Showcasing Faculty and Student Excellence at AGU 2024

AGU

This year, about 65 GEOG faculty and students will be participating in the 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. 

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 96 presentations and counting. GEOG members are first authors on 74 of these presentations, which will take place in oral, poster and lightining talks. The presentations span a wide range of topics including Earth observation and machine learning for fire management, forest carbon monitoring, sustainable agriculture, land cover and land use change, public 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, 22 of these sessions were convened or chaired by GEOG faculty and students. A few highlights include:

  • "The Resilience and Vulnerability of Arctic and Boreal Ecosystems to Climate Change I Oral,” organized by Associate Research Professor Dong Chen
  • “Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications,” organized by Associate Chair and Professor George Hurtt
  • “Advances of Remote Sensing Inversion,” organized by Research Professor Jean-Claude Roger
  • "Building more effective knowledge-action systems for sustainable futures through global research networks: The Global Land Programme (GLP) of Future Earth," presented by Associate Research Professor Ariade de Bremond

GEOG students will make their mark with more than 25first 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 are first authors on over 25 presentations and will be presenting their work in-person through talks and poster sessions. Some examples include:

  • “Hurricane Ian Insurance Transfers across Socio-Demographic Dimensions,” by Triet Nguyen
  • "Improving near-coastal lead classification and freeboard measurements from ICESat-2" by Monojit Saha
  • “Reconciling Remote Sensing and Survey-based Cropland Area Estimates in Africa,” by Adebowale Daniel Adebayo

See the list here

Image: Screenshot from AGU24 website

Published on Thu, 12/05/2024 - 15:05