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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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.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar provides insight into the technical writing skills that are needed by geoscience students pursuing careers in the environmental consulting industry. Speakers discuss skills that are developed during undergraduate or graduate academic training, types of written products that are developed by geoscientists in the environmental consulting industry, training and professional development...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar provides insight into the professional and technical writing skills that are needed by geoscience students pursuing careers in state government agencies. Speakers will discuss skills that are developed during students’ undergraduate and graduate academic training, types of written products that are developed by geoscientists in state agencies, training and professional development...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 30 mins
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar is designed to be the first in a series of state specific geology licensure webinars building on the topic overview provided in the Professional Geologist Licensure Requirements and the ASBOG National Geology License Examinations webinar. This webinar will focus on the qualification requirements to get a Professional Geologist (PG) license in California and upcoming changes that...
Thursday, March 14, 2019 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
Communicating results of geoscience investigations to a diverse set of audiences will grow in importance in our 21st century world. Story maps are web mapping applications that provide geoscientists with the ability to combine 2D and 3D maps, audio, video, photographs, and narrative that can be shared with research colleagues, or the general public, and embedded in web pages and online...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour 30 minutes
Series: AGI Webinars
The purpose of professional licensing is to ensure a minimum level of competency for practitioners in a given field in order to protect the public. Having a license to practice geology is a requirement in the majority of United States, Canada and several other countries. In contrast to other professions, a disconnect has developed between applied geologists and academia. Professional licensing...
Thursday, August 30, 2018 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 20 min
Series: AGI Webinars
The glacial and bedrock geology of New England is varied and complex. This webinar takes you on a journey through the formation of these geological features and then provides information on why a groundwater well in this geological terrane needs to be re-developed and what indicators to look for to know when a well needs to be re-developed. We will introduce and explain the term specific capacity...
Thursday, April 26, 2018 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar will provide an overview of the writing skills that geoscience students develop during their undergraduate and graduate academic training, the skills and tools that are needed for non-academic careers, and advice for students on how to acquire the needed writing skills as they prepare for and pursue their career path. This is the first of a series of webinars on developing writing...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour 30 min
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar will provide an insight into the federal grant proposal opportunities available for geoscience students pursuing careers within academia. Speakers from four federal agencies will discuss the nuances of each of their individual programs as well as provide some advice on how to submit successful applications. This webinar will introduce a variety of federal fellowship programs, examine...
Friday, May 11, 2018 1:00PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
This webinar will look at the latest data from various AGI surveys on workforce, which will shed light on the current state of geoscience programs, student experiences, and a view of long-term trends. In addition, several emerging trends regarding what the future of geoscience work will look like will be discussed, especially the impact of technologies such as machine learn
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