Coming Full Circle: SRI 2024 and Community Science
Often, careers in community science are not straight lines. Like many in my field, I’ve pivoted, adapted, and taken a circuitous pathway in my career. So last month when I was able to connect my…
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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…
Reflections on WaterSciCon 2024
We know here at Thriving Earth Exchange that water, how much of it is available to whom, where it travels, and what contaminants it carries with it, impacts people everywhere. Roughly one third of…
Empowering Tribal Communities through Community Science
The Kansas State Center for Hazardous Substances Research (CHSR), a multidisciplinary unit within the College of Engineering at Kansas State University, has been named as one of four AGU Thriving Earth Exchange Community Science Hubs….
Meet the May 2024 cohort of Community Science Fellows!
Thriving Earth Exchange is pleased to announce our May 2024 cohort of Community Science Fellows! They’ll be working with communities across the United States, Mexico and South America to launch impactful community science projects. The…
Meet Capacity Collaborative: Helping rural communities become agents of change
The Capacity Collaborative, a non-profit built around bolstering resilience in rural communities in the Southeastern United States, is one of four AGU Thriving Earth Exchange Community Science Hubs. Thanks to support from the Gordon and…
Meet Nurture Nature Center: Empowering Underserved Communities Impacted by Flooding
The Nurture Nature Center, a non-profit that works to build community resiliency in the face of environmental risks, is one of four organizations recently named as an AGU Thriving Earth Exchange Community Science Hub. With…
Meet the February 2024 Cohort of Community Science Leads
Join us in welcoming our February 2024 Cohort of Community Science Leads! From Mexico to New York to North Carolina, Illinois, and California this cohort is going to do amazing things with community science. Ana…
Meet the February 2024 Cohort of Community Science Fellows!
Thriving Earth Exchange is pleased to announce our February 2024 cohort of Community Science Fellows! They’ll be working with communities across the United States and Mexico to launch impactful community science projects. The partnership will…
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…
A Farewell Message from Thriving Earth Founder Raj Pandya
Vice President of Community Science Raj Pandya started Thriving Earth Exchange in 2013. _____ This month, I am leaving AGU and Thriving Earth Exchange. I wanted to use this last blog to say thank you,…
The Science of SciComm: Building Trust in Multilingual Science Communication
By Marina Cox In the past decade, science communication has acknowledged the urgent need for diversity, equity and inclusion in its practices, methodology, audiences, and organizations. Language is a crucial tool to promote access and…
Meet the October 2023 Cohort of Community Science Fellows!
Thriving Earth Exchange is pleased to announce our October 2023 cohort of Community Science Fellows! They’ll be working with communities across the United States to launch impactful community science projects. The partnership will connect communities…
Meet the June 2023 Cohort of Community Leads!
Thriving Earth Exchange is pleased to announce the June 2023 cohort of Community Leads! They will work with Community Science Fellows to launch 16 community science projects in the United States and Mexico. Stay tuned…
Community Science at ECSITE: People, Imagination, and Dialogue
Blog post and photos by Liz Crocker Figure 1 View from the rooftop of the Mediterranean Conference Center. Finding ways to ensure communities have access to the benefits of science and can mobilize science to…
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…
Meet the October 2022 Cohort of Community Leads!
Thriving Earth Exchange is pleased to announce the October 2022 cohort of Community Leads! They will work with Community Science Fellows to launch 10 community science projects across the United States and in Jamaica! Stay…
Equity in Co-Production: The “Fishbowl” Conversation
Author: Natasha Udu-gama On 12 May 2022, Thriving Earth Exchange hosted a public conversation on “What does equitable co-production look like in practice? A discussion.” I served as an advisory board member for the…
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…
New Partners Advancing the Practice of Community Science
by Kelly McCarthy, Project Manager, Thriving Earth Exchange Thriving Earth Exchange welcomes new partners and collaborators around the globe to advance and improve the practice of community science Early this year, Program Director Raj…
Doing Good with Science
The Thriving Earth Exchange is dedicated to “Doing good with science”. We are working to develop new and innovative avenues for communities (a community is any group that might be able to use science to…
Thriving Earth Exchange LIVE! Survey
Did you get a chance to join us for our Thriving Earth Exchange LIVE! event at the American Geophysical Union? We’d love your feedback on the event and your thoughts about the Thriving Earth Exchange….
The Exchange @ Fall Meeting 2013
Raj and Julia, our dedicated Exchange team members, and some of our amazing Advisory Board members will be in San Francisco for the American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall Meeting, 9-13 December 2013. We’ll be mingling, meeting up…
Thriving Earth Exchange In the News
Stay up to date on Thriving Earth Exchange updates! Let us tell you what we’ve been up to recently. Eos article We are officially published in AGU’s weekly newspaper Eos. Read our article “AGU’s Thriving Earth…