[Viz] AGU Session on Teaching with Visualizations: Call for Abstracts

[Michelle Hall]

AGU Session on Teaching with Visualizations: Call for Abstracts

There will be a special session focusing on teaching with visualizations
at the Fall 2004 American Geophysical Union Meeting (Dec 13-17) in San
Francisco. The session will focus on how we use visualizations to reveal
Earth processes and understand geoscience concepts. We are also interested
in examples of how to develop students' ability to think as geoscientists.
If you interested in submitting an abstract and have questions, please
contact the convenors listed below.

Session abstract - ED19: Teaching with Visualizations
Geoscience is one of the most visual of sciences. This session will focus
on the role of visualization in geoscience thinking and the development of
visualization skills in our students. Contributions showcasing examples of
how we use visualizations, including images, animations, and models, to
help our students understand geoscience concepts and to develop their
ability to think as geoscientists are encouraged.

Co-convenors:
Cathy Manduca (cmanduca at carleton.edu),
Michelle Hall (hall at scieds.com), and
John Crabaugh (jcrabaug at carleton.edu)

OTHER RELEVANT  INFORMATION
Abstract Submission Deadlines:
On-Line Abstracts must be submitted to AGU by 9 September 2004, 2359UT*.

At 2359 UT the local times will be:
Boston 19.59h
New Orleans 18.59h
Seattle 16.59h
Santiago 19:59h
Paris 1:59h Friday 10 Sept.
Moscow 3:59h Friday 10 Sept.
Tokyo 8:59h Friday 10 Sept.
Sydney 9:59h Friday 10 Sept.

Membership Requirement:
Abstracts can be submitted only when the first author is an AGU member in
good standing; if the first author is not an AGU member, the submission
must be sponsored by an AGU member in good standing who has agreed to do
so.
Membership application or renewal must be received no later than 27 August
2004 in order to submit an abstract, and the AGU membership number must be
provided with the abstract submission. Membership numbers of first authors
will be validated against the AGU membership database, and submission will
not be allowed unless membership is current.

First Author Policy:
A person, as first author, may submit one (1) contributed paper and one
(1) invited paper, if the invitation is approved by a Program Committee
member for inclusion in the program. If a person accepts the invitation to
be the first author on a second invited paper, this person must forgo the
first author, contributed paper. In order to submit an invited abstract,
the first authors name must appear in the invited author's list provided
by session conveners. The only exception to this policy is the submission
of abstract to Education (ED) or Public Affairs (PA) sessions. For details
on these exceptions please visit In summary, a first author can have the
following combination of submissions.
a.   1 contributed abstract
b.   1 contributed and 1 invited
c.   2 invited abstracts, but no contributed abstracts
d.   2 contributed abstracts only if one is submitted to a planned
Education OR Public Affairs sessions.

Full submission guidelines can be found on the AGU Web site on the 2004
Fall Meeting page, www.agu.org/meetings/fm04/

AGU website: Further information is available at the AGU website at
http://www.agu.org/


Michelle Hall
Science Education Solutions
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