Pre Workshop Survey

Thank you for enrolling in the Goldschmidt Workshop entitled "Nanoscience in the Earth and Environmental Sciences—From Theory to Practice." To help us prepare for and optimize the workshop, please take a short time to fill out this survey in the next week, and respond by by July 27. Brief responses are perfectly acceptable. Your responses to us are critical in order to make this workshop productive for all involved. Thank you!

Your name:

Institution

Email address

Participant (check all that apply):
Academic Faculty
Government Employee
Industrial User
Industrial User - Small business (<500 employees)
Undergraduate Student
Graduate Student
Student (other than graduate or undergraduate)
Other (please specify)

1. What is your current interest and experience in nanoscience? What nano-topics are of most interest to you? What research methods/instruments do you use? What are the key research questions you are investigating? (e.g. I am currently doing research/teaching on.....)

2. Please indicate topics (all of which would be approached from a nanoscience and/or nanotechnology point of view) of particular interest to you (check all that apply)
Atomic Structures
Aqueous Geochemistry
Mineral-Water Interfaces
Biomineralization
Geochemical Transport/Geochemical Cycling
Environmental Nanoscience
Soils/Weathering/Clays
Transport and Fate of Colloids
Nanoparticles and Human Health
Nanoparticles in the Atmosphere
Incidental (Anthropogenic) Nanoparticles in the Environment
Engineered Nanoparticles in the Environment
Nano-Inspired Materials (nano-manufacturing)
Teaching about Nanoscience
Nanoscience and Ethics

3. We plan to make this workshop as interactive as possible. Please let us know if there are examples of your work in research/teaching about nanoscience that you would like to present to the group in our "share fair" demonstration Session Sunday morning. This is an opportunity to showcase your research methods and to get direct feedback from colleagues. Demos will be via laptop computer to show representations of your work (e.g. models, software, canned data sets, images, graphs, etc.).

4. With respect to teaching nanoscience, we would like to begin to develop a collection of instructional resources. A) What current activities do you use to teach about nanoscience? OR B) What types of teaching activities need to be developed to help you teach about nanoscience?

5. What are your expectations of the workshop, and what would you like to take back to your home institution? (e.g., new information to support research, new teaching ideas, new networks of colleagues to collaborate with....)?

6. We will be compiling a collection of resources on nanoscience for use by participants and for the larger community. Please provide any resources you use and would like to share such as: citations to key journal articles (e.g., methods papers, review articles), PDFs of recent research contributions, links to URLs of sites that have related information (laboratory facilities, instrument vendor websites, class websites...), images, videos, .... Please provide the information in the box below or send to Dave Mogk (mogk@montana.edu).

Thanks in advance for your interest and responses. Looking forward to seeing all of you in Boston!

David Mogk and Michael Hochella, co-conveners Name Email