Professional Development

Welcome! We’re glad you’re here! This guide was put together by members of the American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee with help from the wider AGU community in hopes of making the AGU Meeting less overwhelming. The tips below are based on experiences from veteran attendees about what they’ve learned over the years. This guide is meant for everyone, and not one section in particular. Many of the guides and tips are also applicable for virtual attende

By: Caitlin Mayernik, Mazvita M. Chikomo, Kelly Garvey As scientists, we want our work to be impactful and meaningful. Our impact comes in the form of advancing our scientific understanding and contributing in positive ways to society. The latter measure of impact is arguably under-valued in today’s society, but no less important (Nadkarni & Stasch, 2013). Perhaps a large part of closing the gap in value and importance of our scientific impact is to communicate our science in

Fieldwork is often an important component of data collection and student training within the hydrologic sciences. Field sites are...

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Working in teams is fundamentally how science gets done. Even ideas generated by one individual must be reviewed by several peers before...