GEOG Shines Bright at AGU 2023: A Highlight of Our Faculty and Students' Contributions in Earth and Space Sciences

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This year, about 50 GEOG faculty and students will be participating in the 2023 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Read below for some highlights of our department’s contributions to the most significant Earth and space sciences conference of the year.

GEOG members are participating in a total of 89 presentations. 

This number reflects all presentations authored or coauthored by GEOG faculty and students. GEOG members are first authors on 49 of these presentations, which will take place in oral, poster, and online formats. The presentations span a wide range of topics including Earth observation and machine learning for crop monitoring, wildfires, forest carbon monitoring, sustainable agriculture, land cover and land use change, biodiversity conservation, global health and more. 

Over 20 sessions were organized by GEOG researchers. 

All presentations taking place at AGU are organized into theme-based sessions. This year, 21 of these sessions were convened or chaired by GEOG faculty and students. A few highlights include:

  • “Early Warning Systems for Infectious Disease Based on Climate and Environmental Variability,” organized by Professor and Chair Tatiana Loboda and Assistant Research Professor Varada Shevade
  • “NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar Mission: Science, Applications, and Future Directions” organized by Associate Research Professor John Amrston, Ph.D Candidate Tiago de Conto and Associate Research Professor Hao Tang
  • “Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications,” organized by Professor George Hurtt and  Research Professor Molly Brown

GEOG students will make their mark with about 20 first author presentations.

As the world’s premier Earth and space sciences conference, AGU presents a unique opportunity for geography students to learn about the latest research on our planet and environment, network with seasoned experts, and present their own research in a professional setting—often for the first time. GEOG students, both undergraduate and graduate, are first authors on over 20 presentations and will be presenting their work in-person through talks and poster sessions. Some examples include:

  • “GEDI-FIA Fusion Enables Precise and Unbiased Biomass Estimation,” by Jamis Bruening
  • Ignite Talk: "Praying for Data: Does It Work?" by Walid Ouaret
  • “Rice paddy transplanting detection in the Korean Peninsula using multiple Earth Observation methods,” by Sheila Baber

Congratulations and good luck to all participating faculty and students! 

For a complete list of the department’s participation, view this spreadsheet. 

AGU 2023 is taking place from Dec. 11 to 15. Learn more about the conference.

 

Image: Screenshot from AGU23 website

Published on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 11:11