
About AGU Fall Meeting 2021
#AGU21 Process from Start to New Orleans (and online everywhere)
But what happens once you submit your proposal and/or abstract?
Here’s a look at the process from start to finish


Future Fall Meetings
Save the date and join us for our future Fall Meetings:
- 12-16 December 2022 | Chicago
- 11-15 December 2023 | San Francisco
- 9-12 December 2024 | Washington, D.C.
Dates & Deadlines
June - July 2021
16 June 2021
23 June 2021
mid-July 2021
August - September 2021
4 August 2021
August 2021
1 September 2021
#AGU21 Registration Opens
Register for early bird discounts for attendees and press
#AGU21 Housing Opens
Reserve your housing
October - November 2021
5 October 2021
Online program is released.
Abstract notifications are sent.
3 November 2021
Early bird registration deadline.
Last day to join or renew your AGU membership for 2021 to take advantage of member registration rates.
19 November 2021
24 November 2021
Housing deadline
Last day to reserve your housing for #AGU21.
December 2021
1 December 2021
7 December 2021
13-17 December 2021
Join us in New Orleans & Online Everywhere!
We'll see you for #AGU21 in New Orleans, Louisiana and online everywhere from 13-17 December 2021.
Mark your calendar now for AGU Fall Meeting 2022, 12-16 December in Chicago, Illinois!
Affiliated societies
Below is the list of current affiliated societies and organizations. Please note that the deadline for members of affiliated societies to request a membership waiver to submit a Fall Meeting abstract has now passed.
- AAS: American Astronomical Society
- AMS: American Meteorological Society
- APHA: American Public Health Association
- ASPRS: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- AOGS: Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
- LATINMAG: Asociación Latinoamericana de Paleomagnetismo y Geomagnetismo
- CGU: Canadian Geophysical Union
- CGS: Chinese Geophysical Society
- ESA: Ecological Society of America
- EGU: European Geosciences Union
- FASEB: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
- GS: Geochemical Society
- GAC: Geological Association of Canada
- GSA: Geological Society of America
- IAS: International Association of Sedimentologists
- ISEE: International Society of Environmental Epidemiology
- ISES: International Society of Exposure Science
- JpGU: Japan Geoscience Union
- MSA: Mineralogical Society of America
- NAGT: National Association of Geoscience Teachers
- NSPS: The National Society of Professional Surveyors
- OSA: The Optical Society
- SEPM: Society for Sedimentary Geology
- SEG: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- SEPM: Society for Sedimentary Geology
- SSSA: Soil Science Society of America
- UGM: Unión Geofísica Mexicana
- WCRP: World Climate Research Programme
If you would like for your society to be considered as an affiliate, please email the Meetings Team.
Fall Meeting Program Committee members (by section)
Fall Meeting Program Committee Chair
Union program
Nicole Oliphant
Director, Scientific Programs, Meetings, AGU
Atmospheric and Space Electricity
Sonja Behnke
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Eric Bruning
Texas Tech University
Atmospheric Sciences
Valentina Aquila
American University
Melinda Berman
University of Illinois
Shannon Capps
Drexel University
Joost de Gouw
University of Colorado Boulder
Ruben Delgado
Hampton University
Nana Liu
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Kathryn Moore
Colorado State University Fort Collins
Kristina Pistone
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field
Hui Su
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Biogeosciences
Kristina Bartowitz
American Forests
Min Chen
University of Wisconsin
Forrest Hoffman
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Laura Meredith
University of Arizona
Yang Song
University of Arizona
Cryosphere Sciences
Emilio Mateo
Aspen Global Change Institute
Mark Raleigh
Oregon State University
Brianna Rick
Colorado State University
Kiya Riverman
University of Portland
Ryan Venturelli
Colorado School of Mines
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Suzanne Anderson
University of Colorado
Claire Masteller
Washington University in St Louis
Marisa Palucis
Dartmouth College
Kyle Straub
Tulane University of Louisiana
Education
Sanlyn Buxner
Planetary Science Institute
Michelle Nichols
Adler Planetarium
Simon Schneider
Technical University of Munich
Geodesy
Niloufar Abolfathian
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Athina Peidou
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
GeoHealth
Amanda Hoffman-Hall
Eckerd College
Jennifer Stowell
Boston University School of Public Health
Global Environmental Change
David Cairns
Texas A&M University College Station
Ben Kravitz
Indiana University Bloomington
Erwan Monier
University of California Davis
Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Electromagnetism
Paul Bedrosian
USGS
Hydrology
Hatim Geli
University of Nebraska Lincoln
University of Arizona
Viviana Maggioni
George Mason University
Binayak Mohanty
Texas A&M University College Station
Firat Testik
University of Texas at San Antonio
Informatics
Rebecca Farrington
AuScope Ltd
Binita KC
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Manil Maskey
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Sudhir Shrestha
NOAA NWS Office of Water Prediction
Mineral and Rock Physics
Yuval Boneh
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Elizabeth Thompson
Sewanee The University of the South
Natural Hazards
Caitlin Ahrens
NASA GSFC
Jordan Bell
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Near-surface Geophysics
Greg Mount
Broward County Florida
Sebastian Uhlemann
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nonlinear Geophysics
Steven Fletcher
Colorado State University
Ocean Sciences
Carol Arnosti
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Chant
Rutgers University
Steven D'Hondt
University of Rhode Island
Angelicque White
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Tiffany Napier
Syracuse University
Ny Riavo Voarintsoa
University of Houston
Yi Wang
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Planetary Sciences
Amanda Hendrix
Planetary Science Institute
Sarah Horst
Johns Hopkins University
Gerald Patterson
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Science and Society
Shenyue Jia
Chapman University
Holly Mayton
University of Pennsylvania
Seismology
Wenyuan Fan
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Heather Ford
University of California Riverside
Space Physics and Aeronomy
Scott England
Virginia Tech
SPA - Aeronomy
Amy Keesee
University of New Hampshire
SPA - Magnetospheric Physics
Hazel Bain
University of Colorado Boulder
SPA - Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Hadi Madanian
Southwest Research Institute
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
Bethany Chidester Hopp
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Neala Creasy
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peng Ni
Carnegie Institution for Science
Tectonophysics
Sylvain Barbot
University of Southern California
Jing Liu-Zeng
Tianjin University
Marcos Moreno
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology
Benjamin Andrews
Smithsonian Institution
Luca Caricchi
University of Geneva
Marie Edmonds
University of Cambridge
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay
University of California Davis