From mogk at montana.edu  Wed Jan 12 11:36:50 2005
From: mogk at montana.edu (David Mogk)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:36:50 -0700
Subject: [Healthwksp] Health Workshop Updates
Message-ID: <41E57C52.50801@montana.edu>

Greetings Health Folks:  Wishing all of you a happy new year, and  I 
hope you're all looking forward to a great winter term.

Here are a few updates regarding Geology and Human Health:

    * First, thanks to all who planned and contributed to the Pardee
      symposium and theme sessions at the GSA Annual meeting. By all
      accounts both events were a tremendous success.
    * I'd like to encourage you all to continue to contribute to the
      resource collections on the workshop webpage:
       http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/health04/index.html  

 Thanks to Yan Zheng for starting the year with a new submission to the 
activity collection.  We really need to build this part of the 
collection, and I'm sure you all have one or two great exercises that 
you can contribute.  You can contribute a  teaching activity, URL, or 
other reference at: 
 http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/health04/contribute.html

    * Please use this listserv!  This provides a great forum for
      floating ideas, querying colleagues, asking for specific
      information, etc. Please share with the group what you're thinking
      about and doing these days.  
    * I'll start:  I'm teaching Environmental Geology for non-majors
      this term, and the sub-theme of this course will be Geology and
      Human health.  We will be doing a series of debates in class on
      health-related issues (e.g. asbestos at Libbey, MT).  I'll
      encourage my students to regularly use the resources on the
      webpage. We will also do a campus-wide poster session on Geology
      and Human Health (similar format to GSA posters).  Students will
      be expected to use the resources that are available on the
      webpage, and also to discover and contribute additional resources
      on the topics of their choice.  Also, one optional class activity
      will be to read one of the popular books from the on-line
      "Bookshelf" and prepare a book review.  
    * The PIs for the On the Cutting Edge program are beginning to gear
      up to write the next proposal to support this series.  Please take
      a few moments and complete the Follow-On survey at:
       http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/survey.html  We need to
      collect this information to demonstrate that our workshops have
      had continuing impacts on faculty and students.  
    * Here's a recent article of interest:  Toxic Breast Milk? by
      Florence Williams  in the  January 9, 2005 issue of the New York
      Times (Sunday) Magazine.
    * It would be great if someone would volunteer to monitor the
      ensuing health issues related to the recent tsunami tragedy, and
      help build collections of URLs, references, etc. on this topic.
       In the midst of this tragedy we have a global teachable moment
      that we really must take advantage of.

Wishing you all a year of (Geology and) Health and happiness.  Write 
home once in awhile via the listserv!
cheers,
Dave Mogk


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