Interpreting and Teaching with Tomograms
Apr 3 - May 29, 2013 Seismic Tomography for Teaching and Research à Hide Caption A tomographic image of seismic velocities for North America using surface waves [S. van der Lee] Provenance: Permission from S. van der Lee Reuse: This ...

Geophotography Workshop 2013
Feb 26 - Apr 2, 2013 This event has already taken place The geosciences rely heavily on photographic images as one of the most important means by which information is recorded and shared. Geophotography encompasses a number of genres: ...

Pursuing an Academic Career 2013
Feb 21 - May 16, 2013 This workshop is designed to aid graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in planning future academic careers. Participants will have opportunities to plan compelling teaching and research statements, share and review assignments and activities, network with others embarking upon academic careers, and prepare for communicating their their teaching ideas in the future.

Career Development Teaching Webinar: Jigsaws
Jan 31 2013 Jigsaws: Designing for success: January 31, 2013 Ã Hide Caption Students in jigsaw groups Provenance: Dave Tewksbury Reuse: This item is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike ...

Teaching Structural Geology, Geophysics, and Tectonics in the 21st Century
Jul 15-19 2012 July 15-19, 2012; optional field trip July 15 University of Tennessee, Knoxville Applications: This workshop has already occurred. What are the grand challenges, leading edge ideas, and frontiers in structural ...

Career Prep Workshop 2012
Jun 27-30 2012 Annual workshop helping graduate students and post-doctoral fellows prepare for an academic career through the development of teaching and research skills as well as a personal action plan.

Climate Change Workshop 2012
Jun 19-20 2012 June 19-20, 2012 At the Large Lakes Observatory and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Minnesota Duluth This workshop has already taken place. This workshop will be held in conjunction with ...

Early Career Workshop 2012
Jun 10-15 2012 June 10-14, 2012 with trip to NSF on Friday, June 15 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA Ã Hide Caption Course design session at the 2012 Early Career workshop Reuse: This item is offered under a ...

Teaching Environmental Geology
Jun 3-8 2012 Tom Price iron-ore mine -- Pilbara Desert, Australia. These are the banded-iron formations similar to those preserved in the nearby Karajini Gorge -- January 2008. Image taken by K. Wiese. June 2-6, 2012 Montana ...

Active Learning Strategies for Geoscience Teaching
May 11 2012 This half-day workshop will help college faculty and secondary-school teachers in the Earth sciences to introduce active-learning strategies into predominantly lecture-based classes. Participants will be introduced to a schema for developing their own materials, and will have an opportunity to develop and review such activities. These will be collected for inclusion on the On the Cutting Edge website. Participants will leave the workshop with the pedagogical foundation and in-class learning resources they need to better engage their students.