American Geophysical Union

Programs: Marketing communications and engagement - marketing, communications and engagement programs seek to: 1) build and maintain agu's reputation as a leader, collaborator and sought after partner within and outside of the earth and space science community; 2) promote agu and its programs, initiatives and services to current and potential members, as well as to the broader earth and space science community; and 3) educate the public, at all levels and across all sectors, on the importance and impact of the earth and space sciences, particularly as it relates to societal well-being. Major accomplishments in these areas during the 2014 fiscal year include: defining, building and launching eos. Org, a news website dedicated to providing trustworthy news and perspectives about the earth and space sciences and their impact, as well as relaunching the former eos weekly newspaper as a bi-weekly news magazine; reframing and relaunching the sharing science program, which seeks to educate and empower scientists to share their knowledge with the public; increasing mainstream and industry-specific media coverage of agu and its science by more than 10% over fiscal year 2013; increasing social media engagement by at least 25% across all agu (and in the case of some, individual platforms; by more than 100%); and exhibiting agu membership/services/programs at least 10 industry-related events.

meetings - agu has a diverse meeting portfolio that offers meetings of various sizes. Most meeting participants present a talk on their latest scientific findings contributing to advancing earth and space science. Individuals must pay a registration fee to participate though the abstract submissions covering their presentations are published as part of the scientific program for each meeting and available via agu's website. 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 24,000 participants at the december 2014 meeting. The meeting generates hundreds of press and media stories about earth and science sciences in prominent sources through distribution on the television, news print and through other electronic outletsthe third annual science policy conference was held in june 2014 in washington, d. C. This conference brought together over 275 policy makers, and industry leaders and scientists. Chapman conferences are topical conferences that focus on current and emerging science issues. Three conferences were held in 2014 with attendance ranging between 70-115 participants.

publications - agu publishes 19 journals representing peer-reviewed research papers as well as numberous books, and co-publishes two other journals with other societies. These publications cover the earth sciences, planetary sciences, solar-terrestrial and space physics, and the envronmental sciences. Overall, agu journals published nearly 6000 peer-reviewed papers in 2014 representing new research in the earth and space sciences. Coverage of the papers helps make these scientific studies available to the public and many of the papers are used in important assessments. All agu journals and books are distributed electronically via the internet; most still have a minor print component. One or more of the publications reach each of agu's more than 61,000 members. Agu publications reach many scientists and students beyond the agu memberhsip, as well as other members of the public, through more than 1,500 libraries. Three of the journals are fully open-access, and all other agu journal content is now freely available after 24 months. Full-text downloads are now averaging about 800,000 per month worldwide. Publications are available in over 135 countries, and are available for free in developing nations through research4life. Agu publishes more than 55,000 page equivalents annually.