[Grad-postdoc-assn] [Fwd: [Cuttingedge] May Online Workshop on Earth Science Literacy]
Paula Fisher
paulad at ucar.edu
Tue Apr 22 07:57:53 MDT 2008
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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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