HR: 16:15h
AN: ED14A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Hundreds of Cruises, Thousands of People, Endless Discoveries - Education and Outreach in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
AU: * Peart, L
EM: lpeart@joiscience.org
AF: Joint Oceanographic Institutions, 1201 New York Avenue Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005 United States
AU: Niemitz, M
EM: mniemitz@joiscience.org
AF: Joint Oceanographic Institutions, 1201 New York Avenue Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005 United States
AU: Boa, S
EM: sboa@joiscience.org
AF: Joint Oceanographic Institutions, 1201 New York Avenue Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005 United States
AU: Corsiglia, J
EM: jcorsiglia@joiscience.org
AF: Joint Oceanographic Institutions, 1201 New York Avenue Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005 United States
AU: Klaus, A
EM: annklaus@iodp.tamu.edu
AF: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A and M University 1000 Discovery Drive, College Station, TX 77845 United States
AU: Petronotis, K
EM: petronotis@iodp.tamu.edu
AF: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A and M University 1000 Discovery Drive, College Station, TX 77845 United States
AU: Iturrino, G
EM: iturrino@ldeo.columbia.edu
AF: Borehole Research Group, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University PO BOX 1000, Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AB: For 37 years, scientific ocean drilling programs have sponsored hundreds of expeditions, drilled at over 1,800 sites and recovered over 200 miles of core. The discoveries of these programs have led to important realizations of how our earth works. Past expeditions have validated the theory of plate tectonics, provided unparalleled ancient climate records and recovered evidence of the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago - and new discoveries occur with every expedition. By producing education materials and programs and encouraging mass media journalists' interest in our news, we strive to fulfill our commitment to communicate our programs' scientific discoveries to the public, in a way that people - not just other scientists - understand. With the advent of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), education and outreach efforts have expanded to pursue new opportunities and engage wider audiences. Through our strategy of Teaching for Science, Learning for Life^TM, our education efforts seek to utilize the interdisciplinary nature of scientific ocean drilling to teach career awareness, scientific methods, teamwork, and problem solving techniques for a lifetime of learning, decision making and good citizenship. In pursuit of this goal, we have implemented professional and resource development programs and expanded our outreach at education-focused conferences to help teachers use IODP science to satiate the student's need to learn the methods of science that apply to everyday life. We believe that this message also applies to life-long learners and thus we have focused our efforts on news media outreach and education opportunities surrounding ports of call of the JOIDES Resolution, permanent and traveling museum exhibits. In addition, our outreach to undergraduate and graduate audiences, through a lecture series, research fellowships and internships, helps to create future generations of science leaders.
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 0830 Teacher training
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005