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August 28, 2019
Women’s Equality Week Q&A with Kelsi Singer
August 26th is Women’s Equality Day. To celebrate women’s contributions to Earth and space science, we’re devoting this week to featuring Q&As with inspirational women in STEM. #WomensEqualityDay! Today, we’re thrilled to feature Kelsi Singer, a Senior Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute and recipient of the 2019 Harold C. Urey Prize in Planetary Science. Kelsi received her PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. …
August 27, 2019
Women’s Equality Week Q&A with Alexis Wilson
August 26th is Women’s Equality Day. To celebrate women’s contributions to Earth and space science, we’re devoting this week to featuring Q&As with inspirational women in STEM. #WomensEqualityDay! Today, we’re excited to feature Alexis Wilson, who is starting her PhD in Earth System Science at Stanford University. Alexis received her B.S. in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences from Cornell University. Find Alexis online, on Twitter, @DrAlexisWilson, and on Instagram, @alexis_m_wilson. …
August 26, 2019
Women’s Equality Day Q&A with Bianca Vasquez
August 26th is Women’s Equality Day. To celebrate women’s contributions to Earth and space science, we’re devoting this week to featuring Q&As with inspirational women in STEM. #WomensEqualityDay! Today, we’re thrilled to feature Bianca Vasquez, Test Site Engineering-Propulsion Intern at Virgin Orbit and founder of the Society of Women in Space Exploration (SWISE). Bianca is studying Mechanical Engineering at Santa Barbara City College. Find Bianca and SWISE on social …
July 16, 2019
The Semicentennial of Apollo 11: A 50 Year-long Leap for Mankind
Elena Symmes is a 2019 summer intern with the Public Affairs team at AGU and a graduate student at the University of Virginia interested in American and environmental history. On July 20th 1969, the nervous occupants of the Mission Control room responsible for orchestrating the Apollo 11 moon landing erupted into cheers. They had just received confirmation that the risky mission to send Astronauts Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and …
June 27, 2019
Climate Change Threatens to Produce More Intense Hurricanes. Federal Funding Must Keep Up
Henry Potter earned a BS in geography at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and a PhD in applied marine physics at the University of Miami in Florida. He completed a postdoc at the Naval Research Laboratory Remote Sensing Division in Washington, DC and became an assistant professor of oceanography at Texas A&M University in 2016. Henry focuses his research on the marine boundary layer in order to better understand air-sea …
June 19, 2019
Creating a Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Coastal and Ocean Science Workforce
This piece was written by Brooke Carney, the Communications Lead for Sea Grant at NOAA, which includes leading the national external communications portfolio, coordinating internal communications for Sea Grant, and coordinating the Sea Grant Communications Network. You can read the original piece here. During Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) 2019, Sea Grant and the Women’s Aquatic Network collaborated to host a brown bag lunch session on Increasing Diversity, Equity …
June 3, 2019
House Spending Bills Boost Science Funding: Part 2
Before leaving for the Memorial Day recess, the House Committee on Appropriations finished consideration of the major science funding bills. We reviewed several spending bills already in part one of our budget breakdown. In this post, we’ll take a deeper dive into the spending bill that funds the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …
House Spending Bills Boost Science Funding: Part 1
Before leaving for the Memorial Day recess, the House Committee on Appropriations finished consideration of the major science funding bills, including the spending bills that fund the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Department of Energy, United States Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the United States Forest Service. Over the next two posts, we’ll detail the spending and programmatic highlights for federal Earth and space science agencies. …
May 28, 2019
Students in Science Policy: Science Policy Fellowships
Note: Katie was interviewed prior to the start of the 116th Congress. Are you nearing the end of your degree and not sure what to do next? A great way to jump into the science policy world is through the AGU Congressional Science Fellowship. Every year AGU sponsors a fellow to work in the offices of either an individual member of Congress or on a committee for a one-year …
May 15, 2019
Students in Science Policy: Science Policy Internships
Every summer and fall, AGU offers paid internships in our Public Affairs department. Interns tackle a range of tasks, from attending Congressional hearings to writing blog posts like this one! Our former intern Alison Evans is currently an associate at Lewis-Burke Associates LLC, a government relations and consulting firm in Washington DC, where she works with universities and non-profit science societies to advocate on behalf of the higher education and …
