Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA)
Competition Overview
The primary goal of OSPA is to provide student presenters at AGU meetings valuable feedback about their research and presentation skills to help them advance their careers. AGU sections recruit volunteer reviewers to offer written feedback to OSPA presenters.
In addition, sections may grant awards to the OSPA winners in their section to recognize and reward students for quality research in Earth and space science and the ability to effectively communicate it. Congratulations to our AGU24 OSPA Recipients!
AGU24 Student Presenters: Feedback is now available to OSPA presenters. Please take the following steps to access your volunteer reviews:
- Sign into the AGU24 OSPA Platform using your AGU login credentials.
- Your reviews will be visible at the bottom of the dashboard. Click on ‘View Evaluation’ to see the feedback in each one. You may have up to three reviews for each presentation. When looking through your presentation reviews, please refer to the rubric.
How it works
If a meeting is hosting an OSPA program, students (undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD) presenting their research (poster and oral) may sign up to participate. Specific deadlines will vary by meeting. The general timeline and steps are:
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1New for AGU24: Students sign up to participate in OSPA when submitting their abstracts for AGU24.
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2OSPA coordinators and liaisons work together to find reviewers for their OSPA students.
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3Before and during the meeting, registered attendees may sign up to review student presentations.
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4At the meeting, OSPA students give presentations.
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During and after the meeting, reviewers submit their feedback via the OSPA portal. Students presenting virtually are eligible to participate in OSPA, and virtual attendees are eligible to participate as reviewers.
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6About six weeks after the meeting, participating students are provided feedback and winners are announced. Recognition certificates and, in some cases, prizes are awarded.
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7Recognition certificates and, in some cases, prizes are awarded.
Information on OSPA participation
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Students – Student presenters may sign up to receive feedback from volunteer evaluators at the AGU meeting.
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Reviewers – AGU meeting participants volunteer to provide feedback and evaluate student presentations.
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Liaisons – Liaisons ensure all OSPA students in their session(s) are evaluated.
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Coordinators – Coordinators are the OSPA managers for their section. They encourage volunteers to review presentations and work with liaisons to confirm all students in their section are evaluated.
Congratulations 2024 OSPA Winners!
Click below to view the 2024 OSPA winners and winners from previous years.
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