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Learning Workshops

Overview

Proposed by the AGU community, Learning Workshops (Formerly Scientific Workshops) are designed to give participants opportunities to develop relevant skills and knowledge and how they can apply those skills and knowledge in their own contexts. All workshop proposals need to include a description, intended learning outcomes, and a plan for participant engagement.

The proposal guidelines are provided to help inform your submission.

Learning Workshops:  Long
  • Proposed by anyone in the AGU community, including AGU staff
  • Provide an in-depth opportunity for participants to actively develop and practice applicable knowledge and skills
  • Align with one of the AGU Learning Workshop Tracks (see below)
  • Are full-day (up to 7 hours with breaks) sessions
  • Will Include clearly defined learning outcomes, target audience, and active learning opportunities
  • Facilitated by 1 or more people

Approved workshops will:

  • Require a separate registration for all workshop attendees.
  • Be scheduled onsite in San Francisco on the Sunday prior to the start of meeting, or
  • Be scheduled online in Jan or Feb after AGU23 on designated learning dates
Learning Workshops:  Short
  • Proposed by anyone in the AGU community, including AGU staff
  • Introduce new knowledge or skills with some opportunity to actively explore the workshop topic
  • Align with one of the AGU Learning Session Tracks (see below)
  • Pre-conference sessions are either half-day (up to 3.5 hours with breaks) or 90 minutes long
  • Include clearly defined learning outcomes, target audience, and plan for active participant engagement
  • Facilitated by 1 or more people

Approved workshops will:

  • Be scheduled for onsite in San Francisco on the Sunday prior to the start of meeting, or
  • Be scheduled online in Jan or Feb after AGU23 on designated learning dates
  • Require pre-registration
Learning Focus:

Each workshop proposal should emphasize one of the following topics:

  • Practical Skills for Science (Focuses on teaching practical skills that advance participants’ research and career capacities. Can be for either discipline specific audiences or broader audiences)
  • Open Science (Focuses on teaching specific skills, strategies, or learning content that advances the practice of Open Science)
  • Community Science (Focuses on teaching specific skills, strategies, or learning content that advances the practice of community centered science)
  • Science Advocacy (Focuses on teaching skills and strategies related to communicating about, advocating for, and/or advancing public knowledge about science and the impact of science)
  • Inclusive Science (Focuses on advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging in the geo-sciences by teaching specific skills, strategies, or learning content that participants can implement)

Guidelines and Policies (Updated for 2023)

The program committee will generally not consider:

  • Proposals that are primarily advertisements of commercial products and services, or that contain the name of a specific experiment in the title or description. (For opportunities to exhibit or sponsor activities at AGU23, please see the Exhibit page.)
  • Submitters must be current 2023 AGU members. Submitters who are members of an affiliated society/organization and primary submitters who are non-geoscientists may request a membership waiver. The deadline to request a waiver was 19 July. Please contact the AGU Scientific Program Team with any questions. 
  • Submitters may submit multiple proposals, but we ask that you ensure the topics are different and across sections.
  • AGU expects that at least one session chair will be onsite in San Francisco to chair in-person sessions.
  • There is no proposal fee for submitting a workshop.
  • Please note that all Learning Workshops are ticketed events. All workshop attendees must first register and pay to attend AGU23 and then register and pay for each individual workshop they would like to attend. Workshop attendee registration rates will be posted in the coming months.
  • The program committee may ask that similar session proposals merge to avoid duplication in the meeting’s scientific program. They may also ask submitters to revise a   proposal description. Following the proposal deadline, the program committee will reach out to submitters to make these requests if needed.

Next steps

If you submitted a Learning Workshop proposal, you will be notified of acceptance or rejection in mid-June. After session submissions and after abstract submissions, the program committee reserves the right to:

  • Reject or merge multiple proposals submitted by the same convener(s) on related topics or across sections,
  • Move proposals to another AGU program,
  • Merge proposals on similar topics,
  • Request that conveners revise the session title and/or description.
  • The program committee will notify conveners if sessions need to be merged or have their descriptions revised.