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AGI Releases the New 2012 Critical Needs Document

Alexandria, VA – With less than two months before Election Day, AGI and its federation of 50 professional geoscience societies have come together again to provide a list of critical issues and policy recommendations for the next presidential administration. The document, Critical Needs for the Twenty-first
Century: the Role of the Geosciences, is meant to inform policymakers of the unique knowledge, experience, and ingenuity of the geoscience community, and to address some of society's most pressing issues.

More commonly known as the Critical Needs Document, the new report builds on the first set of recommendations handed down in 2008 with the addition of an eighth Critical Need: To sustain ocean, atmosphere, and space resources. The other Critical Needs include ensuring reliable energy, providing sufficient water supplies, managing waste, mitigating natural hazards, improving and building new infrastructure, ensuring supplies of raw materials, and maintaining a robust geoscience workforce.

To view the document in its entirety, please visit the AGI Geoscience Policy webpage http://www.agiweb.org/gap/CriticalNeeds2012.pdf.

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AGI GeoSpectrum

GeoSpectrum is an online newsletter maintained by the American Geological Institute (AGI). Updated continually, GeoSpectrum posts the haspsoftware news of the geosciences community. Topics include meeting announcements, awards, changes in leadership, scholarships, and more.

To contribute an item to be posted on GeoSpectrum, please contact the editor at geospectrum@agiweb.org.

AGI Releases - Geoscience Currents

Geoscience Currents are quick snapshots of data pertaining to all aspects of the geosciences, including trends in geoscience academic programs and students, funding of geoscience research, employment and salary information, and many other topics that support geoscience professionals and students in their career and academic endeavors. Geoscience Currents represent data collaborations with other societies, employers, and professionals. Topics for these short reports are often inspired by inquries from the geoscience community.

If you have research related to any of the topics listed above that you would like to share with the geoscience community, please contact us about guest authoring a Geoscience Currents.

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