Schedule
The full day of sessions for the 2026 AGU | AGI Heads & Chairs Workshop, held Sunday, December 6, 2026, immediately prior to AGU26 in San Francisco.
Workshop Schedule
Sunday, December 6, 2026 | Moscone Center (room to be announced), San Francisco, California
Tentative schedule. The final program will be posted one week prior to the workshop.
| 8:30 am | Welcome and icebreaker |
| 9:00 am | Status of geoscience departments Chris Keane, American Geosciences Institute |
| 9:30 am | Geoscience workforce knowledge, skills, and dispositions Anne Egger and Karen Viskupic |
| 10:15 am | Break |
| 10:30 am | Resources for building geoscience workforce skills and awareness in your programs |
| 11:45 am | Break for lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Recruiting strategies that work Rachel Teasdale |
| 2:30 pm | Break |
| 2:45 pm | Adapting recruiting strategies for your program Rachel Teasdale |
| 4:00 pm | Facilitating change in your department/program Anne Egger |
| 4:25 pm | End-of-workshop evaluation |
| 4:30 pm | Adjourn |