[Geochemwksp] Mars workshop: reminder about deadline

[btewksbu]

Please note that the application deadline for this workshop is Feb 
15. We hope that you will apply to attend, if you haven't already 
done so, and that you will encourage colleagues to do the same! We 
apologize if you have received multiple copies of this email.

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In late April, the NSF-funded program "On the Cutting Edge" will 
offer a 2-day workshop "Discoveries from Mars: Using a Planetary 
Perspective to Enhance Undergraduate Geoscience Courses". The 
workshop will be held April 27-29, 2006 at Arizona State University 
in Tempe, Arizona. You can find the on-line application and more 
information about the workshop at 
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mars06/index.html

The purpose of the workshop is to address the fact that undergraduate 
geoscience courses are typically taught using only terrestrial 
examples. Integrating examples from other planets into commonly 
taught undergraduate courses provides a unique and timely opportunity 
for students to test their observation and data analysis skills in 
new planetary environments and to learn first hand that study of the 
Earth provides only one data point for exploring how and why 
planetary processes work. The wealth of recent data from Mars on 
everything from geophysics to climate change provides an opportunity 
to expand examples beyond the terrestrial realm in undergraduate 
courses ranging from hydrogeology to petrology, from structural 
geology to sedimentary geology.

Our aim in this workshop is to promote an approach of Mars across the 
curriculum so that more undergraduate students can have experience 
with the wealth of new data from Mars. The workshop will bring 
together Mars researchers and undergraduate geoscience faculty with 
interest or expertise in planetary geoscience with the aim of 
catalyzing an effort to make resources, assignments, and activities 
readily available on line to faculty across the country to integrate 
into a wide variety of commonly taught undergraduate courses.

We very much hope that you will apply to attend the workshop and that 
you will pass this information on to other colleagues who might also 
make valuable contributions at the workshop. The workshop will be 
limited to 30 participants, and the application deadline is February 
15, 2006.

For more information, please contact Barb Tewksbury at btewksbu at hamilton.edu

Sincerely,

Workshop co-conveners Barb Tewksbury, Tracy Gregg, Eric Grosfils, 
Phil Christensen, and Ron Greeley
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Barbara J. Tewksbury
William R. Kenan Professor of Geoscience
Dept. of Geosciences
Hamilton College
198 College Hill Rd.
Clinton, NY 13323

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