American Geophysical Union

AGU IS AN INTERNATIONAL NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION SUPPORTING AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY OF EARTH AND SPACE SCIENTISTS AND PARTNERS DEDICATED TO DISCOVERY AND SOLUTIONS TO SOCIETAL CHALLENGES.

PUBLICATIONS - AGU PUBLISHES 22 JOURNALS PRESENTING PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH PAPERS, AS WELL AS NUMEROUS BOOKS. THESE PUBLICATIONS COVER THE EARTH SCIENCES, PLANETARY SCIENCES, SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL AND SPACE PHYSICS, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES. MANY OF THE PAPERS ARE USED IN IMPORTANT ASSESSMENTS SUCH AS THE IPCC. AGU HAS 5 FULLY OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS WHERE CONTENT IS FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE IMMEDIATELY UPON PUBLICATION AND 16 HYBRID JOURNALS WHERE READERS WILL FIND SOME ARTICLES AVAILABLE VIA OPEN ACCESS AND OTHERS ONLY ACCESSIBLE VIA SUBSCRIPTION OR PURCHASE. ALL AGU JOURNAL CONTENT IS AVAILABLE ONLINE WHILE BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AND IN PRINT. AGU PUBLICATIONS REACH MANY SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS BEYOND THE AGU MEMBERSHIP, AS WELL AS OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, THROUGH MORE THAN 5,800 LIBRARIES, AND CONTENT AFTER 1997 AND OLDER THAN 24 MONTHS IS FREELY AVAILABLE. PUBLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN OVER 150 COUNTRIES. AGU PUBLISHES MORE THAN 6,940 ARTICLES ANNUALLY.

MEETING: AGU HAS A DIVERSE MEETING PORTFOLIO THAT OFFERS MEETINGS OF VARIOUS SIZES AND FORMATS. MOST MEETING PARTICIPANTS PRESENT A POSTER AND/OR A TALK ON THEIR LATEST SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS CONTRIBUTING TO ADVANCING EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE. INDIVIDUALS MUST PAY A REGISTRATION FEE TO PARTICIPATE. THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS COVERING THEIR PRESENTATIONS ARE PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM FOR EACH MEETING AND ARE AVAILABLE VIA AGU'S WEBSITE.THE AGU FALL MEETING IS RECOGNIZED AS THE LEADING MEETING IN THE EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES COMMUNITY WITH PROGRAMMING FOCUSED ON INTER- AND MULTIPLE DISCIPLINARY SCIENCES AND POLICY AND SOCIETAL ISSUES. IT IS THE LARGEST MEETING IN THIS FIELD ATTRACTING MORE THAN 20,000 PARTICIPANTS AT THE DECEMBER 2021 MEETING. THE MEETING GENERATES HUNDREDS OF PRESS AND MEDIA STORIES ABOUT EARTH AND SCIENCE IN PROMINENT SOURCES THROUGH DISTRIBUTION ON THE TELEVISION, NEWSPRINT AND THROUGH OTHER ELECTRONIC OUTLETS.THE CHAPMAN CONFERENCES AND AFFILIATED MEETINGS ARE SMALL TOPICAL CONFERENCES THAT FOCUS ON CURRENT AND EMERGING SCIENCE ISSUES. THE OCEAN VISIONS SUMMIT, AN AFFILIATED MEETING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OCEAN VISIONS, WAS HELD VIRTUALLY IN MAY 2022 WITH APPROXIMATELY 2,000 ONLINE ATTENDEES. THE MEETING FOCUSED ON POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS FOR OCEANIC PROBLEMS. THE NATURAL HAZARDS ALERTS AFFILIATED MEETING WAS HELD IN MAY 2022 WITH SEVERAL HUNDRED ATTENDEES FOCUSED ON MITIGATION STRATEGIES FOR NATURAL HAZARD ISSUES. THE NEAR-SURFACE IMAGING WITH FULL WAVEFORM INVERSION THEORY AND APPLICATIONS ONLINE CONFERENCES WAS HELD AS ONLINE WORKSHOPS FROM SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2021 FOR APPROXIMATELY 70 ATTENDEES.

COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA, PROGRAMS SEEK TO: 1) BUILD AND MAINTAIN AGU'S REPUTATION AS A LEADER, COLLABORATOR AND SOUGHT AFTER PARTNER WITHIN AND OUTSIDE OF THE EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE COMMUNITY; 2) PROMOTE AGU AND ITS PROGRAMS, INITIATIVES AND SERVICES TO CURRENT AND POTENTIAL MEMBERS, AS WELL AS TO THE BROADER EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE COMMUNITY; AND 3) EDUCATE THE PUBLIC, AT ALL LEVELS AND ACROSS ALL SECTORS, ON THE IMPORTANCE AND IMPACT OF THE EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY AS IT RELATES TO SOCIETAL WELL-BEING. MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THESE AREAS DURING THE 2021 FISCAL YEAR INCLUDE: EXPANDING EOS.ORG, A NEWS WEBSITE DEDICATED TO PROVIDING TRUSTWORTHY NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES ABOUT THE EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES AND THEIR IMPACT, AS WELL AS A BI-WEEKLY NEWS MAGAZINE; REFRAMING AND RELAUNCHING THE SHARING SCIENCE PROGRAM, WHICH SEEKS TO EDUCATE AND EMPOWER SCIENTISTS TO SHARE THEIR KNOWLEDGE WITH THE PUBLIC.