American Association of Geographers

White box on top of a photo of warehouse workers. Text states: Unseen struggles; Immigrant workers, creative expression and the hidden costs of workplace abuse. Thursday, February 12, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time This webinar examines the hidden experiences of immigrant workers in the Bay Area, focusing on how workplace abuse and organizational politics shape wellbeing, creativity, and everyday life. While the region is celebrated for innovation and opportunity, many immigrant workers navigate precarious labor conditions marked by power imbalances and marginalization. This presentation explores how creative expression and storytelling serve as tools of resilience and resistance, situating these experiences within the Bay Area’s broader social, economic, and cultural landscape. By foregrounding immigrant voices, the webinar offers a deeper, place-based understanding of inequality, labor, and creativity in the region.

#AAG2026 Webinar: This Thursday, Bernice Asantewaa Kumi delves into the overlooked realities faced by immigrant employees in the Bay Area. Learn how workplace abuse and organizational politics shape wellbeing, creativity, and everyday experiences.

Save your seat: buff.ly/ErqocX1

Text on top of white square with cricle frames of panelists' headshots and titles, with text: 2026 Presidential Plenary Catalyzing Positive Food System Change: Geography and The Future of Food and Agriculture President William (Bill) Moseley, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography at Macalester College, will moderate a panel that takes an up-close look at the interplay of technology and geography, particularly in examining the future of food and agriculture. Four panelists will invite reflection on the power of geographical theory and scholarship to illuminate and provide insight on food and agriculture related challenges, as well as the possibilities for positive change. Thursday, March 19, from 11:40 AM - 12:40 PM PT | Continental 4 & 5, Ballroom Level, Hilton Union Square

Don’t miss it! AAG President Bill Moseley joins four panelists at #AAG2026 to take an up-close look at the interplay of technology and geography, particularly in examining the future of food and agriculture. buff.ly/SQPo5xs

Be sure to join the plenary on Thursday, March 19, 11:40 AM - 12:40 PM PT.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a UW–Madison assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history, assisted in writing historical narratives to accompany videos for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

At AAG Detroit in 2025, Dr. LaToya Eaves was in dialogue with Drs. Katherine McKittrick, Willie Jamaal Wright, and Kevin Grove about the pathbreaking book, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.

@spacedemands.bsky.social @blackgeographies.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

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Don't forget: AAG Elections are kicking off! To participate, make sure your membership is current, so you're ready to vote, and watch your inbox for your AAG Election ballot in the coming days.

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Welcome to round two of our PASG Member Spotlight Series!

This week we are highlighting PASG member and PhD candidate Hardt Bergmann!

Feel free to scan the QR code in the image below or click the following link to read her full write-up: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Transgender experience and the question of space | Webinar In this webinar, Dr Eden Kinkaid explores what theory of space emerges from transgender experience and develops a critical phenomenology of space.

Join the Society's Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group for an upcoming event with Dr Eden Kinkaid (e. kinkaid (they/them)) as part of the GFGRG online seminar series:

🔊 'Transgender experience and the question of space'
📍 Online, 6 February

Book your place 👉 https://ow.ly/Ogwb50XTqHU

Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University's geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia and wider institutional po

Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social for providing this entire book open source -- "Let #Geography Die" tells the sad story of how #Harvard dissolved its department because of errant leadership decisions and prejudice cc: @geographers.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

White box on top of a photo of warehouse workers. Text states: Unseen struggles; Immigrant workers, creative expression and the hidden costs of workplace abuse. Thursday, February 12, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time This webinar examines the hidden experiences of immigrant workers in the Bay Area, focusing on how workplace abuse and organizational politics shape wellbeing, creativity, and everyday life. While the region is celebrated for innovation and opportunity, many immigrant workers navigate precarious labor conditions marked by power imbalances and marginalization. This presentation explores how creative expression and storytelling serve as tools of resilience and resistance, situating these experiences within the Bay Area’s broader social, economic, and cultural landscape. By foregrounding immigrant voices, the webinar offers a deeper, place-based understanding of inequality, labor, and creativity in the region.

