Dates & Deadlines
Mar |
mid |
Session proposals open
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Apr |
24 |
Session proposals close at 23:59 p.m. ET/03:59 +1 GMT.
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May |
mid |
Program committee conducts session reviews and merges. Conveners should be available to discuss session merges.
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Jun |
mid |
Session proposal acceptance notification letters are sent.
Abstract submission site opens. Invited author tool opens. Town hall and workshop proposal acceptance letters sent. |
Jul |
31 |
Abstract submissions close at 23:59 p.m. ET/03:59 +1 GMT.
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Aug |
mid |
Program committee allocates and schedules sessions and finalizes session formats.
Meeting registration and housing opens for attendees. |
late |
Conveners review and schedule abstracts in allocated sessions.
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Oct |
early |
Authors are notified of the acceptance, format and schedule of their abstracts.
Student volunteer applications open. |
Nov |
early |
Last day to join or renew your 2024 AGU membership to take advantage of discounted registration rates.
Early bird registration ends at 23:59 ET/03:59 +1GMT Student volunteer applications close at 23:59 ET/03:59 +1 GMT. |
mid |
Last day to cancel registration and receive a full refund.
Last day to reserve housing in the AGU hotel block. |
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Dec |
9 |
First day of AGU24.
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Frequently Asked Questions
This is a collection of some of our most frequently asked questions. If you can't find an answer to your question, please contact us.
General
Where is the Annual Meeting being held?
The Annual Meeting is being held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and available in our online platform.
801 Mt. Vernon Place NW
Washington, DC 20001
What are the dates for the Annual Meeting?
The Annual Meeting will be held from 9-13 December.
What is the expected meeting attendance?
Approximately 27,000 attended the hybrid meeting in 2023.
Do I have to be an AGU member to attend?
How do I become an AGU member?
Will AGU accept ancillary meeting room requests?
AGU will begin accepting ancillary meeting room requests in September. A fee will apply to all ancillaries.
When does registration and housing open?
Registration and housing is scheduled to open in Mid-August.
How do I obtain a Letter of Invitation to AGU24?
To request a letter of invitation, complete this form.
Sessions
How do I submit a proposal?
Do I need to be a member of AGU to chair, convene or present at a session?
- The primary convener for each session must be a current 2024 AGU member or a current member of an affiliated society/organization.
- If you are not a current AGU member but are a member of a co-sponsoring organization or if you are a non-geoscientist, you may request a membership waiver to submit your session proposal.
- Co-conveners are not required to be AGU members. However, to fully participate in the planning and scheduling process in August, current 2024 membership is required.
Will I need to register for AGU24 in order to chair, convene or present at a session?
- Session chairs and all presenters, including invited presenters, must pay a registration fee, separate from the abstract submission fee, if they are attending and/or presenting at AGU24 in-person or virtually.
- Conveners listed on a proposal do not need to register for AGU24 if they will not attend the meeting in-person or virtually.
When do session proposals open and close?
When will I know if my session proposal has been accepted?
- Conveners are notified of acceptance in early June.
- Messages regarding the AGU scientific program are sent via [email protected]. Please check your junk or spam filter. Note: this email address is not monitored. If you have questions, please contact the Scientific Program Team.
Can I submit more than one proposal?
- Conveners may submit multiple proposals, but we ask that you ensure the topics differ and span across sections.
- See the session proposal policies section for more details.
Is there a fee to submit a session proposal or town hall?
There is no fee to submit a session proposal. Please note,
- If accepted, town hall organizers will be billed a $500 technology/labor charge.
- All first authors who submit an abstract to a session, including invited authors, are subject to the AGU membership fee and abstract submission fee.
- All presenting authors, including invited authors and session chairs must pay the meeting registration fee.
What session formats will be available at AGU24?
Can I be an invited author at a session I’m convening?
A convener cannot be the first author or presenting author on an invited abstract submitted to a session that they are convening. However:
- Conveners can submit contributed abstracts to be presented as a poster in their own session.
- Conveners may be invited authors in other sessions.
- EXCEPTION: Student and early career conveners are exempt from this rule and may be scheduled as oral presentations in their own sessions.
Can conveners include both online and in-person presentations in one session?
Abstracts
Do I have to be an AGU member to submit an abstract?
First and invited authors must belong to AGU or a current affiliated society or organization.
Do presenters and chairs have to register for the meeting?
