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

Friday, November 15, 2024 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour

Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chair

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.

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

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.

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Skills for the Future - Geoscience Employment and Careers

Friday, September 6, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour

Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs

The AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs webinar series is pleased to offer a free online webinar and discussion lead by Christopher Keane and Leila Gonzales from AGI about the latest data on how geoscience employment trends are changing within the U.S., including the skillsets that geoscientists will need to succeed in future geoscience careers.

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ADVANCEing FieldSafety: Training for diverse and inclusive geoscience teams – A new course and toolkit

Friday, May 3, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour

Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs

ADVANCEing FieldSafety (https://fieldsafe.colorado.edu/) is a program that provides field research teams with the training and tools to promote safe and inclusive environments, identify and mitigate unsafe and harmful behaviors, and create a culture within field teams that reduces the likelihood and impact of these behaviors in the future.

AGU Bridge Program: Making Progress on Equity in Geoscience Graduate Education

Friday, April 26, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour

Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs

The AGU Bridge Program is committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Earth and space sciences through the dissemination of leading practices in higher education and the facilitation of a graduate application pathway at our partner departments.

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Juggling work-life balance as a department chair: a community discussion

Friday, March 8, 2024 1:00 PM EST

Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs

Managing the demands of the day-to-day work, balancing the need for making progress on one's research, and seeking work-life balance often causes tension in the life of a department chair. Whether you have been a chair for a long time or are a fairly new chair, you have probably experienced this tension.

Changing the academic culture around mental health

Friday, February 9, 2024 1:00 PM EST | 1 hour

Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs

Mental health is a crucial issue in academia, but issues related to mental health and wellness are often swept under the rug, both at the individual and institutional levels. Mental health challenges can be particularly acute in geoscience, particularly in field, shipboard, laboratory, or virtual environments that are often isolating.

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Exploring Successes in Strengthening Enrollment and Managing Administrative Expectations, a Panel and Community Discussion

Friday, November 3, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour

Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs

The AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs webinar series is pleased to offer a free webinar that will feature a panel and community discussion about strengthening enrollment and managing administrative expectations. Our panelists are:

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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

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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Leveraging Data using a DEI Lens to Inform Programs and Policies at your Institution/Department

Friday, September 22, 2023 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour

Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs

This webinar will explore why applying a DEI lens to "data about people" is important, outline strategies to maximize impact of your data while reducing potential harm, and provide a detailed example of how Colorado School of Mines applied these strategies for investigating student retention of marginalized groups. Our panelists are:

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Upcoming Webinars

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Glacier Geomorphological Mapping for Climate Change

Thursday, January 16, 2025 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour

Series: Early Career Professionals in Mapping Webinar Series

In this webinar, Rebecca McCerery of Northumbria University, will discuss techniques for mapping glaciers in Svalbard, as well as data collection related to understanding the extent and history of these glaciers.

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.

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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