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Stories & Results
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Promoting environmental education: Engaging the next generation of leaders in Ejido Santa María, México. | Stories & Results | TEXnews
Project Highlight: Santa María, Coahuila
Written by Guadalupe Abigail Salazar Celaya Ciencia que se construye desde el territorio: una experiencia de diagnóstico comunitario con infancias de la Escuela Primaria “Presidente Benito Juárez” en la comunidad de Santa María, Municipio de…
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Community-Based Analysis and Monitoring of Water Quality in the Rímac and Chillón Rivers, Lima, Peru | Stories & Results | TEXnews
Community Leader Highlight: Renzo Gabriel Valle Estremadoyro and Elizabeth Corzo Jara
This article is written in both English and Spanish. Tell us about your Thriving Earth Exchange project. Cuéntanos sobre su proyecto de Thriving Earth Exchange. The project titled “Community-Based Analysis and Monitoring of Water Quality in the Rímac and Chillón Rivers, Lima, Peru” seeks…
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Community-Based Analysis and Monitoring of Water Quality in the Rímac and Chillón Rivers, Lima, Peru | Stories & Results | TEXnews
Community Science Fellow Highlight: Bernabe Gomez
This article is in both English and Spanish. Bernabe Gomez’s main interests are ocean physics and their relations with coastal areas, especially tsunami waves and flooding, which can have a direct effect on human settlements…
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Empowering Fishermen: Bridging Grassroots Knowledge and Scientific Data Collection for Sustainable Fisheries | Stories & Results | TEXnews | Understanding the Impact of the Urban Heat Island Effect in the Hollygrove Dixon Neighborhood
Communities Get Creative to Drive Engagement in the Deep South
Communities in the Deep South have a long history with environmental and economic challenges, and Thriving Earth Exchange has a robust record of community science collaborations aiming to alleviate some of these issues in the…
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2025 Thriving Earth Exchange Year in Review
In 2025, Thriving Earth Exchange continued to demonstrate the power of community-driven science to create tangible, lasting change. Across neighborhoods, watersheds, and regions, our projects gained momentum and visibility—advancing local solutions rooted in trust, collaboration,…
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Mapping Islamic Plants to Educate and Connect with the Community’s Culture and Relationship with Earth | Projects | Stories & Results
Project Highlight: The Wisconsin Green Muslims community in Madison and Milwaukee
This month’s Project Highlight celebrates an inspiring collaboration between community, culture, and science through the Wisconsin Green Muslims’ initiative in Madison and Milwaukee. This Thriving Earth Exchange project brings together faith and environmental stewardship by empowering community…
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Celebrating the Stories Behind Community Science
Thanks to a generous grant for the Moore Foundation, AGU Thriving Earth Exchange commissioned four videos about recent community science projects. Each video shares the people, stories, and the science that make community science so…
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Showcasing Community Science at the Annual Meeting of the Mexican Geophysical Union
Sharing successes and strategies, Thriving Earth Exchange staff and project teams strengthen regional science engagement across Latin America It is remarkable how much cross-cultural collaboration and international exchange can be accomplished remotely. Nevertheless, nothing quite…
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Community Science Fellow Highlight: María de Lourdes Becerra Zavala
This article is in both English and Spanish. María de Lourdes Becerra Zavala is an anthropologist based in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, and a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad Veracruzana. Her work focuses on…
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Stories & Results | Strengthening Community Air Quality Monitoring in Quintero, Chile / | TEXnews | Uncategorized
Community Leader Highlight: Nicole Nuñez
This article is written in both English and Spanish. Nicole Núñez Vergara is an agronomist with a diploma in Municipal Environmental Management. She co-founded Vivero Los Chungungos, focused on conserving native and endemic flora of central…
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Community Science Hubs | From the Farm to the Table: Indigenizing food sovereignty through place-based and culturally-responsive programming for elementary and middle school students in the eastern Navajo Nation | Projects | Stories & Results | TEXnews
Community science helps schools cultivate food, culture and connection
Many families living in New Mexico’s Central Consolidated School District don’t have access to amenities like grocery stores, and some even lack basic infrastructure such as running water or electricity. The school district, based in…
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Meet the October 2025 Cohort of Community Leaders!
Thriving Earth Exchange is excited to announce the October 2025 launch of community leaders! They will work with Community Science Fellows to launch 12 Community Science projects in the United States, Mexico, Chile and Peru….
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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Educational Medicine Wheel Garden Project, Concho, OK | Community Science Hubs | Projects | Stories & Results | TEXnews
Moving Forward by Connecting with the Past
With a heritage garden, an indigenous community seeks renewal for its land and people As you stride across the prairie, bursting with late-summer wildflowers and scented with wild sage, the overwhelming impression is of vastness….
