2022 AAG Annual Meeting

The conference featured more than 4,500 presentations, posters, and workshops by leading scholars, experts, and researchers. Attendees including geographers, GIS specialists, environmental scientists, and other leaders who shared and discussed the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience.

Schedule and Program

Program

Plan your virtual meeting experience by browsing the full program platform containing all presentations, posters, workshops, and special events. You can view by specialty, sponsor, theme or perform your own unique searches for content that interests you. Registered attendees will have access to all Zoom links, as well as the ability to watch recorded sessions for 180 days after the event.

SESSION SCHEDULE

The following session time slots are 80 minutes long with 20-minute breaks. This schedule is subject to change.

TECH TOOLKIT

Have you finished your presentation and want to prepare for your session? Are you a session organizer looking for technical guidance ahead of the conference? Are you an attendee looking to be ready for your annual meeting experience? Take the necessary steps to be prepared.

Special Events

Each year, special events, timely plenaries, and interesting sessions are held during the annual meeting. Check back soon for more new events and information.

Virtual Career Fair

Don’t miss this first-ever Virtual Career Fair at AAG 2022. The event will provide an intuitive, easy-to-use online format for job seekers and employers.

Job seekers: Upload your resume and explore employer information and career opportunities. During the live event, choose which employers to interact with, and engage in a one-on-one chat with representatives. You can connect with as many employers as you’d like until the career fair ends. Members or AAG 2022 annual meeting attendees may register now.

Employers: Organizations, governments, and colleges/universities will receive a fully customized virtual employer booth, complete with your logo, images, open positions, videos and more so you can make your career opportunities stand out. Interested employers may register now.

The event is free to all AAG members and registered participants at AAG 2022. For further questions, email careers@aag.org.

Jobs & Careers Center

The Jobs & Careers Center will feature dozens of sessions on careers and professional development for geographers. It is a central hub for students, job seekers, and other meeting attendees to learn from professional geographers, network with one another, and develop strategies for finding employment in geography-related occupations.

Exhibit Hall

Plan to visit the AAG 2022 virtual exhibit hall. See all of your favorite exhibitors and discover new ones you haven’t met yet!

Themes

Each year the AAG President, in consultation with the Executive Director, identifies themes for the annual meeting to help focus discussion and provide a fresh and engaging structure to the conference program. Due to the extraordinary circumstances during the pandemic, we have retained the four themes established in 2020 and 2021 with an additional new theme for 2022.

• Climate Justice
• Geographies of Access: Inclusion and Pathways
• Ethnonationalism and Exclusion around the World
• The Changing North American Continent
• Expanding the Community of Geography

Registration Fees

To register a spouse/companion or as a K-12/educator/student, contact meeting@aag.org.

2022 Registration Cancellation Policy
(Updated January 18, 2022)

Due to the conversion of the meeting from hybrid to fully virtual, all in-person registrations will be converted to virtual, and the difference in cost refunded to each in-person registrant.  In-person registrants may cancel their registrations, through January 25, 2022, and receive a full refund. After January 25, the 50% cancellation fee will be applied. Virtual registrations are non-refundable. Please note that if you cancel altogether, your submissions will be removed unless you indicate that you are a co-organizer or co-presenter, and you will have no access to virtual content during or after the meeting.

10% cancellation fee – Registration opening to Oct. 21, 2021
25% cancellation fee – Oct. 22 to Nov. 18, 2021
50% cancellation fee – Nov. 19, 2021 to Feb. 1, 2022 (In-person registrants may receive a full refund through January 25, 2022)
100% cancellation fee – After Feb. 1, 2022

Cancel your registration

Deadlines and Submissions

The AAG accepts all submitted abstracts and organized sessions for presentation. The registration fee must be paid prior to abstract submission. You may only submit one abstract for presentation and be a panelist in one panel session. If you opt not to submit an abstract, you may be a panelist twice. There is no limit on how many sessions you may organize.

• September 9: Early Bird Registration Deadline
• EXTENDED TO October 28: Paper Abstract Submission Deadline
• November 4: Paper/Panel Session Organizing Deadline
• January 6: Poster Abstract Submission Deadline
• January 11: Poster Session Organizing Deadline
• January 13: Abstract/Session Editing Deadline

Learn more about guidelines for abstracts and sessions to help you make the most of your presentation.

Get Involved

There are many ways to get involved in the upcoming annual meeting beyond presenting research or participating in a session. Become a sponsor, exhibitor or advertiser, work as a conference assistant to offset your registration fee, involve a non-geographer, serve as a career mentor, or pursue one of the many other opportunities to bolster your participation.

• Sponsorship, exhibitor and advertising opportunities
• Plan a workshop
• Propose a field trip
• Conference assistant positions (Coming soon!)
• Career mentor options
• Non-geographer opportunities (Coming soon!)
• Host a meeting or event

Accessibility and Inclusion

The AAG works to create an Annual Meeting that is accessible to all. This includes reasonable accommodations as specified by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). AAG and its conference venues ensure mobility access within all session and conference rooms.

An accessibility request question is available during the registration process and can also be sent to accessibility@aag.org. If possible, please make accommodation requests no later than one month prior to the meeting. This provides both the AAG and its contracted facilities lead time for ensuring optimal access, e.g. contracting with sign language interpreters.

Enrichment Fund

AAG is pleased to announce the return of the AAG Enrichment Fund. This year, the fund is enhanced to welcome applications from geographers, non-geographers, and students. The purpose of the fund is to provide financial support to those who would benefit from attending the annual meeting, but would be unable to do so without the financial support. Applications will be considered on a competitive basis on the following criteria:

• Purpose and/or goal in attending the annual meeting
• How attending the annual meeting will benefit the individual
• How the individual will enrich the annual meeting
• Participation in the annual meeting
• Outside support/funding being received (i.e., expenses or registration costs that are being paid by a university, company, organization, or other entity)

The priority deadline for applications is November 4, 2021. Applications received after this date will be considered on a rolling basis as funds are available. Read on for more information and email meeting@aag.org with questions.

Accommodations update

Canceling your hotel reservations

If you reserved a hotel using the AAG discount at the Sheraton or Hilton hotels, please note that you should cancel your hotel reservation directly. Please follow the links below to access as soon as possible using the “Manage your Reservation” link on their portals below.

Justify Your Attendance

Requesting funding from your university, company, or organization to attend the Annual Meeting? The AAG provides a justification letter for all prospective attendees to use to help with the funding request process.

Thank you to our sponsors

Land Acknowledgment

What is now known as Manhattan is on the ancestral land of the Lenape People, who continue to endure and care for the land throughout the Northeast, as well as in the diaspora caused by colonial oppression, genocide, and forced displacement. In holding our 2022 annual meeting on this land, AAG acknowledges our responsibility to contribute to its care and to support the sovereignty and tenure of the Lenape People and all Indigenous Peoples. Visit the Lenape Center online.