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
Thomas Fire, Ventura, CA, Los Padres National Forest, 2017; Image Credit: USFS / Photo by Kari Greer CC BY 2.0

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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Building the Modern World: Geoscience that Underlies our Economic Prosperity

Wednesday, August 2, 2017 3:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar, also presented as a Congressional briefing on June 12th, brings together experts from industry, academia, and non-profits to discuss the geoscientific underpinnings of our economy and society.
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State Responses to Induced Earthquakes

Friday, April 14, 2017 | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar features experts from state government in Oklahoma, Texas, and Ohio, who will discuss the range of state-level actions and approaches taken by these three oil- and gas-rich states to monitor and reduce the occurrence of induced earthquakes.
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Data as a National Asset for Decision-Making

Monday, July 25, 2016 | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar is based on a Congressional briefing organized by the Advances in Earth Science coalition (22 June 2016). The webinar features experts from industry, academia, and state and federal government agencies, who will discuss how Earth Science data is collected, used, and disseminated. Speakers will address current protocols and future endeavors in data collection.
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Communicating Cascadia's Earthquake Risk

Friday, October 16, 2015 | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
Geoscience research is at the forefront of characterizing the earthquake risks associated with the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest. This webinar informs listeners of the science and its implications for policy decisions and resiliency efforts. During the webinar, the three presenters will provide an overview of what we know about the Cascadia subduction zone and the associated...
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Induced Seismicity in the Midcontinent

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
This webinar provides current information about induced seismic activity in the United States, specifically in the mid-continent, and includes information on mitigation planning, the current state of seismic monitoring at the state level, and the challenges in communicating the science of the issue to the public and decision-makers.
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Mapping Displacement and Subsidence with Time-series Radar

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGI Webinars
In this webinar, experts from Hexagon and the Arizona Department of Water Resources will discuss the use of time-series displacement maps with a high point density for monitoring and mitigating subsidence due to subsurface extraction of resources such as water or hydrocarbons.
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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.
Landslide in Big Sur, California, July 2017. Image credit: U.S. Geological Survey

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.

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Application of Geologic Mapping in Geothermal Energy

Thursday, August 15, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: Early Career Professionals in Mapping Webinar Series
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In this free webinar, Nolan Dellerman, a geologist with Cyrq Energy, will discuss his background and work related to geothermal energy.

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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Skills for the Future - Geoscience Employment and Careers

Friday, September 6, 2024 1:00 PM EDT | 1 hour
Series: AGU/AGI Heads and Chairs
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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. The presentation will lead into a discussion among participants about what they are seeing for their recent graduates and what that means for the next couple years.

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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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