Distributed Sensing Technical Committee at AGU25

Distributed Sensing at AGU25

The Distributed Sensing Technical Committee (DS TC) members are leading several important community events at AGU25. Please join us to connect and share our science, meet old and new colleagues, and inform community planning and priorities. 

Connect with the Distributed Sensing Community. AGU25: Where Science Connects Us

Student & Early Career Mixer @ AGU25!

Mark your calendars! The Distributed Sensing Technical Committee is excited to invite all students and early-career researchers to a casual social mixer. This is a great opportunity to connect with peers, discuss your research, and unwind before the busy conference week ahead. We’ll provide light appetizers. Drinks & additional food available for purchase.
🗓️ Date: Monday, 15 December 2025
🕖 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM 
📍 Location: Headquarters by NGN, 445 S Rampart Street, New Orleans

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Distributed Sensing Technical Committee Social @ AGU25!

Flyer for the social. Click to download.

Mark your calendars! Join the Distributed Sensing Technical Committee and the Near Surface Geophysics section for an informal evening social get together at AGU25. New folks and long-time researchers are all welcome. Bring your colleagues! Questions? Contact Stephen Moysey (moyseys18@ecu.edu).
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, 17 December
🕖 Time: 7:00–9:00 PM 
📍 Location: Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St, New Orleans, LA 70130
 
Note:
  • Outside space has been reserved. 
  • This is ~ 0.3 to 0.6 mi walk from the Convention Center, depending on where in the Convention Center you are coming from.
  • The Rusty Nail offers both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. 
  • Light sides are available for order at the bar, through the Sidecar, a small restaurant next door.

Distributed Sensing Science Exchange

SE23B: Advancing Community Collaboration Across AGU Sections to Support the Advancement of Distributed Sensing Instrument, Data, and Software Standards and Practices in the Earth and Space Sciences

Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 2:15-3:45PM, Convention Center 343

https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Session/275606

How can AGU facilitate collaborations across Sections to help you get the data you need?  

Collecting data with sensors is important in all domains of Earth and Space Sciences. Yet many challenges in sensing are shared across domains. Participants in this Science Exchange will initiate a community-driven, AGU-wide agenda for identifying and advancing standards and practices in distributed sensing through AGU’s new Distributed Sensing Technical Committee. All sections are invited!

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New for AGU25: Distributed Sensing Exhibit Hall Tours

The AGU Distributed Sensing Technical Committee is excited to partner with AGU’s Open Science Team to pilot a new initiative that will expand opportunities for discovery and collaboration through volunteer-led tours of the AGU25 Exhibit Hall.


Tour guides are AGU community members who will lead small groups on scientific expeditions of the exhibit hall throughout the week of AGU. Each guide has identified exhibitors that fit within a scientific theme of their choice. Tour participants will have the opportunity to connect with each other to share their experiences and questions, talk with exhibitors, and engage in discussion at each stop on the tours.


Visit the tour website to learn more and sign up to join a tour. Interested participants are encouraged to sign up in advance to help us plan!

The MacGyver Sessions

As you make plans for New Orleans, be sure to come by and visit any or all of the five MacGyver Sessions that occur throughout the week. These four poster sessions and one oral session showcase the myriad ways in which scientists have hacked together instruments, sensors, and methods to further their work. The “MacGyver Sessions” are the place for all who both are and appreciate invention in all forms. Don’t miss this chance to see how your fellow scientists are applying novel solutions to problems in their — and your! — fields.

Interested in how the MacGyver sessions have evolved over the years? Learn more about the history and plans for AGU25 in this December 2025 EOS article.

MacGyver Session QR Code

Town Halls

There are two great Town Halls of direct relevance to our community that you have been invited to attend by the organizers.

GeoFAIR: Connecting and strengthening the data and digital object needs of researchers with the tools and infrastructure that can make a difference (TH15J)

Monday, December 15, 6:00-7:00PM, New Orleans Convention Center 272-273

https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Session/251424

Challenged with where to find data (or other digital objects); where to share your data; or how to ensure you are aligned with what your community recommends? We invite you to learn about a new initiative led by AGU, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and the University of Arizona to better connect researchers across the globe with the supporting digital object infrastructure for the purpose of easing the burden of finding, evaluating, and using data and/or other digital objects. We are initially focused on the digital objects used in Ocean, Seismology, and Hydrology research — but all are welcome to learn more. 

Wednesday, December 17, 6:00-7:00PM, New Orleans Convention Center Theater https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Session/247961 
 
Technologically-driven innovation can facilitate new observations and increased insight into geophysics and Earth processes, but often require funding and expertise beyond the capacity of many potential users. National Science Foundation (NSF) Facilities offer geophysical resources to researchers to shortcut the costs and training necessary to use cutting-edge technologies, which is particularly important during times of reduced science funding and support. Additionally, such facilities help communicate best-practices for data synthesis and support FAIR data repositories associated with particular geophysical sub-disciplines. 
 
This town hall will attempt to
  • Raise awareness of current facilities, tools, and training programs,
  • Deliver updates on new initiatives for facilities,
  • Create a roundtable to strategize emerging user needs, better application of existing technologies, new technologies, and new facility needs.

Town Hall Flyer

Even More Sessions at AGU!

Also mark your itinerary for these other exciting sessions related to distributed sensing:

Distributed Sensing Related Workshops

(Advance registration required.)