
Mitchell Bender-Awalt
Science Education Resource Center (SERC)
Carleton College
I became a part of the SERC web team in the fall of 2017. I am involved in developing and maintaining web content, supporting webinars and workshops, and participating in education research and evaluation projects.
My research background is in structural geology and metamorphic petrology. My work focused on ocean-continent convergent margins, where metamorphosed and deformed oceanic crust can be used to track the evolution of these plate margins. Before joining SERC I was an adjunct instructor at the University of St. Thomas where I taught courses on Structural Geology and Field Methods.
Website Content Contributions
Conference Presentations (8)
Looking Back and Looking Forward: 10 Years of Earth Educators' Rendezvous part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Poster Sessions:Monday Poster Session
2024 marks the 10th year of the Earth Educators' Rendezvous. This presentation aims to highlight the history of the Rendezvous program, from its inception as part of the On the Cutting Edge and InTeGrate ...
Other Contribution (1)
Facilitating Departmental, Programmatic, and Curricular Change through Traveling Workshops part of Accelerating Systemic Change Network:Events:Meetings and Conferences:Transforming Institutions Conference 2019:Program:Poster Presentations
Academic departments and programs in higher education face challenges in adapting to shifting institutional priorities, fluctuating budgets, evolving research landscapes, and changing employment prospects for ...
Communities

North Central Section, Geo2YC: The Two-Year College Division, Geoscience Education Research Division, Teacher Education Division
July 2024 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2023
July 2023 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2022
July 2022 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2021
July 2021 2021 Transforming Institutions Conference
June 2021 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2020
July 2020 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2019
July 2019 2019 Transforming Institutions Conference
April 2019 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2018
July 2018 Teaching with Augmented and Virtual Reality Interest
Teaching Geoscience Online
Planning for Failure: Landslide Analysis for a Safer Society Interest Group
NAGT Investment Committee
NAGT All
Teach the Earth Website Committee
Teach the Earth
Caltech Seismo Lab Tour 2
Caltech Seismo Lab Tour 1
BASICS Interest
Integrate/GETSI 2023 Survey
NAGT Webinar Series Interest
Earth Educators' Rendezvous Interest Group
Monitoring Volcanoes and Communicating Risks Interest Group
Flood Hazards Interest Group
Teaching Computation Interest Group
Workshop Leader
Workshop Participant (48 workshops)
May 2021 Teaching Online Introductory Geoscience Labs
July 2020 EER 2020 Course Design
July 2020