Esri and the 2025 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

Many know of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as one of the world’s most well-respected Earth science scholarly organizations. Its annual fall meeting usually dwarfs the Esri UC by well over 10,000 attendees. Last year’s event attracted over 27,000 attendees from more than 100 countries, maintaining its status as the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. This year’s conference (#AGU25), December 15-19, 2025, in New Orleans, will be of similar size over the course of just one week, with presentations in oral and poster sessions, in-person and virtual eLightning sessions, and an in-person exhibitor showcase.

Esri is once again a PREMIUM-level exhibitor with an on-site booth presence (#945 across from NASA) under the theme of A Geographic Approach to Address a Resilient Planet. There will be a bevy of rich content and messaging around how the open, flexible, and interoperable ArcGIS analysis ecosystem is streamlining data handling, enhancing spatial analysis for environmental monitoring, and enabling more effective science communication, higher-ed science curricula, and teaching. Demo content will include multidimensional scientific data and analysis, imagery, big data geoanalytics, raster analytics, data publishing and no-code apps, ArcGIS Pro, R and Python integration, ArcGIS Notebooks, ArcGIS Hubs for open data platforms, ArcGIS StoryMaps, Learn ArcGIS, MOOCs, the entire web GIS pattern, and more. These demos will be shown in four themed kiosks: Earth Sciences (including World [Terrestrial] Ecosystems (aka Ecological Land Units), Ecological Marine Units, Ecological Coastal Units and Earth science content in The Living Atlas of the World), Open Science (our commitment to open/interoperable, especially via R, Python and open deep learning models), Research (including our Esri’s GIS analysis ecosystem that innovates open scientific discovery), and Career Development, especially via Esri’s Young Professionals Network.

Throughout the entire conference, Esri will have booth staff available each day should any AGU attendee have questions, wish to speak with Esri experts, or view a number of live science demos. Free pens, stickers, notebooks, and our famous luggage tags will be part of the action too. In addition, a variety of science books from Esri Press will be available for browsing. Esri is also sponsoring water filling stations to help keep single-use items out of landfills and contribute to environmental charities. With the “Fill it Forward” technology, we will participate in tracking the collective environmental impact of #AGU24 attendees and report back on the waste diverted.

See our daily schedule of demos at the Esri Booth (#945).

Many thanks to Esri Earth Sciences Solution Director Lorraine Tighe for coordinating the participation of 13 booth staff in this important scientific conference.

Beyond the booth, Esri will also be represented at several oral and poster sessions, as well as section meetings such as the AGU Informatics Group, the AGU Open Science Team, the Alaska Science Facility NASA Distributed Active Archive Center & Synthetic Aperture Radar Outreach group, and the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Open Science Cluster.

We are also pleased to share the lineup of presentations that will be made by Esri staff at the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting. You’ll see in the list below of scientific papers, posters, and entire sessions that Esri is leading or contributing on a wide variety of interesting and important projects. Many of these are in collaboration with our federal partners at NASA, NOAA, US Forest Service, Department of Energy, EPA, and the USGS, as well as several universities and national laboratories. This showcases how Esri not only enables great understanding of the world with our products and services, but also performs good science, and contributes well as a member of the scientific community, sharing and inspiring others as to The Science of Where.

AGU PRESENTATIONS and SESSIONS with Esri Co-Authors

(where G = Geodesy, GC = Global Environmental Change, H = Hydrology, IN = Informatics, NH = Natural Hazards, U = Union oral talks; codes without dashes are entire sessions)

G13B 21st Century Geodesy: Growing the Field by Highlighting Contributions and Careers in the Service of Society I

G21A 21st Century Geodesy: Growing the Field by Highlighting Contributions and Careers in the Service of Society II

G21A-03 Professional Surveyors and the Geodesy Crisis: An Opportunity to Grow our Profession AND Public Awareness

GC32B-01 A practical approach to urban heat mapping for communities around the world

GC34D-03 Global Ensemble Forecasts Reveal Accelerating Urban Land-Cover Conversion and High Uncertainty

H11H-03 An Interactive GIS-Based 3D Flood Simulation Tool to Support Resilient Community Design

IN003 Advancements in Earth Science Data Access and Visualization through Emerging Technologies I

IN52A Advancements in Earth Science Data Access and Visualization through Emerging Technologies II

NH42B-05 Demonstrating a Pipeline for Operational Use of the National Water Model for Responding to Community-scale Flood Hazards

U31A-03 Bridging Data and Decision: Making Landsat Accessible for Public and Commercial GIS (Invited)

Poster – The Climate Resilience Information System: A New Open Data Portal for Developers of Climate Services

Poster – Does freshwater drive acidification and aragonite under-saturation in Hudson Bay?

Poster – Geodesy: Promoting a Resilient World Through Geospatial Data Sustainability

SELECTED AGU PRESENTATIONS or SESSIONS by OUR USERS

(where IN = Informatics, P = Plantetary Sciences)

IN52A-03 Freely available tools for immersive 3D visualization of Earth science data in real-world contexts

P22B-01 Investigating Lunar Hydrogen Anomalies in Mons Mouton and its Surroundings

Poster – Advancing Remote Sensing and GIS Through Development of Hyperspectral Imaging Open-Source Ecosystem

Poster – Assessing Recharge Decline and Identifying Flood Recharge Potential in the Santa Cruz Basin

Poster – Assessing Vulnerability and Flood Risk in Coastal Alabama, USA Using Remote Sensing and Climate Projections

Poster – Chesapeake Bay Digital Twin

Poster – Communicating and Visualizing Fire Event Evolution in Near-Real-Time

Poster – Development of an Open-Source Harmonized Low-Cost Sensor Data Archive to Maximize Scientific Return from Existing Networks

Poster – Environmental Controls on Dust Devil Diameters: A Field Study from Smith Creek Valley, NV

Poster – Flood Impact Analysis of Downtown Brunswick GA: An Upper Level CURE Product

Poster – From Ashes to Analysis: Evaluating Vegetation Recovery after Wildfires in the US Pacific Northwest

Poster – Geological Mapping of Io in the Juno Era (Invited)

Poster – High-resolution airborne LiDAR and drone analysis of topographic character at Enchanted Rock, Texas

Poster – Investigating Mining Impacts on Groundwater and Soil in Missouri’s Ozarks

Poster – Modeling Regional Water Yield and Its Environmental Drivers: A Machine Learning Approach for the Southeastern United States

Poster – A Modular Game-Based Learning Platform for Advancing Coastal Resilience Education in K–12 and Undergraduate Classrooms

Poster – A Multi-Parametric Heat Risk Assessment through Integrated Climate, Demographic, and Land Use Analysis: A Divisional-Scale Case Study from Bangladesh

Poster – Not Another Research Paper: Empowering U.S. Industries to Apply NOAA Research and Data using StoryMaps

Poster – Quantifying the Effects of Blue Carbon Storage Considering Coastal Landscape Change in Hatiya and Manpura Islands of Bangladesh: A Remote Sensing Approach

Poster – Taming the Data Zoo: A Toolkit for Standardizing ABoVE’s Diverse Arctic Data

Poster – Time-Series Analysis of Potential Mining Impacts in Southeast Georgia

Poster – Tsunami Digital Twin: Progress and Applications to Japan and the US

Esri at past American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meetings in 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018.