Our #AAG2026 webinar series continues on February 12! Join Bernice Asantewaa Kumi as she discusses the hidden experiences of immigrant workers in the Bay Area, focusing on how workplace abuse and organizational politics shape wellbeing, creativity, and everyday experiences. buff.ly/pDbpwTQ

Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand The government directed data centers to turn on backup generation in parts of the US. Expanding distributed generation could improve grid resilience.

Dr. Nikki Luke just published a new article for The Conversation US, “Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand.”

Read it now at the 🔗 here: theconversation.com/data-centers...

🌡️🧠 Early-career researchers: turn climate science into action! Apply for the Community Track Fellowship on #ClimateRisk & #Health. 🗓️ Feb 4–Mar 25

Learn more & apply: www.nationalacademies.org/programs/GUL...

#AGIFederation #EarlyCareer #Resilience

For my Italian-speaking friends, my February presidential column for the newsletter of @geographers.bsky.social
(translated into Italian by the Italian Geography Society): "Intervento presidente AAG sui fatti di Minneapolis" www.ageiweb.it/eventi-e-inf...

Congratulations to PASG Board Member Michael Pretes for being recognized as an AAG fellow! Well-deserved!

Three circles with photos of students participating in three annual meetings with text: #AAG2026 Student Day. Wednesday, March 18, 2026. Specialized student offerings dedicated to student research, panels, and activities for all levels of education.

Student Day is returning for #AAG2026! In addition to offerings throughout the entire week, AAG is working with student members to provide specialized student offerings for all levels of education. 🌱 Stay tuned for more information as we continue to share panel sessions and workshop opportunities.

The Qual Research Specialty Group of the
@geographers.bsky.social is holding a free online mini-conference! This is an opportunity for qualitative geographers to convene, share their work, and (for grad students) take part in a workshop! DM me w/ questions, and stay tuned for our AAG sessions!

Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Delighted w the opportunity to review @jenniecstephens.bsky.social wonderful book Climate Justice & the University for the AAG Review of Books. A challenging, inspiring and ultimately hopeful read! Access here www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BBKSM... @geographers.bsky.social @ncl-geography.bsky.social

A dark blue graphic featuring the AAG logo in the top left and the text “Congratulations 2026 Fellows!” beside a short description of the AAG Fellows program. Beneath the text is a list of names of the 2026 honorees. On the right side, a large white frame holds twelve individual portrait photos arranged in a neat grid, showing each fellow smiling or posing outdoors or indoors. The background has soft star shapes scattered across it.

The AAG Fellows program recognizes geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography. This year, AAG welcomes 12 new fellows! Learn more about them and their accomplishments. buff.ly/C1GU0VA

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AAG President @williamgmoseley.bsky.social offers an eyewitness perspective from his hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul, arguing for respect for human rights and international law as the basis for science and society. buff.ly/dlDzIXV

Photo Courtesy of and © David Bowman

The Geography Teacher U.S. National Parks and Protected Areas. Volume 23, Issue 1 of The Geography Teacher

Have you seen the latest issue of The Geography Teacher? It is a special issue on "U.S. Parks and Protected Areas", full of journal articles providing lesson plans for K-12 educators to use in the classroom. Feel free to check it out!

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rget20/2...

Very excited to be part of this session on Surfaces and Subsurfaces as Spaces of Climate Action! @geographers.bsky.social

Elevate the Discipline - AAG

Special thanks to scholars @ivanclimateaffairs.bsky.social, Rajiv Ghimire, Zhiying Li, @riverthoughts.bsky.social, @environmondal.bsky.social, Shannon O'Lear, Mark Ortiz, Farhana Sultana & Laiyin Zhu.

