Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX)

This program from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) helps volunteer scientists and community leaders work together to use science to tackle community issues and advance local priorities related to natural hazards, natural resources, and climate change. The program focuses on:

• Local priorities. Conversations, projects, and actions are directed by local priorities, values, and goals. Local context and priorities are the basis for determining the most relevant science skills to bring to a project to make an impact.
• Collaboration. Community science depends on combining expertise from within and outside of science. TEX brings Earth and space scientists to the same table as local experts and regional leaders. Through such collaborations, both science and local knowledge are brought to bear to make communities safer, healthier, and more resilient.
• Concrete impact. Community science produces local impact and will result in a physical, institutional, or knowledge-based change in the community. Community science has ripple effects: it can change the ways scientists approach research, alter public perception of science, and generate solutions that can be shared by many different communities. 

TEX is for anyone interested in community science—the use of science to advance local and regional priorities. It is a network for people to connect, launch projects, solve problems, and share their results.