AMS Policy Program

August is a great time to meet with your Members of Congress in your own state. Members tend to have more free time in August, and you're more likely to get a face-to-face meeting. AGU is offering a policy update and advice on arranging District Visits through a webinar this Thursday!

District Visits Webinar Share the value and wonder of science with your legislators–right in your home state. In 2016, Members of Congress will be in their home states from mid-July through the end of August, making…

What a fabulous new resource. Fascinating potential use by historians trying to match climatological conditions with social/political/economic trends and events - think about the current analyses of drought factoring into the Syria situation.

New drought atlas maps 2,000 years of climate in Europe The long history of severe droughts across Europe and the Mediterranean has largely been told through historical documents and ancient journals, each chronicling the impact in a geographically restricted area. Now, for the first time, an atlas based on scientific evidence provides the big picture, u…

"An awful number of the seminars about communicating science are about how to make your work intelligible to an ordinary person, how to simplify terminology to make it understandable to a normal person, or highlighting the wow factor of some science, like landing on a comet or manipulating atoms one at a time. What’s missing there is helping people understand that they too can think like a scientist, that they too can practice these techniques of evidentiary thinking, of evidence-based thinking."

AAAS CEO Rush Holt Discusses the State of U.S. Science and Communicating Science to Policymakers... Publication date: 6 October 2015Number: 127 On September 29, Rush Holt, the Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and former U.S. Representative, spoke during an interview about the state of science in the U.S., how to communicate science to the pu…

One of the reasons the NASA Earth Sciences Division is incredibly important.

How NASA Data Can Save Lives From Space How the space agency's unlikely partnership with USAID is helping combat poverty on the ground.