- The presenting author must register for and attend AGU24, either online or in-person.
- Session chairs and all presenters, including invited presenters, must pay a registration fee, separate from the abstract submission fee, if they are attending and/or presenting at AGU24 in-person or virtually.
- Conveners listed on a proposal do not need to register for AGU24 if they will not attend the meeting in-person or virtually.
How should I cite an abstract presented at AGU24?
Please cite as:
Author(s) (2024), Title, Abstract (Final paper number, ex: AE14B-1234) presented at AGU24, 9-13 Dec.
When do abstract submissions open and close?
The call for abstracts will be open from mid-June to 31 July (23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT).
When will I know if my abstract has been accepted?
Authors are notified of the acceptance, format and schedule of their abstracts in early October.
Messages regarding the AGU scientific program are sent via [email protected]. Please check your junk or spam filter. Note: this email address is not monitored.
If you have questions please contact the Scientific Program Team.
How do I submit an abstract submission?
The abstract submission guidelines and link to the submission site will be available in mid-June. If you have any questions, please contact AGU’s Scientific Program Team.
Can I submit more than one abstract?
A first author can submit two contributed abstracts (i.e., non-invited abstracts), as long as the second abstract is submitted to a session led by a different section from the first abstract.
Invited authors can submit up to three abstracts, as long as one is to any session led by a different section.
Please note, authors may submit a second abstract to a session within the same section if it is listed as co-organized with a different section. Full abstract guidelines will be available mid-June.
Can I be an invited author at a session I’m convening?
A convener cannot be the first author or presenting author on an invited abstract submitted to a session that they are convening. However:
- Conveners can submit contributed abstracts to be presented as a poster in their own session.
- Conveners may be invited authors in other sessions.
- EXCEPTION: Student and early career conveners are exempt from this rule and may schedule oral presentations in their own sessions.
Is there a fee to submit an abstract?
Yes. The abstract submission fee is a required and non-refundable processing fee, separate from membership dues and meeting registration fees, and is not based on approval of your abstract submission or attendance at the meeting.
The abstract submission fees are:
- Regular submission — $70
- Student submission — $40
Will presenters be able to choose online or in-person presentation?
Yes. Authors will select in-person or online presentation as part of the abstract submission process, and conveners will assign presentations based on this selection.
- Oral sessions will be held in a hybrid format.
- eLightning sessions will be held in-person only.
- For poster presentations, online poster sessions will take place in late January 2024. Changes cannot be made from in-person to online presentations or vice versa. Registered poster presenters who cannot attend their scheduled session can choose to publish an iPoster in the online gallery, and the abstract will remain in the program.
Pre-Conference Workshops
Is there a fee to submit a pre-conference workshop proposal?
- There is no fee to submit a session, town hall, or workshop proposal.
- All workshop attendees will be required to pay a separate registration fee to attend a workshop on-site in Washington, D.C.
Is there a separate registration fee to attend a pre-conference workshop?
- Yes. Each workshop carries an additional registration fee, with discounted rates for students. Approved workshops and registration rates will be available in late summer.
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Policies
This is a collection of AGU policies surrounding AGU’s Annual Meeting. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].
AGU is committed to protecting your privacy, and we honor your right to make choices about the information you share with us. AGU requests information from those who engage with us to complete business processes such as meeting registration, to improve the communication and sharing of science, to improve programs and websites, and to serve the interests of members, authors, meeting attendees, and others by providing them with relevant information.
We are committed to providing an explanation of what information is required and what is optional, as well as how that information is being used.
AGU does not sell meeting attendee or member contact information.
- It has been brought to our attention that some individuals and organizations have been contacted with offers of lists for purchase. These offers are not affiliated with AGU in any way and are unauthorized. We thank our exhibitors for reporting this issue to us. If you receive or know of an email containing such an offer, we ask that you please alert us by email.
- Read AGU's Full Privacy Policy
- Learn More about the Information we collect
AGU is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all meeting participants and AGU staff. All participants are expected to abide by the AGU Meetings Code of Conduct.
Read the AGU Code of Conduct
AGU Scientific Integrity & Professional Ethics Policy
AGU members and authors of AGU publications must adhere to the AGU Scientific Integrity and Professional Ethics Policy.
Read the AGU Ethics Policy
- It is not possible to request an oral session. The program committee will assign final session formats and not all sessions will receive an oral component, but conveners may propose a poster-only session.
