Inspire the Future for the Benefit of Humanity

Explore a series of rapid-fire talks addressing major global challenges in Earth and space sciences at the AGU Fall Meeting 2019 Centennial Plenary. Delve into topics such as feeding a growing population, climate change, ecosystem sustainability, energy transition, natural disaster prediction, and mitigation. Learn how these challenges interconnect with Earth and space sciences and require collaboration across scientific disciplines, engineering, public engagement, private sector involvement, and governmental action. Discover emerging opportunities to tackle these grand challenges through 4-minute presentations selected from papers published in AGU journals. Gain insights into National Seismic Hazard Models, Volcano Forecasting, Ice Sheets, Sea Level Rise, GeoHealth, infectious diseases, sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction, space weather, and solar wind. Understand how the American Geophysical Union community can promote Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity in this 1-hour 27-minute keynote session chaired by Lisa Tauxe from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego.