American Geophysical Union

GeoTraductores, a collaborative initiative involving Eos.org, GeoLatinas, and Planeteando, aims to overcome the language barrier in climate change and Earth science communication within Spanish-speaking communities. To accomplish this, science articles from Eos.org have been translated into Spanish by approximately 40 volunteers as part of the Eos en Español project. Around 85% of our team comprises  Latin women,  who have translated over 150 articles, contributing to expanding the Spanish-speaking audience of Eos.org and solidifying the initiative’s success. This strategic translation effort not only enhances accessibility but also promotes the representation of Latin American Early Careers Scientists, many of whom reside and work in predominantly English-speaking countries.Since 2020, the GeoTraductores initiative has been co-led by (1) members of the non-profit organization GeoLatinas dedicated to embracing, empowering, and inspiring Latinas in Earth and Planetary Sciences; (2) Planeteando, a Mexican scientific and social outreach project in Earth and Environmental Sciences; and (3) Eos.org, the science news magazine published by AGU. Each party plays a distinct role in the initiative: (1) volunteer recruitment of translators is handled by GeoLatinas and Planeteando, (2) proofreading and editing of the translated articles is mainly led by Planeteando, and (3) the articles and platforms to make the final Spanish translation available are provided by Eos.org. In a broader effort, all involved collaborators utilize their social media platforms to make this bilingual content more accessible to a wider readership.Throughout this initiative, the GeoTraductores volunteers benefit by improving their English and translation skills, gaining visibility on social media, and making an altruistic contribution to the Latin American general public. Collaborators also benefit from engaging and gaining a wider audience to communicate science, as they foster the capacity building of volunteers, promoting a science communication co-production, and boosting each other. Overall, GeoTraductores is forging a pathway to democratize science, particularly in Latin America. Through establishing and strengthening a network of expert bilingual science communicators, this initiative addresses historical language barriers that impede the accessibility and dissemination of scientific information to the general public. By empowering volunteers and embracing diversity, GeoTraductores paves the way for expanding multilingual spaces within Earth and Planetary sciences one translation at a time.

Climate change poses significant threats to ecosystems, human health, and global stability. Despite international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Earth’s climate continues to warm, leading to extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and other detrimental impacts. In response to this crisis, scientists have begun exploring various strategies to mitigate climate change through geoengineering, which involves deliberate interventions in the Earth’s climate system. This article provides an overview of climate geoengineering research, focusing on key techniques, challenges, and ethical considerations, including actions being taken by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a nonprofit professional scientific society, to develop an ethical framework to help guide research in this important area. AGU also is driving global engagement on this topic, including with leaders and members of faith communities.

Climate change requires urgent action. Aggressive actions toward carbon emissions reduction must remain the primary strategy for reversing and addressing climate change. However, increasingly the world is considering technology-based climate intervention approaches—often called climate engineering. There are major practical and ethical questions about the significant risks and potential trade-offs some of these approaches would bring and how they would be measured against the risks of our warming world. Recognizing the need for guiding principles in this fast-moving, dynamic space and building on AGU’s longstanding history of advancing and advocating for strong scientific ethics, AGU is facilitating the development of a draft Ethical Framework for Climate Intervention Research, Experimentation, and Deployment. The ethical framework will be released in 2024 and will serve as a resource to help governments, researchers, NGOs, and the private sector make responsible decisions when engaging in climate intervention research or policy. In 2023, the draft framework completed a rigorous three-month public comment period and consultation process to include more holistic input from other scientists and ethicists, as well as community voices, youth advocates, and many more. This presentation will highlight the ethical principles and how the science community can incorporate and advocate for ethics in climate intervention research.

