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Jacquelyn Tran discuss how race influences her life and how she uses it to discuss it with her family and how she’ll use it to help others on the future.

James Butler has studied atmospheric chemistry, ozone depletion for over thirty years. Now, as the Director of NOAA’s global monitoring, he helps direct research into the hole in the ozone layer and climate change. He knows firsthand that we have...

Recent historical events and jobs/experiences my father has encountered through his lifetime so far

Glenn Orton is so deep in Jupiter mission information that he gets envious when he’s not involved in a space project studying the gas giant. The senior research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory studies the composition and structure...

Richard Johnson is an AGU member who has been coming to Fall Meeting for years. He discusses some of the keynotes he’s attended in recent years, like those by Jerry Brown, Elon Musk, and Dan Rather. A sci-fi enthusiast, Richard...

Caelan (15) interviews their grandfather, John Anastas (75), about his life.

Back in the day, it often took years for things that happened on the coasts to really impact the Heartland. The coincidences of Norm’s life in 1969, while traveling in Europe (on a trip earned as a reward for serving...

Woody Turner, the program scientist for biological diversity and manager for ecological forecasting programs at NASA, and one of the few people in the world who directly harness the power of space to solve a whale of a problem –...

Ancestors, growing up in China in the 20s and 30s, medical service in WWII, spiritual influence on core values, Unitarianism

Carina (13) interviews her mother mainly about what she is feeling during the Covid-19 pandemic. Both talk about what life has been like during this time and moment in this country as well as her mother's childhood memories.

How did Biogeoscience become a recognized field of study, with its own journal and sections at AGU? What obstacles did its organizers have to overcome in order to make it a viable field and a welcome presence at AGU? In...

Interview with Tate Cinti and Georgia Cinti - Jan 2020

Spoke with my mother about her job as the deputy director of the children’s museum of manhattan, and how she got to go to the White House and speak about her work initiative with sam kass, who at the time...

Jamie and Brian talk about their love story.

While Patrick Taylor spends a huge chunk of his time in the clouds, his work has nothing to do with daydreaming. The Research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center is working on understanding more about the role of clouds in...

Luis va más en profundidad de su banda de heavy metal y cómo se formaron.

Margret Greene was a very interesting child with a very unique life style. This interview dives deeper into how her life was.

Conor McGlade (27) speaks with his fiance Sarah Clark (28) about how they met during a study abroad program in New Zealand, started dating and eventually became engaged in Ireland.

Ross Stein is CEO and Co-Founder of Temblor, Inc., Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, a scientist at the Unites States Geological Survey, creator of films about earthquake science, and president of the AGU’s tectonic physics section. In this interview, Margarete...

I interviewed my mom, who like my dad, was an immigrant to America from Nigeria. She talks about the experience of being an immigrant and also living in America for a long time. Despite the label of "immigrant", you'd also...

talking about her difficulties and what she’s most grateful for throughout her life

Ruth explicas sus interés en música y su vida en el escuela secundaria

During this interview, which was done in November 2017 in Hingham, Massachusetts, Raphael Alexander (15) asks his Grandmother Nancy Griffin (86) about her childhood and life in Quincy, Massachusetts. Mrs. Griffin shares her thoughts about having eight kids, being the...

Humberto Perdomo (74) speaks with his daughter Sarah Gibson (29) about his life growing up in Columbia and his coming to United States.

Jonas Boughter (18) talks to his grandmother Joanne Gigliotti (75) about her career as an artist.