HR: 16:00h
AN: ED14A-01    [Abstracts]
TI: EarthScope Education and Outreach: Exploiting the Synergies
AU: * DeLaughter, J
EM: jdelaughter@earthscope.org
AF: EarthScope, 1200 New York Ave, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005 United States
AB: The EarthScope project is a 15 year long experiment involving the instrumentation of North America with GPS stations, strainmeters, drill holes, and seismometers. It is hoped that earth scientists will integrate the complementary data sets into a new and deeper understanding of plate tectonics processes, such as the recently discovered episodic tremor and slip events in Cascadia. Similarly, EarthScope's education and outreach program must integrate the contributions of existing and vibrant programs to create a new and vital program for exciting students and the general public about earth science. By the end of this project, an EarthScope instrument will have been emplaced in virtually every county in the United States. This provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to create "teachable moments' about earth science on both a national and local scale over the entire educational cycle of an educational cohort. By using EarthScope's progress and discoveries as a means of raising interest in the content and concepts of earth science, we hope to have as profound an impact on science education as on the science of plate tectonics. This presentation will touch on some of the challenges faced by similar integrative programs, such as how to balance local, regional, and national interests. It will detail some of the methods used to leverage the existing work so that the maximum educational impact is created with the minimum of effort; these methods include use of URL rings, wikis, workshops, and prepared publications. It will also describe future plans for EarthScope's education and outreach program, and provide information on getting involved at the local and regional levels.
UR: http://www.earthscope.org/education
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005