Theme: Community Engagement
The programming listed below seeks to address the topic of Community Engagement.
- Community Engagement
- Course Resources
- Curriculum Design
- Developing Geocompetencies
- Geoscience Education Research
- Implementing InTeGrate
- Online Education
- Professional Development for Undergrads, Grads and Faculty
- Program Design
- Recruiting, Retention, Diversity
- Research for Undergrads
- Student Learning
- Teacher Preparation, Professional Development and Policy Issues
Using Community Science to Advance Earth Science Learning
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Rajul Pandya, AGU
Sarah Wilkins, American Geophysical Union
This workshop is for anyone interested in leveraging their Earth science teaching to produce meaningful local impact. We will introduce the practice of community science, in which projects are designed in ...
Flood Management Plan
SHARE-A-THON
Tuesday
1:30pm-2:40pm
Karen Helgers, Ulster County Community College
In this exploration, students work in groups to develop a watershed-based plan to control flooding. Students are first given information about a historic downstream flood and then work together to develop multiple ...
We're All In This Together: Community science for learning and action
PLENARY TALK
Rajul Pandya, AGU
Science is awesome, especially Earth Science. We've figured out how moving continents create our highest mountain ranges and form our deepest ocean trenches. We know how thunderstorms form, and why some of ...
Broaden and Diversify Your Reach Through Expanding Your Definition of ‘Community of Practice’
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Margie Turrin, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Katie Farnsworth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
Community of Practice (COP) is a term for the collective learning that develops when people who desire to reach a common goal build a support network that fosters open communication and includes shared resources, ...
The EarthConnections Alliance: Engaging Communities through Education
POSTER SESSION
Cathy Manduca, Carleton College
Kevin Bonine, The University of Arizona
Donna Charlevoix, EarthScope Consortium
Rajul Pandya, AGU
Margie Turrin, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
From flooding to resource issues, many of the challenges and opportunities faced by communities around the world can be addressed more successfully if the community can make full use of geoscience. Community scale ...
A Model for Workforce Development: PGS Student Drilling Workshop
POSTER SESSION
Kyle Fredrick, Pennsylvania Western University - California
Daniel Harris, Pennsylvania Western University - California
Tamra Schiappa, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
For over 10 years, the Pittsburgh Geological Society (PGS) has been sponsoring a field workshop for university geology students in southwestern Pennsylvania. The event centers around an exhibition by a local ...
Education, Environment and Social Learning: participative methodologies to geoconservation and sustainability
POSTER SESSION
Vania Maria Nunes dos Santos, University of Campinas
Denise Bacci, Universidade de Sao Paulo
This paper analyzed the contribution of participatory methodologies focused on placed education and social learning processes for geoconservation and sustainability, as a proposal of teacher training in the Gold ...
Leveraging Local Connections to Provide Combined Research and Professional Development Opportunities for Undergraduates
ORAL SESSION
Katie Farnsworth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
Holly Travis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
Matt Genchur, White Township, Indiana County, PA
Students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) are provided with opportunities to participate in undergraduate research. This provides them with many well-known benefits. These well documented benefits ...
Fossil Finding at Fort Negley in Nashville: Linking Deep-Time and Civil War History
ORAL SESSION
Molly Miller, Vanderbilt University
Gregory Smith, Vanderbilt University
Krista Castillo, Metro Nashville Parks
William T. Harris, Metro Nashville Parks
Kitty Porter, Friends of Fort Negley
Jon Badgett, Vulcan Materials Company
Jennifer Berry, Metro Nashville Public Schools
The Friends of Fort Negley Park(FOFNP) have partnered with Vanderbilt University (EES Department), Vulcan Materials Company, and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) to provide fossil programs at the urban ...
Grand Challenges in Earth Learning: Perspectives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities
PANEL DISCUSSION
Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg III, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
De'Etra Young, Tennessee State University
Mintesinot Jiru, Coppin State University
Ambrose Jearld Jr, National Technical Association
This panel, moderated by Richard Schulterbrandt Gragg III (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University), will draw on examples of studies, programs, and policies from Historically Black Colleges and Universities ...