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As the Deputy Director of Planetary Science at NASA, Eric Ianson has his hands full overseeing all of NASA’s planetary science missions. We talked to Eric about learning to navigate press conferences, the gratification of launch day, and maintaining focus...

Friends, Carol DeHart (64) and Pamela Cook (67), share a conversation that reflects on their early life, their meeting in college, the way their careers developed, and finally, their faith and spiritual beliefs.

How does one go from being a B+ student who got dressed down by her 8th grade softball coach to the Division Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA? While this might sound like the plot of an inspirational...

Bob Alpern talks of locking eyes with a woman with blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes, at a talk he delivered at the Unitarian Universalist fellowship in Santa Rosa, California,That led to McCarolyn joining Bob in Washington, DC, with an...

Who says work ends when you retire? For Tom Dunne, University of California Santa Barbara, the work is still finding him. Instead of heading off to the Amazon to find discovery, these days he need only look out his window...

How can scientists capture the public’s imagination with science? In this interview, Gordon Grant, a research hydrologist with the US Forest Service and President-elect of AGU'S Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Section, shares his experience of bringing a river to...

James Famiglietti, hydrologist and Director of the Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, discusses his work with NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experience (GRACE) and the evolution of technology throughout his career including its impact on water security....

Vanessa Peters talks to her friend Audrey Swannenberg about her life growing up on the Bad River Reservation, her Native American heritage and her dad’s struggles with drugs and alcohol.