Connecting with Our Community to Bridge Divides and Raise Our Voices (May 2, 2023)

This was a report on the 2023 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Denver. More than 6,000 AAG members converged on Denver ready to re-engage with their geography family after the COVID pandemic. We were at first tentative about being with people in person, yet eager to restart the social-intellectual experiment that these meetings embody.

In an article for ArcNews last year, I called for renewed efforts to suit our methodologies and research to the very real human needs and inequities that the climate crisis reveals: “There is so much more that physical and climate scientists, including geographers, need to learn about how we practice and use our science. We have made great strides in our understanding of the physical nature of climate and climate change. However, our understanding is limited by the fact that we do not incorporate the human element well enough.”

This is the president’s column for the AAG for May 2, 2023.