[Grad-postdoc-assn] [Fwd: [Cuttingedge] May Online Workshop on Earth Science Literacy]

[Paula Fisher]

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Subject: 	[Cuttingedge] May Online Workshop on Earth Science Literacy
Date: 	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:55:40 -0400
From: 	Barbara Tewksbury <btewksbu at hamilton.edu>
To: 	cuttingedge at serc.carleton.edu





Announcement for an Online Workshop on
Earth Science Literacy
May 12-24, 2008
Web site: http://www.earthscienceliteracy.org 
<http://www.earthscienceliteracy.org/>
Workshop registration: 
http://www.betaresourcesinc.com/nc/esliapplication/content/index.htm

Applications are now being accepted to participate in a 2-week online 
workshop (about an hour a day)  that will create a framework of the Big 
Ideas and supporting concepts that will define what all Americans need 
to know about the geosciences. We need your help. With declining 
enrollments in geoscience programs, even in light of growing public 
concern over critical resource issues, global change and reducing risks 
from natural hazards, there is urgent need for broader public 
understanding of geoscience.  A broad interagency effort to address this 
need has been launched, and an NSF-funded workshop is being organized to 
develop a document, /with primary input from the research community/, 
that outlines the essential knowledge necessary to ensure a geoscience 
literate society. 

This effort follows similar ones that resulted in the Ocean, Atmospheric 
Science and Climate Change literacy documents.  Through this geoscience 
workshop, we hope to achieve community consensus among all of the 
disciplines served by the EAR division of NSF in the creation of an 
Earth science document to complement the ocean, atmosphere and climate 
efforts, with the ultimate goal of creating an overall Earth /Systems/ 
literacy document to inform national and local policy making and education.

All members of the Earth science community--especially research 
scientists and post-secondary educators--are invited to apply to 
participate in the online geoscience workshop, which will occur during 
May 12-24, 2008.  Though the workshop takes place over a two-week 
period, participation will require a commitment of only about an hour 
per day, at any time, from anywhere around the world, through an 
asynchronous online environment. Direct participation is limited, but 
the entire community is invited to observe the online process.  A draft 
document will be available for public comment in the early fall.  For 
additional information and an application to participate, go to 
http://www.earthscienceliteracy.org. 
<http://www.earthscienceliteracy.org.%C2%A0/>

Please register at: 
http://www.betaresourcesinc.com/nc/esliapplication/content/index.htm

Sincerely,
Earth Science Literacy Initiative Organizing Committee

Michael Wysession (Co-Chair), Washington University
John Taber (Co-Chair), IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for 
Seismology)
David Budd, University of Colorado
Karen Campbell, NSED (National Center for Earth-science Dynamics)
Martha Conklin, University of California, Merced
David Kirschtel, CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for Advancement of 
Hydrologic Science)
Nicole LaDue, NSF (National Science Foundation)
Gary Lewis, GSA (Geological Society of America)
Robert Raynolds, Denver Museum of Science and Nature
Robert W. Ridky, USGS (United States Geological Survey)
Robert Ross, PRI (Paleontological Research Institution)
Joaquin Ruiz, University of Arizona
Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College
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Barbara Tewksbury

Department of Geosciences

Hamilton College

198 College Hill Rd.

Clinton, NY  13323

 

voice: 315-859-4713

fax: 315-859-4807

email: btewksbu at hamilton.edu

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