Key Points Ethical science must include community engagement The Community Science Exchange promotes ethical responsibilities of editors and authors The grand environmental challenges can only be faced and surmounted with ethical, inclusive approaches

Science communication skills are more essential than ever to today’s scientists, helping break down barriers such as the widespread use of technical jargon and limited access to journals in order to promote interdisciplinary collaboration with non-geoscientists and public understanding of geoscience research. However, traditional geoscience curricula place limited emphasis on the development of communication skills, particularly for audiences beyond scientific peers. Meanwhile, traditional science news focuses on topics of obvious interest to the public, such as geohazards or climate change. As a result, scientists are often given little scope to practice communicating with a general audience, and the majority of geoscience research lacks a mechanism for generating public interest.“Bites” sites are blogs dedicated to communicating new developments in science to a broad audience. Each bite is an engaging, short (400-700 word) summary that explains an exciting new scientific paper and discusses its importance in the field. Bites are typically written by graduate students and other early career scientists about recently published articles that have not been picked up by more traditional science news outlets. These sites serve three key purposes: 1) to keep the interested public – especially university students who may consider careers in geoscience – up to date with recent developments in the field, 2) to generate attention for new work that traditional media outlets may miss, and 3) to give early career scientists practice with public-facing writing and editing, which are critical skills both within and beyond academia.Here we discuss lessons learned in 3 years of running the site Geobites, targeted at communicating new geoscience (broadly-defined) research to the public. We discuss the community of peer science communicators formed by Geobites, diagram the structure of an effective article, present site analytics, and solicit feedback from the geoscience communication community.

Open Science is transformative, removing barriers to sharing science and increasing reproducibility and transparency. The benefits of Open Science are maximized when its principles are incorporated throughout the research process, through working collaboratively with community members and sharing data, software, workflows, samples, and other aspects of scientific research as FAIRly and openly as possible. However, the paths toward Open Science are not always apparent. Developing Open Science skills is an ongoing practice, and while these skills enhance outcomes for individual researchers as well as the broader community, there are many concepts, approaches, and tools to learn along the way.How can we break down the barriers confronting researchers in their Open Science journey? How can we develop and support necessary infrastructure to reuse, distribute, and reproduce the outputs of scientific research? How do we create a culture where having better tools, practices, and methods helps us achieve this goal? We will share work by AGU, our collaborators, and the broader community to support researchers in the Open Science journey, build groups to share resources, leading practices, and experiences, and help develop networks of support across the Earth, space, and environmental science community at all levels, to better support the culture of the future.

Key points Inclusive language will make scholarly publishing more accurate and more respectful, and it has the potential to help authors reach a wider audience. JAMA and the JAMA Network journals, the American Chemical Society and the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications have free guides on inclusive language, formatting and images. The guides provide principles and rationale, as well as examples of preferred language, in order to equip people with knowledge to choose the most inclusive words even as terminology preferences change.

Abstract The challenges of Reproducibility and Replicability (R & R) in computer science experiments have become a focus of attention in the last decade, as efforts to adhere to good research practices have increased. However, experiments using Deep Learning (DL) remain difficult to reproduce due to the complexity of the techniques used. Challenges such as estimating poverty indicators (e.g., wealth index levels) from remote sensing imagery, requiring the use of huge volumes of data across different geographic locations, would be impossible without the use of DL technology. To test the reproducibility of DL experiments, we report a review of the reproducibility of three DL experiments which analyze visual indicators from satellite and street imagery. For each experiment, we identify the challenges found in the data sets, methods and workflows used. As a result of this assessment we propose a checklist incorporating relevant FAIR principles to screen an experiment for its reproducibility. Based on the lessons learned from this study, we recommend a set of actions aimed to improve the reproducibility of such experiments and reduce the likelihood of wasted effort. We believe that the target audience is broad, from researchers seeking to reproduce an experiment, authors reporting an experiment, or reviewers seeking to assess the work of others.

NASA's Transform to Open Science (TOPS) held a virtual community panel May 17-19, 2022. Each day the team presented TOPS upcoming plans for the Year of Open Science and highlight emerging trends, success stories, and lessons learned with open science experts. This Panel Summary Report contains a summary of presentations given by TOPS and TOPS partners to the panelists and an overview of panelists’ feedback on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats regarding the presented information. This feedback will be used to improve TOPS plans for the open science curriculum (OpenCore), community engagement, and overall missions and goals.