Buddy Can You Spare...Support for a Graduate Student? part of Earth and Mind:Posts
The past two years I've had the privilege of working with some of the best and brightest young geoscientists in the country through our NSF-REU project on Precambrian Rocks of Yellowstone National Park. We ...

"What DOES poison oak look like?" part of Earth and Mind:Posts
The current iPhone4 advertisement has a photograph of poison ivy labelled as poison oak, which Kim sees as evidence of the feeble state of natural history education in America.

Too Fast to Measure part of Earth and Mind:Posts
To her prior description of three possible relationships between the timing of an Earth process and the timing of making observations of the product or trace of that process, the author adds a fourth possibility: ...

Budgets part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Reflections on why the debate on national debt does not apply the same reasoning to the issue of climate change.

"What should be the temperature of the ocean?" part of Earth and Mind:Posts
A students' question while viewing a data visualization can be viewed through several lenses: the need for a norm in interpreting a new data type, the dynamic nature of the ocean, acceptable thresholds for ...

Questions we don't think to ask part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Limbs that are ripped off a tree hold their leaves, even as the rest of the parent tree looses its leaves. Kim had never noticed or questioned this might be. When it was pointed out and explained on a recent walk, ...

Lessons Learned from Decades of GeoEd Reform part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Author shares lessons learned from geoscience education reform with math educators embarking on a similar endeavor. Suggestions are:

In which I encounter a "Merchant Of Doubt" part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Author contemplates Dr. William Nierenberg, who was the Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography when she received her PhD there, but is accused of being a "Merchant of Doubt" on acid rain and ...

Should we call on non-volunteering students? part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Author postulates that calling on non-volunteering students in class, if done carefully, can set up opportunities for the "self-explantion effect" to come into play and foster deeper, longer-lasting ...

Temporal Reasoning in Geosciences part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Temporal reasoning plays a crucial role in geology, and links geology to other historical sciences including archeology, history, cosmology and developmental psychology. Temporal reasoning draws meaning from ...