Workshop Anticipated Program

Friday

Alaskan plate tectonics, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes; seismic and GPS monitoring; earthquake preparedness

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• 7:30 Coffee/tea & continental breakfast (Room 107)
• 8:00 Introduction and Overview of EarthScope ANGLE Workshop (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 42.1MB Sep30 22) (Jen Pickering)
• 8:45 Beauty and the Beast: Plate Tectonics and Geological Hazards of Alaska (Beth Pratt-Sitaula & Instructional team)
• 10:00 Break (Coffee/tea & other snacks in Room 107)
• 10:15 Icebreaker: Getting to know other people in the workshop
• 10:35 Basics of Geohazard Science and Related Teaching Activities (Instructional team)
  • Earthquake Basics
• 12:00 Lunch (Served in Cafeteria)
• 1:00 Basics of Geohazard Science and Related Teaching Activities (Instructional team)
  • Tsunami Basics
• 3:00 Break (Coffee/tea & other snacks in Room 107)
• 3:15 Earthquake preparedness, ShakeAlert, ShakeOut, Quake Catcher Network (Bob de Groot)
  • ShakeAlert: Earthquake Early Warning For All (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 43MB Oct2 22)
    • ShakeAlert handouts-resources (Zip Archive 14.4MB Oct2 22)
  • Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill and QuakeCatcher Seismometer Network (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 59.1MB Oct2 22)
    • QCN Fact Sheet April 2022 (Acrobat (PDF) 442kB Oct2 22)
  • Oreo Cookie Tectonics activity (Acrobat (PDF) 2.3MB Oct2 22)
• 4:25 Questions, Reflection, Implications (Instructional team)
• 4:40 Forms, Reimbursements, Stipends, Photo Permissions; Logistics for Day 2 Field Trip; Daily feedback form (Jen Pickering)
• 5:00 Adjourn

Saturday

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Field Trip: Alaska earthquake and tsunami geology; EarthScope GPS installation; earthquake and tsunami emergency planning

• 7:30 Coffee/tea & continental breakfast available in Atrium
• 8:00-5:00 Bus departs from UAA Gorsuch Commons at 8:00am!
  Stops: Sunset Park, Bird Point, Whittier, and Girdwood.
  Field trip guide and boxed lunch will be provided on the bus.
  (Jen Pickering, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, Bob de Groot, Master Teachers)
• Field Trip Guide: The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami--Consequences of Living on the Leading Edge in Alaska
  

Sunday

Alaskan plate tectonics, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes; seismic and GPS monitoring; earthquake preparedness

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• 7:30 Coffee/tea & continental breakfast
• 8:00 Alaskan Earthquakes & Tsunamis and Related Teaching Activities (Instructional team)
  • Alaska Earthquakes & Tsunami Presentation
• 10:00 Break
• 10:15 Tsunami Safety and Preparedness 2022 (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 22.1MB Oct3 22) (Summer Ohlendorf)
• 10:50 Alaskan Volcanoes and Related Teaching Activities (Jennifer Pickering)
  • Alaskan Volcanoes & Hazards Presentation
• 11:45 Thoughts/questions/reflection (Instructional team)
• 12:00 Lunch (Served in Atrium)
• 1:00 Role of Traditional Knowledge in Preparedness and Resilience: Histories and Stories (Jen Pickering)
• 2:30 Break
• 2:45 Science & Preparedness Skit: Interpretation Through Storytelling & Humor (Instructional team)
• 3:00 Birds of a Feather Breakouts: Relating Geohazard Science to Learners at Various Venues (Informal Educators: Bob de Groot; Teachers: Jen Pickering, Eben Stone, Leola Rutherford)
• 3:45 Action Teams work on community educational project on earthquake, tsunami and volcano preparedness. Project plan will be presented on Day 4 of the workshop, and the results of the implementation will be presented at the Share-a-thon on March 23 2023, in Anchorage.
• 5:00 Adjourn

Monday

Community natural hazard preparedness; Action Team presentations and post-workshop action plans

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• 7:30 Coffee/tea & continental breakfast
• 8:00 Geologic Hazards and the Built Environment -- community resilience activity (Jen Pickering, Instructional team)
• 8:40 Alaska Preparedness and Planning for Personal and Community Resilience (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 20MB Oct3 22) (Stephen Brown & Robert de Groot)
• 9:15 Break
• 9:30 Response planning for a range of situations and places -- Earthquake Scenarios (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 16.1MB Oct3 22) (Stephen Brown)
• 10:30 Action Teams: Final preparations for presentations and discussion about the task, schedule, and logistics for each Action Team to develop their Share-a-Thon products.
• 12:00 Lunch (Action teams may want to sit together to continue discussions & planning)
• 1:00 Action Teams: Present their ideas for development of Community Educational Programs on geohazard science and preparedness. 15 minutes total per group (10 minutes presentation; 5 minutes discussion). Groups are encouraged to model how they will present specific concepts in different educational settings.
• 3:00 Post-Workshop Survey
• 3:30 Adjourn

Educational Materials in the Workshop Binder

The activities found in the workshop binder are all available in the Educational Materials section of the website and cross referenced from the presentation links above as well. We list the activities again here in order of appearance in the binder in case that is helpful.

1. Rocks are Elastic!! Seeing is Believing
2. Fault Models for Teaching About Plate Tectonics
3. World Map of Plate Boundaries
4. Earthquake Machine
5. Human Wave: Modeling P and S Waves
6. Seismic Slinky: Modeling P and S waves
7. Quake Catcher Network Instructor Guide & User Tutorial
8. Reading an Earthquake Seismogram
9. Understanding Earthquakes: Comparing Seismograms
10. USArray Seismic Wave Visualizations
11. How Do We Know Where an Earthquake Originated?
12. Pasta Quake: Exploring Earthquake Magnitude
13. Earthquake Hazard Maps & Liquefaction: Alaska
14. Build a Better Wall
15. Building Shaking —Variations of the BOSS Model
16. Alaska GPS Analysis of Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
17. Exploring Tectonic Motions with GPS
18. Investigating Factors That Affect Tsunami Inundation
19. Be Smart, Be Prepared! Planning an Emergency Backpack
20. Engaging with Earthquake Hazard and Risk
21. Geologic Hazards and the Built Environment
22. Geologic Hazard Community Action Plan
23. Measure a Changing Volcano
24. Volcano Monitoring with GPS: Westdahl Volcano Alaska