American Geophysical Union – GuideStar Profile

MEETINGS: AGU HAS A DIVERSE MEETING PORTFOLIO THAT OFFERS MEETINGS OF VARIOUS SIZES AND FORMATS. MOST MEETING PARTICIPANTS PRESENT A POSTER AND/OR A TALK ON THEIR LATEST SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS CONTRIBUTING TO ADVANCING EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE. INDIVIDUALS MUST PAY A REGISTRATION FEE TO PARTICIPATE. THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS COVERING THEIR PRESENTATIONS ARE PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM FOR EACH MEETING AND AVAILABLE VIA AGU’S WEBSITE.THE AGU FALL MEETING IS RECOGNIZED AS THE LEADING MEETING IN THE EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES COMMUNITY WITH PROGRAMMING FOCUSED ON INTER- AND MULTIPLE DISCIPLINARY SCIENCES AND POLICY AND SOCIETAL ISSUES. IT IS THE LARGEST MEETING IN THIS FIELD ATTRACTING MORE THAN 27,000 PARTICIPANTS AT THE DECEMBER 2019 MEETING. THE MEETING GENERATES HUNDREDS OF PRESS AND MEDIA STORIES ABOUT EARTH AND SCIENCE IN PROMINENT SOURCES THROUGH DISTRIBUTION ON THE TELEVISION, NEWS PRINT AND THROUGH OTHER ELECTRONIC OUTLETS.THE CHAPMAN CONFERENCES ARE SMALL TOPICAL CONFERENCES THAT FOCUS ON CURRENT AND EMERGING SCIENCE ISSUES. FIVE CHAPMAN CONFERENCES WERE HELD IN 2019. OF THE FIVE CONFERENCES, THREE WERE HELD IN THE UNITED STATES, ONE WAS HELD IN ICELAND AND ONE WAS HELD IN SPAIN. ATTENDANCE RANGED FROM BETWEEN 44 AND 140 PARTICIPANTS. THE ASTROBIOLOGY CONFERENCE (ABSCICON) IS AN ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASTROBIOLOGY COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NASA. THE 2019 MEETING WAS HELD AT THE HYATT REGENCY BELLEVUE IN BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON. THE MEETING FOCUSES ON ALL AREAS OF ASTROBIOLOGY INCLUDING OCEAN WORLDS, EXOPLANETS AND THE TRANSITION OF PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY TO BIOLOGY. THE 2019 MEETING ATTRACTED OVER 900 ATTENDEES FROM 29 COUNTRIES. THE AGU-SEG WORKSHOP IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS (SEG). THE FOCUS OF THE 2019 WORKSHOP WAS TO SHARE ADVANCEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS OF AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICS FOR GROUND WATER, MINERAL, PETROLEUM, GEOTECHNICAL AND HAZARDS INVESTIGATIONS. THE WORKSHOP WAS HELD AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY IN DAVIE, FLORIDA AND ATTRACTED 52 ATTENDEES.

Expenses

$12,067,917

Revenue

$16,285,147