AGU Courses

Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture - Fall Meeting 2012

Explore climate change impacts, mitigation strategies, and policy implications with Professor Sir Bob Watson in this insightful AGU Fall Meeting lecture on geophysics frontiers.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Clues to a Hot, Wet and Violent Ancient Mars - Whipple Lecture

Explore ancient Mars through rover discoveries, revealing a violent past with impacts, volcanism, and hydrothermal activity that created diverse environments potentially suitable for life.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Impacts of Extreme Climate Events and Disturbances on Carbon Dynamics - Part 1

Explore cutting-edge research on extreme climate events' impacts on carbon dynamics, featuring studies on soil respiration, bark beetle outbreaks, droughts, and tropical cyclones.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Gravity, Topography, and Early Evolution of the Moon - Shoemaker Lecture

Exploring lunar evolution through gravity and topography data from LOLA and GRAIL missions, revealing insights into the Moon's crust, impact history, and early planetary development.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Future of Human-Landscape Systems - Part 2

Explore the future of human-landscape interactions, discussing driving forces, global shaping, and sustainability challenges in the Anthropocene era.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Inside a Crustal Earthquake - The Rock Evidence

Explore the geological evidence of crustal earthquakes through rock analysis, providing insights into seismic processes and their impact on Earth's crust.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

New Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Presentations - Session II

Presentations by new Atmospheric Sciences Fellows on climate change, Earth system models, particle precipitation, stratospheric aerosols, and precipitation processes in climate models.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bedrock Hillslopes to Deltas: New Insights into Landscape Mechanics - Sharp Lecture

Exploring landscape mechanics from bedrock hillslopes to deltas, examining sediment transport processes, erosion rates, and morphodynamics through field observations, experiments, and theoretical models.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Race to Understand a Changing Planet - Sagan Lecture 2012

Exploring Earth's rapidly changing climate, the lecture discusses advancements in climate modeling, satellite observations, and field experiments to improve future climate projections for informed decision-making.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Advancing Drought Monitoring and Prediction - Part II

Explore cutting-edge drought monitoring and prediction techniques, including global information systems, seasonal forecasting, and climate change impacts, with applications for decision-making in water resource management.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

New Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Presentations - Fall Meeting 2012

Presentations by new Atmospheric Sciences Fellows covering topics like cumulus convection modeling, organic nitrates, aerosol oxidation, and extreme convective storms using satellite data.

• YouTube
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Advancing Drought Monitoring and Prediction - 2012 AGU Fall Meeting

Explore cutting-edge research on drought monitoring and prediction, including remote sensing, soil moisture analysis, and early warning systems for improved decision-making and humanitarian response.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Geodynamics of Plate Tectonics II - 2012

Explore cutting-edge geodynamics research on plate tectonics, including continental collisions, mantle plumes, subduction zones, and their effects on Earth's topography and magmatism.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nonlinear and Scaling Processes in the Atmosphere and Ocean at All Scales

Explore cutting-edge research on nonlinear and scaling processes in atmospheric and oceanic systems, covering climate reconstructions, sensitivity, long-range memory, megadroughts, turbulence, and micro-scale phenomena.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fighting Chaos: Applications of Breeding - Lorenz Lecture

Explore chaos theory and breeding techniques to predict regime changes in dynamic systems, with applications in atmospheric and oceanic sciences, Mars exploration, and data assimilation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video