- The program committee generally will not consider:
- Proposals that are celebratory or honorary in nature. Sessions cannot be in tribute to a specific person or contain the name of a scientist in the session title. Names can be used in the description when used in context with scientific results and focused on the person’s contribution to the field overall.
- Proposals that are primarily advertisements of commercial products and services, or that contain the name of a specific experiment in the title or description. Opportunities to exhibit or sponsor activities at AGU24 will be available soon.
- Primary conveners must be current 2024 AGU members.
- Primary conveners who are members of an affiliated society/organization and primary conveners who are non-geoscientists may request a membership waiver.
- All first authors, including invited authors, who submit an abstract to a session are subject to the AGU membership fee and abstract submission fee. The presenter must also pay the meeting registration fee.
- Conveners may submit multiple proposals, but we ask that you ensure the topics differ and span across sections.
- The program committee may ask that similar session proposals merge to avoid duplication in the meeting’s scientific program. They may also ask conveners to revise a session proposal description. Following the proposal deadline, the program committee will reach out to conveners to make these requests if needed.
- AGU expects that at least one session chair will be onsite in Washington, DC to chair in-person sessions. Session chairs do not need to be listed as conveners.
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History & Facts
The first Fall Meeting was in April 1920 in San Francisco, California. It was also known as the Spring Meeting when AGU had two meetings each year. San Francisco served as the “home” of Fall Meeting until 2017 when AGU adopted the rotation strategy.
2023
The AGU23 Annual Meeting was held in San Francisco, CA and online, with 27,339 registered attendees. In 2023 AGU also launched "continue the journey" programming which consisted of workshops and poster discussions held in January 2024.
Learn More About the 2023 Fall Meeting2022
AGU Fall Meeting was our first hybrid meeting held in Chicago, IL and online everywhere with 23,636 registered attendees.
Learn More About the 2022 Fall Meeting2021
AGU Fall Meeting was our first hybrid meeting held in New Orleans, LA and online everywhere with 23,145 registered attendees.
Learn More About the 2021 Fall Meeting2020
AGU Fall Meeting was a 100% virtual meeting with 25,400+ registered attendees
Learn More About the 2020 Fall Meeting2019
AGU Fall Meeting was held in San Francisco, CA with 27,934 registered attendees. It was also AGU’s Centennial anniversary and an opportunity to celebrate the 100 years of service to the scientific community.
Learn More About the 2019 Fall Meeting2018
AGU Fall Meeting was held in Washington, D.C. with 28,289 registered attendees. This meeting also celebrated the grand opening of AGU’s net zero energy renovation headquarters.
2017
AGU Fall Meeting was held in New Orleans LA with 22,632 registered attendees.
- 27,339 Attendees
- 107 Countries Represented
- 279 exhibiting companies
- 8,364 First-time attendees
- 7,311 Graduate Students
- 460 K-12 Students
- 291 Press Registered
- 1,205 Undergraduate Students
- 2,535 Virtual Registrants
- 118 DEI Sessions & Events
- 103 eLightning Sessions
- 21 Innovation Sessions
- 1024 In-Person Poster Sessions
- 6 Keynotes & Plenaries
- 146 Online Poster Sessions
- 1,007 Oral Sessions
- 114 Town Halls
- 18 Workshops
- 794 eLightning Presentations
- 12,709 In-person Poster Presentations
- 712 Online Poster Presentations
- 7,335 Oral Presentations
- 13,421 Total Poster Presentations
- 9651 Student Abstracts Submitted
- 25,205 Total Abstracts Submitted
- 23,636 Attendees
- 109 Countries Represented
- 234 exhibiting companies
- 7,096 First-time attendees
- 6,917 Graduate Students
- 305 K-12 Students
- 266 Press Registered
- 1,087 Undergraduate Students
- 5,411 Virtual Registrants
- 55 DEI Sessions & Events
- N/A eLightning Sessions
- 20 Innovation sessions
- 7 Keynotes & Plenaries
- 666 Online Poster Sessions
- 996 Oral Sessions
- 798 Poster Sessions
- 86 Town Halls
- 21 Workshops
- N/A eLightning Presentations
- 9,253 In-person Poster Presentations
- 2,238 Online Poster Presentations
- 7,238 Oral Presentations
- 11,491 Total Poster Presentations
- 7,920 Student Abstracts Submitted
- 21,010 Total Abstracts Submitted
- 23,145 Attendees
- 106 Countries Represented
- 167 Exhibiting companies
- 7,058 First-time attendees
- 7,127 Graduate Students
- 303 K-12 Students
- 324 Press Registered
- 1,276 Undergraduate Students
- 14,240 Virtual Registrants
- 66 DEI sessions & events
- 155 eLightning Sessions
- 21 Innovation Sessions
- 7 Keynotes & Plenaries
- 1,075 Oral Sessions
- 882 Poster Sessions
- 116 Town Halls
- 15 Workshops
- 1,048 eLightning Presentations
- 7,599 Oral Presentations
- 10,410 Total In-person and Online Poster Presentations
- 9,010 Student Abstracts Submitted
- 21,903 Total Abstracts Submitted
Affiliated Societies
Below is the list of current affiliated societies and organizations. AGU members and those who are members of affiliated societies will receive reduced registration rates. The AGU membership requirement for submission for primary session conveners and abstract first authors will be waived for members of a co-sponsoring society. The deadline for primary conveners to request a waiver will be Wednesday, 10 April. The deadline to request a waiver for abstract first authors, including invited authors, will be Wednesday, 17 July. Please contact the AGU Scientific Program Team with any questions.
