November 2023 Newsletter

A Heartfelt Congratulations to the AGU Biogeosciences 2023 Honorees!

AGU Fellows
Scott Goetz, Northern Arizona University
Victoria Meadows, University of Washington
Patrick Megonigal, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Dianne Newman, California Institute of Technology
Cathy Whitlock, Montana State University
Robert Yokelson, University of Montana

Eunice Newton Foote Medal for Earth-Life Science
Everett Shock, Arizona State University

Sulzman Award for Scientific Excellence Through Education and Mentoring
Magdalena Osburn, Northwestern University

William S. and Carelyn Y. Reeburgh Lecture
Whendee Silver, University of California, Berkeley

Thomas Hilker Award
Nicholas Ward, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

AGU Biogeosciences is Offering Academic Job Market Mentoring Hour

Every other Friday at 1pm eastern join us via zoom for an hour of free mentoring and advice on the Academic Job Market from Assistant Professors who have recently gone through the process. We have an excellent line up! Register for free here.

Registration for AGU23 is Open

Registration and Housing for the AGU23 meeting (11-15 December in San Francisco) is open! The early bird registration discount is available through 2 November 2023 - so be sure to act soon to get this discounted rate! You can register here.

When you register for the meeting, please consider taking a few extra minutes to donate to the Biogeosciences Section here. Donations support a wide range of activities, including travel and caregiver awards, which help increase diversity, equity and inclusion at the AGU23 meeting, as well as OSPA awards to honor student presenters, early career workshops, networking activities and more!

A contribution of $50 or more makes you an individual donor, which qualifies you for an incentive program that helps increase funds available for each section. More specifically, starting at 5% participation from primary affiliated Biogeosciences members, AGU will give our section additional funds for section-based activities. The greater the participation, the greater the contribution from AGU to our section.

An Update From the Soils Committee

The Soils Processes and Critical Zone Technical Committee is pleased to give an update on activities and events related to soil processes and the critical zone at AGU. Please see the newsletter posted on the AGU Biogeosciences website here. 

Enter the AGU23 Photo Contest for a chance to win a free registration to AGU24. Participants should share a social media post with #AGUOpenScience and submit their contest entry form by 6 November. View the complete contest rules on the website.

Yours,

Colleen Hansel, Section President
Tana Wood, Section Secretary
Emily Bernhardt, Section President-Elect, Fellows Committee Chair
Margaret Torn, Section Past President, Canvassing Committee Chair
Derek Pierson, Section Webmaster
Laura Meredith, Fall Meeting Program Chair
Maya Almaraz and Jesse Bloom Bateman, Chairs, DEI Committee
Stephanie Pennington, Chair, Early Career Committee
Jingyi Huang, Chair, Soils Processes and Critical Zone Technical Committee
Ashley Ballantyne, Chair, Outstanding Student Presentation Award Committee