American Geophysical Union
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is an international non-profit, scientific organization representing nearly 60,000 members in 137 countries. AGU members at Universities, non-profits, research institutions, and government agencies focus on understanding how the Earth, oceans, heliosphere, solar-system and exouniverses work. They are also heavily involved in climate change science and science outreach.
For their centennial celebration in 2019 I created an illustration that featured over 100 scientific ideas and symbols split between the 10 major Earth and space science fields AGU members work in (science policy and education; cryosphere sciences; Earth’s deep interior to surface studies; atmospheric sciences; and space and planetary sciences, climate sciences; ocean sciences; paleoceanography and paleoclimatology; planetary processes; and natural hazards)
Details:
Art Director: Beth Bagley
Editor in Chief: Heather Goss
A downloadable version of the poster is available on the AGU website Check out the annotated version to identify all 100 symbols.
The illustration was split over 10 covers of the AGU’s scientific journal EOS. Each cover celebrates one of the Centennial themes Eos had covered in 2019. Across the top row: science policy and education; cryosphere sciences; Earth’s deep interior to surface studies; atmospheric sciences; and space and planetary sciences. On the bottom row: climate sciences; ocean sciences; paleoceanography and paleoclimatology; planetary processes; and natural hazards.
Illustrations in use at the AGU centennial conference
Palynology (The study of living and fossilized plant pollen, and spores)
Coral bleaching
Blocked roadway and shifted earth
Juice Spacecraft, Jupiter, Parker Solar Probe, ground observatory, and the asteroid belt.
Carbon capturing forest, heat wave, weather balloon, instrument payload, and the Van Allen radiation belt