- ACSESS: Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies
- AAS: American Astronomical Society
- AMS: American Meteorological Society
- APHA: American Public Health Association
- ASPRS: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- ASA: American Society of Agronomy
- AOGS: Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
- LATINMAG: Asociación Latinoamericana de Paleomagnetismo y Geomagnetismo
- CGU: Canadian Geophysical Union
- CGS: Chinese Geophysical Society
- CSSA: Crop Science Society of America
- 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
- Optica (formerly OSA)
- SETAC: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- 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.
Program Committee Leadership
Vacant
Chair, Fall Meeting Program Committee
Nicole Oliphant
American Geophysical Union
Director, Scientific Programs, Meetings
Program Committee Members
Atmospheric and Space Electricity
Sonja Behnke
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Eric Bruning
Texas Tech University
Atmospheric Sciences
American University
Melinda Berman
University of Illinois
Shannon Capps
Drexel University
Joost de Gouw
University of Colorado Boulder
Ruben Delgado
Hampton University
Kathryn Moore
Colorado State University Fort Collins
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
Yang Song
University of Arizona
Cryosphere Sciences
David Clemens-Sewall
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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 Boulder
Eric Barefoot
University of California, Riverside
Sarah Baumgardner
Chevron ETC
Joanmarie Del Vecchio
College of William and Mary
Kimberly Huppert
CUNY City College of New York
Ajay Limaye
University of Virginia
Claire Masteller
Washington University in St Louis
Colin Phillips
Utah State University
Kyle Straub
Tulane University of Louisiana
Education
Global Environmental Change
David Cairns
Texas A&M University College Station
Ben Kravitz
Indiana University Bloomington
Erwan Monier
University of California Davis
Geodesy
Eric Lindsey
University of New Mexico Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Athina Peidou
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
GeoHealth
Amanda Hoffman-Hall
Eckerd College
Jennifer Stowell
Boston University School of Public Health
Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism
Paul Bedrosian
USGS
Hydrology
George Mason University Fairfax
Vimal Mishra
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Shirley Papuga
Wayne State University
Firat Testik
University of Texas at San Antonio
Informatics
AuScope Ltd
Manil Maskey
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Ranjay Shrestha
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Debjani Singh
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mineral and Rock Physics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Natural Hazards
Near-surface Geophysics
Sebastian Uhlemann
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Nonlinear Geophysics
Ocean Sciences
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
Washington University in St Louis
Christopher Kinsley
Berkeley Geochronology Center
Yi Wang
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Planetary Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
Catherine Neish
University of Western Ontario
Gerald Patterson
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Science and Society
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
Seismology
University of California Riverside
William Frank
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shihao Yuan
Victoria University of Wellington
Space Physics and Aeronomy
University of Colorado Boulder
SPA
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
Tectonophysics
University of Southern California
Josie Nevitt
USGS Earthquake Science Center
Hiroke Sone
University of Wisconsin Madison
Union
VACANT
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology
Smithsonian Institution
Luca Caricchi
University of Geneva
Marie Edmonds
University of Cambridge
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay
University of California Davis