Pre-Conference Workshops

Proposed by the AGU community, including AGU staff, these workshops aim to equip participants with relevant skills and knowledge and teach them ways to apply them in their own contexts. Proposals must include a description, intended learning outcomes, and a plan for active participant engagement and learning.

Pre-conference workshops are separately ticketed events held outside the regular conference schedule. A limited number of workshops will be accepted. All workshops will be in-person only, will not include a virtual component, and will be held onsite on the Sunday prior to the start of the meeting.

Pre-Conference Workshops:

• Provide an in-depth opportunity for participants to actively develop and practice applicable knowledge and skills
• Align with one of the AGU workshop topics (see below)
  • Available as full-day (up to 7 hours with breaks) or half day (up to 3.5 hours) sessions.
• Include clearly defined learning outcomes, target audience, and active learning opportunities.
• Facilitated by 1 or more AGU members or staff.

Deadline: Wednesday, 23 April 2025 (23:59 EDT/03:59 UTC).

Learning Focus:

Workshop proposals should emphasize one of the following topics:

• Practical Skills for Science: Focuses on teaching practical skills (i.e. research, grant writing, finding funding, interdisciplinary research skills, etc.) that advance participants’ research and career capacities. Can be for either discipline specific audiences or broader audiences.
• Technical Skills for Science: Focuses on specific technical skills (software, coding, hardware, or other tools to advance science). Can be for either discipline specific audiences or broader audiences.

Workshops should teach specific skills and competencies and should not be used to sell a particular product. (For opportunities to exhibit or sponsor activities at AGU25, please see the Exhibit page.)  AGU expects that all facilitators will be on-site for these in-person sessions.

• Submitters may only submit one proposal.
• Submitters must be current 2025 AGU Members. Submitters who are members of an  Affiliated Society/Organization and primary submitters who are non-geoscientists may request a membership waiver.
• There is no proposal fee for submitting a workshop.

Notification of acceptance or rejection will occur in mid-July. After proposal review and after abstract submissions, the program committee and review panel reserve the right to:

• Reject or merge multiple proposals submitted by the same convener(s) or organizations on related topics,
• Move proposals to another AGU program,
• Request that conveners revise the session title and/or description.

Please note that all Pre-Conference Workshops are ticketed events. All workshop attendees must first register and pay to attend AGU25 and also register and pay for each individual workshop they wish to attend. Workshop attendee registration rates will be posted in the coming months.