EDT | 2 hours
Series: Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative
This forum will present an update on the Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative (CMMI), a joint research program between the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), the U.S. Geological Survey, and Geoscience Australia (GA).
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Learn About the AAAS Congressional Science Fellowship: Info Session Hosted by AGI, GSA, AGU's Current Fellows

Wednesday, December 8, 2021 3:00 PM EST | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar provides information for geoscientists interested in the AAAS Congressional Science Fellowship Program. The fellowship represents a unique opportunity to make practical contributions of geoscientific knowledge on issues relating to the environment, resources, natural hazards, and federal science policy.

Geoscience Research in National Parks: A Welcome and a How-to

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
What comes to mind when you think of national parks? Geysers? Canyons? Family vacations? If you’re like most of us, those are the images that you most often associate with parks. But how about research opportunities?
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Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative Forum

Monday, June 28, 2021 3:00 PM EDT | 2 hours
Series: Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative
The global economy is unprepared for the unprecedented growing demand for critical minerals. These materials are crucial for the proliferation of technologies and industries that have become vital for social and economic well-being the world over but they are vulnerable to supply disruption and have been of limited economic interest until recently.
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Advances in critical mineral research: A forum in memory of Victor Labson

  • Americas: 12 February 2021, 11:00-14:30 EST
  • Europe and Africa: 19 February 2021, 11:00-14:30 CET
  • Asia and Oceania: 26 February 2021, 11:00-14:30 AWST
Series: Critical Minerals Forum
Organized by the Geological Survey of Canada, Geoscience Australia, and the United States Geological Survey Sponsored by the World Community of Geological Surveys and hosted by the American Geosciences Institute
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Earth Scientists in Congress: Life on the Hill during a Pandemic and National Election

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 3:00PM EST | 1 hour
Five current Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows share insights from their first two months on working as staff members for Congressional offices and Committees and ways earth scientists at all career stages can get involved in federal science policy. The panel of fellows will share their thoughts for ~30 minutes and then open the floor for audience questions.  
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Adapting Wildfire Management to 21st Century Conditions

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar explores recent trends in wildfires and changes in contributing factors / drivers of these hazards and features case studies of wildfire policy and management strategies in the western and southern United States.
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Tracking the Global Supply of Critical Materials

Friday, January 26, 2018 11:00 AM EST (4:00 PM UTC) | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar focuses on U.S. and European Union (EU) efforts to gather information and develop tools that can be used to ensure a secure national and global supply of mineral resources; identify and quantify vulnerabilities in this supply; and stimulate national and international co-operation, education and outreach, and innovation in the development, recycling, and substitution of key mineral...

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Application of Field Techniques and Technology in Geologic Mapping

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Early Career Professionals in Mapping
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In this webinar, Valarie Harrison, an Environmental Scientist at the Nashville Office of the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation will discuss her background, education, and work with geologic maps.

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. This webinar series is geared towards high school students and the general public.

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Collectors, Nightlights, & Allies, Oh My! : Advice for Strengthening Cross-Racial Mentoring Relationships

Friday, October 6, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
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In this webinar our speaker, Dr. Martinez-Cola, a social scientist at Morehouse College, identifies and describes three types of mentoring relationships she has encountered throughout her academic journey.  Through a combination of storytelling and information sharing, she hopes to inspire self-reflection that can lead to a deeper understanding of both mentors and protégés.

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Partnerships Provide Safe Drinking Water to Rural Communities

Monday, October 9, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
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Geoscientists can form innovative relationships in order to solve problems that a community may face. Speakers in this webinar will share how scientists and students have worked together and used a variety of techniques to locate safe drinking water for rural communities. This webinar is part of the 2023 Earth Science Week webinar series.

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Drones for Earth Science

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
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Drones allow us to study the Earth in new ways. The collected data can help monitor phenomena such as natural hazards, climate change, and resource extraction. This webinar will explore many ways that drones are being used in the geosciences, including recent drone innovations and classroom applications. This webinar is part of the 2023 Earth Science Week webinar series.

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Photogrammetry: Introduction and Applications in Geoscience and Geoscience Education

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
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Three-dimensional models can be used to inspect samples, such as rocks or corals, and model environmental changes over time. Speakers will introduce photogrammetry, a method for creating 3D models, and its many applications in geoscience education and research during this webinar. This webinar is part of the 2023 Earth Science Week webinar series.

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The Future of Earth's Critical Materials

Thursday, October 12, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
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Critical minerals, and more broadly critical materials, are essential for many industries and products, but the availability of these materials is at risk. This webinar will introduce what critical minerals are as well as an innovative method for locating them. There is also an introduction to critical materials, including ways in which students, educators, and the public can engage with them. This webinar is part of the 2023 Earth Science Week webinar series.

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The Invisible Mine: envisioning the future of mining in Europe

Friday, October 13, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Earth Science Week
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This presentation will explore emerging robotic technologies set to revolutionise the future of mining. Cutting-edge innovations in AI-guided robotic mining pods and advanced selective mining processes funded by EU research programmes will be covered. The talk will showcase how the uptake of robotic technologies can minimise social and environmental impacts through improvements in safety, efficiency, resource utilisation and the radical reduction of surface footprints.

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Geologic Mapping in​ Glaciated Terrains

Thursday, November 2, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Early Career Professionals in Mapping
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In this webinar, Kaleb Wagner, a PhD student at Czech Academy of Sciences, will discuss “Geologic mapping in glaciated terrains” and his work with the Minnesota Geological Survey.

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. This webinar series is geared towards high school students and the general public.

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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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