ASCN Community Conversation: Building and Sustaining a Faculty Mentor Constellation
Posted: Sep 22 2026
In today's complex university landscape, no single person can successfully guide your research pipeline, perfect your teaching pedagogy, decipher department politics, and preserve your work-life balance. This fast-paced 75-minute interactive workshop from ASCN helps faculty members map, identify, and secure the multi-layered network of mentors needed for career advancement, research support, and work-life balance.

Webinar: Teaching 3D visualization skills through Visible Geology webinar
Posted: Sep 22 2026

Join us for an interactive webinar showcasing example lessons using the freely available Visible Geology web-based applications. We'll introduce a suite of new, peer-reviewed teaching activities designed for structural geology, sedimentology/stratigraphy, and field methods.

Workshop: Developing Activities for Flumes and Stream Tables
Posted: Sep 3 2026

This 2-session virtual workshop, sponsored by the Emriver Educational Resources project, will focus on helping educators develop ideas for teaching with flumes and stream tables into implementable teaching activities.

Revamped For Higher Ed Portal
Posted: Aug 27 2026
SERC's For Higher Ed portal has been updated and refreshed with new resources from across the SERC portfolio! The portal provides faculty, department chairs, and others with direct access to resources to improve teaching practice and strengthen programs and systems.

Workshop for Heads and Chairs at AGU
Posted: Aug 24 2026

This one-day workshop provides an opportunity for leaders of geoscience departments to come together to learn, share, and build community to collectively strengthen geoscience programs and departments.

SERC Spotlight
Posted: Jul 16 2026

Ellen Iverson, director, and Kristin O'Connell, evaluation/education associate, co-authored a paper with colleagues titled, "Building Institutional Capacity for Research Impacts: The ARIS ORIC Program," in Research Management Review.

Congratulations to Ellen, Kristin, and their co-authors on this outstanding achievement!

Visible Geology teaching activities
Posted: Jun 1 2026

Developed by geoscience faculty, these versatile, single-day teaching activities utilize Seequent's Visible Geology web-based application to strengthen students' spatial reasoning and geological analysis skills. Designed for quick integration into homework, lectures, or labs, they help prepare the next generation for the geoscience workforce.

SERC Authors Co-Lead Study on Widely Adopted, Data-Rich Teaching Resources
Posted: Mar 30 2026

Beth Pratt-Sitaula, along with Kristin O'Connell (SERC), Bruce Douglas, Becca Walker, Benjamin Crosby, Ellen Iverson (SERC), and Donna Charlevoix, have published a new paper on the GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI) program.

New The Math You Need - Majors publication in Education Sciences
Posted: Feb 12 2026

SERC congratulates SERC Science Education Associate Rory McFadden and colleagues Michael Coe, Beth Pratt-Sitaula, and Eric Baer on a recent article they co-authored in Education Sciences entitled "Geoscience Mathematics Self-Efficacy Scale (GeoMSES) for Majors-Level Undergraduates: Psychometric Data."

Building Leadership Capacity to Support Two-Year College and Disciplinary Society Collaborations workshop report is published
Posted: Feb 2 2026

The final workshop report from the Building Leadership Capacity to Support Two-Year College and Disciplinary Society Collaborations workshop (which took place throughout spring and fall 2025) is now published.