AGU Education Section Leadership - L. Lukes

Contact: llukes@gmu.edu

Education Section Role(s) and Service:

President (2025-present), President-elect (2023-2024), Geoscience Education Research (GER) Working Group Leader

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Dr. Laura Lukes is a geoscience education researcher and Director of the STEM Accelerator in George Mason University's College of Science. Previously, Dr. Lukes was an Assistant Professor in the Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of British Columbia (Canada), and the Assistant Director for Teaching Excellence in the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning at George Mason University (USA). Her professional contributions range from research to community capacity building. She is lead PI for EaSEIL, the Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning initiative, working to reimagine field-based science courses and study models of faculty and curricular development and instructor-Indigenous community partnerships. Dr. Lukes was the first president of NAGT GER Division and an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the National Science Foundation (2010-2011). She received the Biggs award for Earth Science Teaching and became a GSA fellow in 2017.