HR: 08:45h
AN: ED41A-04    [Abstracts]
TI: SAGE (Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience): Learning Geophysics by Doing Geophysics
AU: * Jiracek, G R
EM: jiracek@moho.sdsu.edu
AF: George R. Jiracek, Dept. of Geological Sciences San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-1020 United States
AU: Baldridge, W S
EM: sbaldridge@lanl.gov
AF: W. Scott Baldridge, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division MS D462 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Biehler, S
EM: biehler@ucrac1.ucr.edu
AF: Shawn Biehler, Dept. of Earth Sciences University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 United States
AU: Braile, L W
EM: braile@purdue.edu
AF: Lawrence W. Braile, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 United States
AU: Ferguson, J F
EM: ferguson@utdallas.edu
AF: John F. Ferguson, Geoscience Program University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080 United States
AU: Gilpin, B E
EM: begilpin@cox.net
AF: Bernard E. Gilpin, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 United States
AU: Pellerin, L
EM: pellerin01@aol.com
AF: Louise Pellerin, Green Engineering 8471 Foxlair Circle, Anchorage, AK 99507-3668
AB: SAGE, a field-based educational program in applied geophysical methods has been an REU site for 16 years and completed its 23rd year of operation in July 2005. SAGE teaches the major geophysical exploration methods (including seismics, gravity, magnetics, and electromagnetics) and applies them to the solution of specific local and regional geologic problems. These include delineating buried hazardous material; mapping archaeological sites; and studying the structure, tectonics, and water resources of the Rio Grande rift in New Mexico. Nearly 600 graduates, undergraduates, and professionals have attended SAGE since 1983. Since 1990 REU students have numbered 219 coming from dozens of different campuses. There have been 124 underrepresented REU students including 100 women, 14 Hispanics, 7 Native Americans, and 3 African Americans. Tracking of former REU students has revealed that 81% have gone on to graduate school. Keys to the success of SAGE are hands-on immersion in geophysics for one month and a partnership between academia, industry, and a federal laboratory. Successful approaches at SAGE include: 1) application of the latest equipment by all students; 2) continued updating of equipment, computers, and software by organizing universities and industry affiliates; 3) close ties with industry who provide supplemental instruction, furnish new equipment and software, and alert students to the current industry trends and job opportunities; 4) two-team, student data analysis structure that simultaneously addresses specific geophysical techniques and their integration; and 5) oral and written reports patterned after professional meetings and journals. An eight member, 'blue ribbon' advisory panel from academia, industry, and the federal government has been set up to maintain the vitality of SAGE by addressing such issues as funding, new faculty, organization, and vision. SAGE is open to students from any university (or organization) with backgrounds including geophysics, geology, engineering, physics, and mathematics. SAGE is sponsored by the Los Alamos National Laboratory Branch of the University of California's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. More information is available on the SAGE web site at http://www.sage.lanl.gov/.
UR: http://www.sage.lanl.gov
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
DE: 0855 Diversity
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005