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The annual Hawaiian Volcanoes Field Trip class will be held at the Kilauea Military Camp on September 3-16, 2006. This class is held jointly for the UC Davis and UC San Diego campuses, but it is open to other UC undergraduates as well. In 2006 the class is exclusively
offered through the San Diego Campus (Instructor H. Staudigel). If you are interested, read the class syllabus, course description and register for the class so we can keep you updated on changes in plans, or deadlines. Unfortunately, this years course is canceled, but check back on this
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The Fifth GERM Workshop will be held on May 29-31, 2006 on the Columbia University campus in New York City, with pre-meeting sessions on May 28. The Science Advisory Committee includes Steve Goldstein, Francis Albarède, Louise Kellogg, Roberta Rudnick, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink
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The First SBN Workshop will be held on March 24-25, 2006 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. The goal of the Seamount Biogeosciences Network (SBN) is to bring together all the diverse science disciplines involved in seamount research,
to communicate about and discuss seamount science and to explore innovative ways to network amongst the diverse communities that work on seamounts. This upcoming workshop will feature keynote and discussion sessions on important seamount science issues, the sharing of data across disciplines, and
the potential of sharing shore-based and seagoing logistics. SBN is funded as Research Coordination Network (RCN) by the NSF-BIO and OCE directorates. |
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Instructors Peter Schiffman (UCD), Hubert Staudigel (SIO) and Robert Zierenberg (UCD) conducted an Introductory course in Volcanology
in September 2005, at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. Participants learned the fundamental aspects of physical and chemical volcanology. This course has a major field study component and subjects which are introduced in lectures are reinforced and expanded upon through exercises in the field.
Field work may involve hiking as much as 15 miles per day, and gathering data in the form of GPS track data, digital photographs, and other notes. A Class Web Page was developed to record the data and reports provided by students
as well as to explore ways to present volcanology field data. Be certain to visit the Picture Galleries with special footage of the active lava flows.
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Since the birth of the Astrobiology discipline, there has been a need for a forum where graduate students and young researchers can present their research and discuss the field of astrobiology among peers. The
Second Astrobiology Graduate Conference hopes to provide that forum where graduate students can give
scientific lectures to their peers, introduce students to astrobiology science in disciplines other than their own, train the next leaders in astrobiology research, provide a situation where a student can enhance their own network of possible collaborators, contacts and resources, and finally
provide the opportunity for graduate students to come together and create/foster new interdisciplinary collaborative research and friendships. All graduate students and post-docs who study topics related to the origin of life on Earth and the distribution of life in the Universe should attend
this conference.
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The Second Annual ERESE Workshop will be held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on 17-30 July, 2005. This workshop will be devoted to professional development in the pedagogy of plate
tectonics for middle and high school teachers. Participants will explore and apply inquiry-based teaching techniques using authentic data and other materials from science archives at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the major institutions involved in the development of the plate tectonics paradigm. Workshop participants will work side-by-side
with Earth and computer scientists, educators and library/data archive professionals to develop inquiry lessons in plate tectonics of their choice, in accordance with their respective state educational standards. After completion of the workshop, lesson plans will be put in practice in the teachers’
school classroom and become part of the ERESE collection in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). |
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Scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Scripps Institution of Oceanography are teaming up on the Hawaiian research vessel the
Kilo Moana to study the Samoan hotspot. They will leave Pago Pago on 4 April 2005 with an ambitious plan to study previously uncharted underwater volcanoes along the Samoan seamount chain that are scattered over almost 600
nautical miles, from is most recent and quite active Vailulu’u submarine volcano in the east, to Combe Island in the west. The data and rocks collected during the ALIA Expedition will be used to explore the validity of
the hotspot model, which predicts that ocean island and seamount chains are formed on moving lithospheric plates by stationary hotspots in the Earth’s mantle. You can follow the findings of this cruise on our ERESE website, where we
will post photo galleries, interviews, reports, video clips and preliminary data during the course of this expedition.
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Instructors Peter Schiffman (UCD), Hubert Staudigel (SIO) and Robert Zierenberg (UCD) conducted an Introductory course in Volcanology
in September 2004, at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. Participants learned the fundamental aspects of physical and chemical volcanology. This course has a major field study component and subjects which are introduced in lectures are reinforced and expanded upon through exercises in the field.
Field work may involve hiking as much as 15 miles per day, and gathering data in the form of GPS track data, digital photographs, and other notes. A Class Web Page was developed to record the data and reports provided by students
as well as to explore ways to present volcanology field data.
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A two-week summer workshop between 11-24 July (2004) is open to middle and high school teachers who teach Earth science concepts in their curriculum to create Enduring Resources for Earth Science Education (ERESE).
Support includes a stipend for travel and living allowances. Enable your students to design their own personal voyages of discovery. We will concentrate on the ideas of plate tectonics, using real shipboard data and state-of-the-art global Earth science models. Beginning with the discovery of magnetic
seafloor spreading stripes, we will explore the scientific inquiry process of hypothesis and testing. Throughout the workshop, you will be immersed in the researcher’s view of the world, as you work side-by-side in daily sessions with a group of researchers and advanced graduate students.
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The Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM) initiative has the goal of establishing a community consensus on a chemical characterization of the Earth. Its first workshop was held in Lyon,
France to promote such a consensus and to aid in the establishment of a GERM Reference Model. March 28-30, 1996.
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