Inspiring action 🦋 art and 🌍 science at the 2022 AGU Fall Meeting
By Alexandrina Garcia-Verdin, Developer Advocate, Geo for Environment
How many scientific events can you attend where all the attendees can pitch in to create a poem? For this and many other reasons, we love attending and presenting at the annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), taking place this year in Chicago, Dec. 12 to 16.
As the 25,000 researchers, scientists, educators, students, and policymakers who attend the Fall Meeting know, successful science depends on sharing our knowledge — not to mention sprinkling some inspiration and engagement into our collaborations and research. I’ll be joined at AGU by ten Google colleagues, ready to chat with booth visitors about Google Earth and Earth Engine. And we plan to contribute to the AGU22 Community Poem that will ask all of us to celebrate the combined powers of art and science.
If you’re coming to the Fall Meeting, below are our suggestions for meeting us at our booth, attending a Google Earth lightning talk or workshop, or choosing sessions about research that relies on Earth Engine or other Google technologies.
Some helpful resources as you create your AGU22 action plan:
- For descriptions of talks that include Google Earth technologies as well as the names and roles of the Googlers staffing our booth, visit our special AGU22 website.
- The full schedule of AGU sessions, workshops, keynotes, and lectures is here.
- Learn more about the fall meeting here, including registration and accommodations.
Visit our Google booth
We’re looking forward to saying hello at the Google booth (#1701 — we are right at the entrance), and guiding you to Google-related events at AGU22. The map on our AGU22 website will help you locate our booth, which will be staffed at these days and times:
- Monday, Dec. 12, 3pm-6pm CST
- Tuesday, Dec. 13, 10am-6pm CST
- Wednesday, Dec. 14, 10am-6pm CST
- Thursday, Dec. 15, 10am-1pm CST
Come to our booth’s lightning talks
We’ll host more than 30+ lightning talks (10–15 mins each) from our booth podium, presented by members of the Geo community of users and partners, and Googlers. Topics include research developed via Earth and Earth Engine tools. You’ll find the full schedule of lightning talks before the weekend AGU starts, on our website https://agu.earthoutreach.org
Attend a workshop on our near real-time land cover and change detection dataset called “Dynamic World “
On Saturday, Dec. 10, 9am to 1pm CST, Googlers Tanya Birch and Tyler Erickson will present the workshop “Applying Dynamic World for Land Cover Understanding in Google Earth Engine,” teaching skills for processing Dynamic World, a 9-class land use land cover (LULC) probability dataset. The workshop, which takes place at McCormick Place, S106a (South, Level 1) will feature use cases and early findings from the dataset to help spur fresh research.
👉Sign up for the workshop here and read more details about the workshop.
Sessions you won’t want to miss
Of course, we think all of the AGU sessions are amazing, but we’ve singled out some of the sessions where Earth Engine and Google Earth play a role in the outcome. We hope you take some time to enjoy these presentations. The full list is here.
- Urban Heat Island Education: Engaging Students in Remote Sensing Applications and Climate Justice on Monday, 12 December, 8:30am to 08:40am CST
- Relationships between Air Pollution and Income in Canadian Metropolitan Areas on Monday, 12 December 5:31pm to 5:41pm CST
- Development of a Flood Risk Modeling System for Enhanced Resilience of Rural Regions on Monday, 12 December, 9:00am to 12:30pm CST
- Resilience Analysis of Florida Panhandle’s Transmission Grid to High Winds on Monday, 12 December, 9:00am to 12:30pm CST
- Animal Movement and Remote Sensing Reveal Range-wide Variation in Individual and Population Environmental Niches on Monday, 12 December, 9:20am to 9:30am CST
- Decadal Shoreline Change Detection Using Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS): The Case of Northern Maharashtra, India on Monday, 12 December, 11:30am to 11:40am CST
- Mapping Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Southern Ghana Using Different Time-Series Algorithms on Monday, 12 December, 12:10pm to 12:20pm CST
- Landscapes of the Tiger: Near-real-time Monitoring of Habitat Change for Panthera tigris through Synthesis of Earth Observations and Field Data on Monday, 12 December, 3:35pm — 3:45pm CST
- A Toolkit for Water Quality Monitoring from 2002–2022 in Support of Sustainable Development Goal 14 and Coral Health in Marine Protected Areas in Belize on Tuesday, 13 December, 9:00am to 12:30pm CST
- Climate Resilience Assessment Framework for Soil and Groundwater Contamination and Waste Disposal Cells: Demonstration at the 118 Department of Energy’s Legacy Sites Across the US on Tuesday, 13 December, 9:00am to 12:30pm CST
Join us in following #AGUGoogle22 on social, and do come by our booth to say hello. We’re looking forward to meeting you. Also take a few seconds to leave some words on the AGU22 Community Poem site. Have a fantastic week at AGU!
