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Named Lectures
#AGU21 features 32 awards given by AGU sections to recognize distinguished scientists with proven leadership in their fields of science. Many consider these lectures to be a highlight of the Fall Meeting, a showcase of the breadth and depth of discovery and solution science that AGU members are spearheading.
Lecturers
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Gerald E. Galloway
Revisiting Gilbert White’s 1971 Strategies of American Water Management: A 21st Century Natural Hazards Perspective
13 December 2021 8:30am CT
13 December 2021 8:30am CT
Gilbert F. White Distinguished Lecture
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Paul Schenk
Perseverance, Curiosity and Opportunity in the Outer Solar System
13 December 2021 9:45am CT
13 December 2021 9:45am CT
Fred Whipple Lecture
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James A Klimchuk
Coronal Heating: A Coupled Multi-Scale Problem
13 December 2021 12:45pm CT
13 December 2021 12:45pm CT
Eugene Parker Lecture
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Sarah Johnson
Contending with the Truly Alien
13 December 2021 12:45pm CT
13 December 2021 12:45pm CT
Carl Sagan Lecture
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Mei-Ching Hannah Fok
The Interconnected Inner Magnetosphere: A Modeler’s Perspective
13 December 2021 1:45pm CT
13 December 2021 1:45pm CT
Van Allen Lecture
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Athena Coustenis
Search for habitable conditions in the outer solar system
13 December 2021 2:30pm CT
13 December 2021 2:30pm CT
Eugene Shoemaker Lecture
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Jonathan J Makela
Expanding our understanding of thermosphere dynamics through distributed sensing networks
13 December 2021 2:45pm CT
13 December 2021 2:45pm CT
William B. Hanson Lecture
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Joyce Penner
What can we Learn about Cirrus Clouds and Ice Nucleation from the Decrease in Anthropogenic Emissions During the Pandemic?
14 December 2021 8:30am CT
14 December 2021 8:30am CT
Jacob Bjerknes Lecture
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Wayne H. Schubert
Historical Perspectives on Charney's Ideas about Tropical Cyclogenesis and the Formation of the ITCZ
14 December 2021 10:00am CT
14 December 2021 10:00am CT
Jule Gregory Charney Lecture
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Barbara Maher
Environmental (Geo)magnetism: Innovative Problem-Solving, from Paleoclimates to Pollution, Via Ubiquitous Magnetic Particulates, Natural and Anthropogenic
14 December 2021 12:45pm CT
14 December 2021 12:45pm CT
Bullard Lecture of the GPE Section
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Glenn A. Milne
Combining geodetic and geologic observations to identify and solve geophysical problems
14 December 2021 12:45pm CT
14 December 2021 12:45pm CT
William Bowie Lecture
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Andrew Fowler
John Nye’s Influence on Theoretical Glaciology: a Personal Perspective
14 December 2021 2:30pm CT
14 December 2021 2:30pm CT
John F. Nye Lecture
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Gregory C Beroza
How AI is Changing Studies of Seismicity
14 December 2021 2:30pm CT
14 December 2021 2:30pm CT
Beno Gutenberg Lecture
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John W Pomeroy
Cold Regions Process Hydrology: Principles, Processes, Management and Prospects
14 December 2021 2:30pm CT
14 December 2021 2:30pm CT
Walter B. Langbein Lecture
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Andrea G Grottoli
The Future of Coral Reefs
15 December 2021 8:30am CT
15 December 2021 8:30am CT
Rachel Carson Lecture
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Valerio Lucarini
Fingerprinting Heatwaves and Cold Spells Using Large Deviation Theory
15 December 2021 8:30am CT
15 December 2021 8:30am CT
Edward N. Lorenz Lecture
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Charles S Zender
What Geoscientists Want: Short and Sweet Commands with Eco-friendly Data
15 December 2021 10:00am CT
15 December 2021 10:00am CT
Greg Leptoukh Lecture
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Bärbel Hönisch
Community Efforts to Document and Refine Paleoreconstructions
15 December 2021 10:00am CT
15 December 2021 10:00am CT
Emiliani Lecture
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Donald R MacGorman
Lightning and Electrification of Severe Storms: Advances in Understanding and in the Requisite Observational Technologies
15 December 2021 12:45pm CT
15 December 2021 12:45pm CT
Benjamin Franklin Lecture
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Emily H. G. Cooperdock
Weaving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into Geoscience Education
15 December 2021 12:45pm CT
15 December 2021 12:45pm CT
Dorothy LaLonde Stout Education Lecture
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Taras Gerya
New geodynamic processes and phenomena discovered with numerical modeling: examples and recipes
15 December 2021 2:30pm CT
15 December 2021 2:30pm CT
Francis Birch Lecture
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Bradley R Hacker
Relamination and Crustal Refining
15 December 2021 2:30pm CT
15 December 2021 2:30pm CT
Norman L. Bowen Award Lecture
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Catherine Chauvel
What mantle plumes tell us about the Earth
15 December 2021 2:30pm CT
15 December 2021 2:30pm CT
Norman L. Bowen Award Lecture
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George Bergantz
On Unifying Three Pillars of Petrology
15 December 2021 2:30pm CT
15 December 2021 2:30pm CT
Norman L. Bowen Award Lecture
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Junguo Liu
Three-dimensional Water Scarcity Assessment
16 December 2021 8:00am CT
16 December 2021 8:00am CT
Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture
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Alan Robock
Steve Schneider and Nuclear Winter
16 December 2021 8:30am CT
16 December 2021 8:30am CT
Stephen Schneider Lecture
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Michael D Dettinger
Climate Change and Water Resources—A History of Scientific Methods and Findings
16 December 2021 10:00am CT
16 December 2021 10:00am CT
Tyndall Lecture
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Yuan Wang
Peeking into the future of air quality and climate through the COVID-19 pandemic
16 December 2021 10:00am CT
16 December 2021 10:00am CT
Turco Lectureship
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Thomas L Delworth
Climate system changes: natural variability, forced climate change, and pathways towards climate recovery
16 December 2021 12:45pm CT
16 December 2021 12:45pm CT
Bert Bolin Award Lecture
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Edward J Brook
Progress and puzzles in the history of atmospheric methane
16 December 2021 12:45pm CT
16 December 2021 12:45pm CT
William S. and Carelyn Y. Reeburgh Lecture
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Mathieu Gaetan Andre Lapotre
The Power of Comparative Planetology to Decipher the Mechanics of Surface Processes and Their Records
16 December 2021 2:30pm CT
16 December 2021 2:30pm CT
Robert Sharp Lecture
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Anat Shahar
Experimental Geochemical Insights into Earth’s Evolution
16 December 2021 2:30pm CT
16 December 2021 2:30pm CT
Reginald Daly Lecture
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