Learn about the program: buff.ly/ummT3Bn (3/3)

Closing the discipline’s long‑standing gap in public relevance will require sustained support and cultural change. Nine geographers from AAG’s Elevate the Discipline program examine the skills and attributes geographers bring to the public arena.

Read the full article: buff.ly/4JLzSQv (2/3)

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NEW: Geographers are well equipped to be public scholars – combining interdisciplinary training with the ability to ground‑truth complex social and spatial issues for broader audiences. Despite increased recognition of public scholarship, public engagement remains underdeveloped in geography. (1/3)

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AAG Elections are kicking off! To participate, make sure your membership is current, so you'll be ready to vote when elections are announced, and watch your inbox for your AAG Election ballot in the coming days.

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Graphic with various shades of blue stars on a faint blue background with white text and AAG logo: "Congratulations 2026 Honors, Fellows, and Awardees."

🌟 Meet our awardees! 🌟 From AAG fellows, honors, grants, and awards, AAG is honoring numerous geographers for their work and achievements in geography. Congratulations to the grantees: buff.ly/sGkuhUp

We look forward to celebrating their accomplishments at #AAG2026.

The webinar offers historical grounding and political-economic context that make Chinatown legible as a lived community shaped by struggle, organizing, and place-based survival within larger systems of capital, labor, and migration. As the oldest Chinatown in the United States, the neighborhood has been a vital site of power building for more than a century. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of how global economic forces and local organizing intersect in shaping the neighborhood’s built environment, public spaces, and everyday life. Featuring panelists Dr. Deland Chan (she/her) Director of Research, Chinatown Community Development Center, and Amy Zhou (they/she), Former Senior Planner, Chinatown Community Development Center.

Join us this Thursday: Get to know San Francisco in our upcoming webinar “Beyond the Tourist Gaze: Power, Place, and Organizing in San Francisco Chinatown,” on February 5, at 10:00 AM PT.

🏙️ Register and learn from our session hosts with the Chinatown Community Development Center: buff.ly/IYh3Zg0

The webinar offers historical grounding and political-economic context that make Chinatown legible as a lived community shaped by struggle, organizing, and place-based survival within larger systems of capital, labor, and migration. As the oldest Chinatown in the United States, the neighborhood has been a vital site of power building for more than a century. Participants will come away with a deeper understanding of how global economic forces and local organizing intersect in shaping the neighborhood’s built environment, public spaces, and everyday life. Featuring panelists Dr. Deland Chan (she/her) Director of Research, Chinatown Community Development Center, and Amy Zhou (they/she), Former Senior Planner, Chinatown Community Development Center.

Get to know San Francisco! Be sure to attend our upcoming webinar “Beyond the Tourist Gaze: Power, Place, and Organizing in San Francisco Chinatown,” on February 5, at 10:00 AM PT.

Register and learn from our session hosts with the Chinatown Community Development Center: buff.ly/HU78Z0N

Happy #GroundhogDay!

Whether the #groundhog sees his shadow or not, we know 1 thing for sure—he’s not the most reliable meteorologist 😂

Why guess when you can explore #WeatherScience yourself?! Head to bit.ly/ESW-activities & search “weather”!

#Meteorology #Weather #EarthScience #LearnByDoing

Elevating the Discipline: Creating Pathways for Geographers as Public Scholars Geographers are well suited to be public scholars, due to their specialized training and interdisciplinary perspectives, which equip them to “ground-truth” and convey knowledge on a wide variety of...

Check out are new paper (led by Lisa Schamess). Great collaboration with a great team of colleagues from #AAG Elevate The Discipline, @geographers.bsky.social

Full article: Elevating the Discipline: Creating Pathways for Geographers as Public Scholars doi.org/10.1080/2469...

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Be sure to join the plenary at #AAG2026 on Thursday, March 19, from 6:00 – 7:00 PM, where Dr. Jon Foley will be honored for his outstanding accomplishments that advance the world’s understanding in exceptional ways. Learn about the awardee: buff.ly/wvtPUi3