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/ Divulgación y Participación Comunitaria en Cenotes Turísticos | Open Projects | Projects | Stories & Results | TEXnews | Uncategorized
Community Science Fellow Highlight: Camila García-Echeverri
This article is in both English and Spanish. Camila García-Echeverri is a Colombian civil engineer with a Master’s in Hydraulic Resources from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Currently, she also holds a diploma in Project…
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A Growing Community of Voices: Spanish-Language Inclusion at Thriving Earth Exchange
Bridging Language Gaps in Community Science Language isn’t just a tool for communication—it’s a foundation for connection, collaboration, and trust. Two years ago, Thriving Earth Exchange embarked on a journey to make community science more…
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Assessing Air Quality Impacts on an Underserved Neighborhood in St. Louis | Open Projects | Stories & Results | TEXnews
Project Highlight: Harnessing Community Science for Cleaner Air and Healthier Futures in Lewis Place, St. Louis
Project Team: Dr. Pamela Talley, Mr. Richard Ellis, Ojasi Kirtikar, Ogonna Precious Eli, PhD Student, & Mr. Mercy Onaopemipo Akintola In the heart of St. Louis, Missouri, the historic Lewis Place neighborhood is standing up…
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Introducing Geotourism in the Yanacancha-Huaquis Cultural Landscape | Open Projects | Stories & Results | TEXnews
Community Leader Highlight: Mirella Gallardo and Rafael Schmitt
The article below is in both English and Spanish Community Leader Highlight: Mirella Gallardo and Rafael Schmitt Established in 1995 to help Andean mountain communities like Miraflores improve their livelihoods, Instituto de Montaña develops community-driven…
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Identification of Pollutants in the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed: A Recommendation for Protection | Stories & Results
“A Long Way With Many Bends”: Water quality in Conodoguinet Creek, Pennsylvania
Asking tough questions about water quality, a Pennsylvania team discovers the power of a pivot Encompassing more than 500 square miles of central Pennsylvania, the Conodoguinet Creek watershed provides drinking water and recreational opportunities to…
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Stronger Together: EPIC-N and Thriving Earth Exchange Collaborate to Expand Community-driven Science
The Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities – Network (EPIC-N) and AGU’s Thriving Earth Exchange have been working together since 2018 and formalized the partnership with a Memorandum of Understanding in 2021. Today, the organizations…
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Where Science Meets Spirit: Reflections from the FL-iCAN! Assembly
By Aryaana Khan In September 2024, Thriving Earth Exchange launched a project in St. Petersburg, Florida focused on hosting an assembly of interfaith climate actors. This sixth assembly of faith-inspired climate actions focused on strengthening…
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Planning the Development of a Community Land Trust on Dynamite Hill | Rooted (Restoring Our Own Truth (Through) Education & Demonstration) | Stories & Results | TEXnews | Understanding the Impact of the Urban Heat Island Effect in the Hollygrove Dixon Neighborhood
Capacity Collaborative Celebrates Successes
The Capacity Collaborative (TCC), a non-profit built around bolstering resilience in rural communities, is one of four AGU Thriving Earth Exchange Community Science Hubs. Now in its second year of community science projects, TCC’s Southeast…
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Miraflores: Community of Yauyos Province of Peru
The article below is in both English and Spanish Welcome to Miraflores Miraflores is a very small town in the mountainous Yauyos Province of Peru. Its residents are highly dependent on farming and livestock, but…
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Fidecoagua: Community of Coatepec, México
. The article below is in both English and Spanish A magical place Coatepec is a small region in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is known as the “coffee capital of Mexico,” because its…
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Spanish-Language Inclusion at Thriving Earth Exchange
In May of 2023, Thriving Earth Exchange started a new initiative focused on Spanish-language inclusion. As part of this effort, Marina Cox was hired to support Spanish-speaking communities, translate materials, and provide general guidance and…
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AGU Speaks to Environmental Journalists at Metcalf Institute Workshop
By Kimberly Cartier From June 3 to 7, ten environmental journalists were invited as fellows to the University of Rhode Island’s Metcalf Institute for an immersive workshop to learn about hydrology, climate science, and water-related…
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2023 Year in Review
2023 Thriving Earth Exchange Year in Review 2023 marked 10 years since Thriving Earth Exchange began with the bold premise that science should put communities first. Over the years, the program’s small but determined staff…
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Community Science Project at Anemage River – An update
In 2021, Thriving Earth Exchange’s Natasha Udu-gama took the Hano Wene Indonesian Foundation through our approach to community science. Hano Wene works in Indonesia to address education through a holistic approach that includes not only formal education…
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2022 Thriving Earth Exchange Year in Review
2022 was a year in which community science stepped beyond its origins as a somewhat radical “new approach” and emerged as an ever more central and respected part of the mainstream discourse about how to…
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Mapping the Extent of the Tar Creek Superfund Site and Other Potential Risks | Stories & Results | TEXnews | Uncategorized
Community Insights: Mapping the pollution to create the solution
The Tar Creek in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, runs directly through a 40-square-mile Superfund site, full of giant mounds of toxic mining waste—a fine, white sand-and-gravel mix known as “chat,” easily blown away by the breeze—that…
