2009 Workshops

• Making the Case for Tenure: A Workshop for Early Career Faculty
  Conveners: Kristen St. John, Mark Leckie, Heather Macdonald
  Saturday, October 4, 2008, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, in conjunction with the Geological Society of America in Houston, TX.
• The Hurricane - Climate Change Connection: Bringing Cutting Edge Research into the Classroom
  Conveners: Cathy Manduca, Ned Gardiner, Jenni Evans
  Electronic workshop, October 20-24, 2008
  Application Deadline: October 1, 2008
• The Role of Metacognition in Teaching Geoscience
  Conveners: Cathy Manduca, Jenefer Husman, Kaatje Kraft, David Mogk, Karl Wirth
  November 19-21, 2008, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
  Application deadline: October 10, 2008
• Teaching Introductory Geoscience in the 21st Century
  Conveners: Anne Egger and Cathy Manduca
  Sunday December 14, 2008, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm in association with the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
• Teaching About Energy in Geoscience Courses: Current Research and Pedagogy
  Conveners: Cathy Manduca, Jimm Myers
  May 17-19, 2009, University of Wyoming
  Application and additional information available in November
  Application Deadline: March 9, 2009
• Teaching Paleontology in the 21st Century
  Conveners: Barbara Tewksbury, Warren Allmon, Rowan Lockwood, Bruce McFadden, and Margaret Yacobucci
  July 30 - August 3, 2009, Cornell University and the Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY
  Application Deadline: February 6, 2009
• Distributed Course Design Workshops
  Summer 2009 - Dates and Locations TBA
• Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career
  Conveners: Heather Macdonald and Richelle Allen-King
  June 14-18, 2009, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  With optional trip to NSF on June 19
  Application deadline: March 11, 2009
• Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences
  Conveners: Heather Macdonald and Robyn Wright Dunbar
  July 16-19, 2009, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Las Vegas, NV
  Application deadline: March 18, 2009

Additional information and application materials will be posted as they become available. Be sure to check back often.

Past Workshops

2008

• Teaching with New Geoscience Tools: Visualizations, Models, and Online Data
  co-conveners: Cathryn Manduca, Susan Buhr, Mark Leckie, Stephanie Stockman and Steve Reynolds
  February 10-12, 2008, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Urban Students, Urban Issues: Opportunities and Challenges for Teaching Geoscience Courses
  co-conveners: Barbara Tewksbury and Wayne Powell
  March 8-10, 2008, Brooklyn College of CUNY and American Museum of Natural History
  Application deadline: January 25, 2008
• New Worlds for Geoscience Teaching: Using Online Games and Environments
  convener: Cathy Manduca and Sean Fox
  Electronic workshop during the week of April 21, 2008
  Application deadline: February 29, 2008
• Teaching Climate Change with Ice Core Data (workshop in association with annual meeting of AMQUA)
  co-conveners: Cathryn Manduca and Cathy Whitlock
  June 2-3, 2008, with optional field trip June 4, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  Application deadline: April 1, 2008.
• Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career
  co-conveners: Heather Macdonald, Richelle Allen-King, and Richard Yuretich
  June 15-19, 2008, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  Application deadline: March 14, 2008
• Teaching Introductory Geoscience Courses in the 21st Century
  co-conveners: Cathryn Manduca, Barbara Tewksbury, Heather Macdonald, and Anne Egger
  July 14-17, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
  Application deadline April 1, 2008.
• Teaching Geomorphology in the 21st Century
  co-conveners: Barbara Tewksbury, Ellen Wohl, Laura Moore, David Montgomery, and Paul Bierman
  July 28 - August 1, 2008, Colorado State University
  Application deadline: January 31, 2008
• Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences
  co-conveners: Heather Macdonald and Robyn Wright Dunbar
  July 31-August 3, 2008, University of Oklahoma
  Application deadline: March 14, 2008

2007

• Motivations and Attitudes: The Role of the Affective Domain in Geoscience Learning
  February 11-13, 2007, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
  
• Teaching about the Early Earth: Evolution of Tectonics, Life, and the Early Atmosphere
  April 12-14, 2007, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  
• Early Career Faculty Workshop: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career
  June 13-17, 2007, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  
• Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences
  virtual workshop: July 30 - August 3, 2007 on line
  face-to-face workshop: July 8-12, 2007, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
  
• Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences
  co-conveners: Heather Macdonald and Robyn Wright Dunbar
  August 2-5, 2007, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  
• Teaching Geophysics in the 21st Century
  co-conveners: Barbara Tewksbury, Larry Braile, Vincent Cronin, John Geissman, Sarah Kruse, and Michael Wysession
  August 12-15, 2007, with optional field trip August 16, University of Michigan's Camp Davis, Jackson WY
  

2006

• Teaching Sedimentary Geology in the 21st Century
  July 14-19. 2006, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• Discoveries from Mars: Using a Planetary Perspective to Enhance Undergraduate Geoscience Courses
  April 27-29, 2006, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences
  July 27-30, 2006, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Early Career Faculty Workshop: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career
  June 7-12, 2006, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
• Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences
  co-conveners: Barbara Tewksbury (Hamilton College), and William Hirt (College of the Siskiyous)
  virtual workshop: July 31-August 4, 2006 on line
  face-to-face workshop: May 31-June 4, 2006, College of the Siskiyous, Weed, CA
• Teaching Public Policy in the Earth Sciences
  April 20-23, 2006, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC
  
  

  Related Activities:

• It's About Time: Teaching the Temporal Aspects of Geoscience
  an Illustrated Community Discussion at a special poster session, Salt Lake City GSA meeting
• Teaching Climate Change: Lessons from the Past
  August 14-15, in conjunction with the 2006 AMQUA meeting
  Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

2005

• Understanding What Our Geoscience Students Are Learning: Observing and Assessing
  May 12-14, 2005, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
  
• Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences
  Virtual Workshop: May 23 - June 23, 2005, online.
  Face-to-face Workshop: June 1-5, 2005, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA.
  
• Early Career Faculty Workshop: Teaching, Research and Managing Your Career
  June 8-13, 2005, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.
  
• Teaching About the Ocean System Using New Research Techniques: Data, Models and Visualization
  July 6-9, 2005, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
  
• Teaching Hydrogeology in the 21st Century
  July 23-28, 2005, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
• Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences
  July 21-24, 2005, Penn State University, State College, PA.
  

Related Activities

• Teaching with Visualizations
  Technical session and one-day workshop at Fall AGU meeting 2004
• Using Field Observations and Field Experiences to Teach Geosciences: An Illustrated Community Discussion
  Special poster session at Denver GSA meeting 2004 (more info)
• Rates, Fluxes and Cycling in the Earth System: What Do We Know, What Are We Thinking
  Technical session at Fall AGU meeting 2004
• Teaching Structural Geology in the 21st Century
  Topical session at Denver GSA meeting 2004 (more info)
• Teaching Geology and Human Health: Expanding the Curriculum
  Topical session at Denver GSA meeting 2004 (more info)
• Teaching Geochemistry in the 21st Century
  Pre-conference workshop at 15th Annual Goldschmidt Conference

2004

• Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations and Models Effectively
  February 26-28, 2004, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
• Geology and Human Health
  May 12-15, 2004, Chico Hot Springs, Pray, MT
• Early Career Faculty Workshop: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career
  June 12-17, 2004, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
• Teaching Structural Geology in the 21st Century
  June 26-July 2, 2004, Smith College, Northampton MA
• Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences
  July 21-25, 2004, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
• Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences
  July 29-Aug 1, 2004, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
  
  Related Activities
• Using Field Observations and Field Experiences to Teach Geoscience: An Illustrated Community Discussion
  November, 2004, Denver GSA Meeting
• Using Data to Teach Earth Processes: An Illustrated Community Discussion
  November 2, 2003, Seattle GSA Meeting
• Teaching Petrology in the 21st Century
  December 2003, San Francisco AGU Meeting

2003

• Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences: A Workshop for Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows
  August 14-17 2003, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences
  July 27-31 2003, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
• Teaching Petrology in the 21st Century
  July 9-15, 2003, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
• Early Career Faculty - Teaching, Research and Managing Your Career
  June 5-10 2003, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
• Developing the Earth Science Teacher Workforce
  May 16 - 17, 2003, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC
• Teaching Biocomplexity in the Geosciences
  April 3-5 2003, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
• Design Principles for Creating Effective Web-based Learning Resources in the Geosciences
  February 9 - 11, 2003, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2002

• Using Global Data Sets in Teaching Earth Processes
  December 5, 2002, American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences
  July 28 - August 1, 2002, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.
• Teaching Quantitative Skills in a Geoscience Context
  July 24 - 27, 2002, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
• Early Career Faculty--Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career
  June 1 - 5, 2002, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.