September 2023 Newsletter

Donate to AGU Biogeosciences and help us maintain and increase our activities!

AGU23 will be here before you know it! As you prepare to register for the Meeting, please consider donating to the Biogeosciences Section. Donations support a wide range of activities, including travel and caregiver awards, which help increase diversity, equity and inclusion at AGU23, as well as OSPA awards to honor student presenters, early career workshops, networking activities and more!

A contribution of $50 or more qualifies you to be 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. Please note that donations to AGU Biogeosciences is separate from meeting registration. You can access the web site to donate here.

Thank you everyone for your support!

Reminder!! Call for Caregiver Grant for #AGU23 Meeting (Deadline is 15 September)

Only a few days left to apply! The Caregiver Grant application is open NOW until 15 September 2023 at 11:59 EDT. These grants are reserved for applicants who are the primary caregiver for a dependent, have financial need and who may otherwise not have the opportunity to attend AGU23 without extra support. For more information and to apply click here.

Contact Stephanie Pennington with any questions. Awardees will be notified mid-October before the early bird registration deadline.

Help us understand more about your caregiver needs

AGU Biogeosciences is invested in understanding the needs of our community. We have developed a survey to provide insight into caregiver needs, which will help us to address barriers to participation in AGU23. You can access the form here.

Registration for AGU23 is now open!!

Housing and Registration for the AGU23 meeting (11-15 December in San Francisco) is now open! You can register here.

With the theme Wide. Open. Science., AGU23 will convene more than 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries in San Francisco and online everywhere on 11-15 December 2023. For more than 100 years, AGU has been committed to opening science, from fostering new pathways for discovery to championing DEI within the scientific community. Learn more about AGU's efforts to advance open science and follow #AGUOpenScience on Twitter, Instagram and Threads.

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