HR: 0800h
AN: ED21C-0073 [Abstracts]
TI: The ERESE Project: Interfacing with the ERDA Digital Archive and ERR Reference Database in
EarthRef.org
AU: * Koppers, A A
EM: akoppers@ucsd.edu
AF: IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
United States
AU: Staudigel, H
EM: hstaudig@ucsd.edu
AF: IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
United States
AU: Mills, H
EM: hillsmills@yahoo.com
AF: IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
United States
AU: Keller, M
EM: mekeller@ucsd.edu
AF: IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
United States
AU: Wallace, A
EM: a1wallac@ucsd.edu
AF: IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
United States
AU: Bachman, N
EM: nbachman@ucsd.edu
AF: IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
United States
AU: Helly, J
EM: hellyj@ucsd.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
United States
AU: Helly, M
EM: Hellymc@mail.bay.k12.fl.us
AF: A.C. Mosley High School, 501 N. Mosley Dr., Lynn Haven, FL 32444
United States
AU: Miller, S P
EM: spmiller@ucsd.edu
AF: GDC, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0220
United States
AU: Massell Symons, C
EM: csymons@ucsd.edu
AF: GDC, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0220
United States
AB:
To bridge the gap between Earth science teachers, librarians, scientists and data archive managers, we have started the ERESE
project that will create, archive and make available "Enduring Resources in Earth Science Education" through information
technology (IT) portals. In the first phase of this National Science Digital Library (NSDL) project, we are focusing on the
development of these ERESE resources for middle and high school teachers to be used in lesson plans with "plate tectonics"
and "magnetics" as their main theme. In this presentation, we will show how these new ERESE resources are being generated,
how they can be uploaded via online web wizards, how they are archived, how we make them available via the EarthRef.org
Digital Archive (ERDA) and Reference Database (ERR), and how they relate to the SIOExplorer database containing data objects
for all seagoing cruises carried out by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The EarthRef.org web resource uses the vision of a "general description" of the Earth as a geological system to provide an IT
infrastructure for the Earth sciences. This emphasizes the marriage of the "scientific process" (and its results) with an
educational cyber-infrastructure for teaching Earth sciences, on any level, from middle school to college and graduate
levels.
Eight different databases reside under EarthRef.org from which ERDA holds any digital object that has been uploaded by other
scientists, teachers and students for free, while the ERR holds more than 80,000 publications. For more than 1,500 of these
publications, this latter database makes available for downloading JPG/PDF images of the abstracts, data tables, methods and
appendices, together with their digitized contents in Microsoft Word and Excel format. Both holdings are being used to store
the ERESE objects that are being generated by a group of undergraduate students majoring in Environmental Systems (ESYS)
program at the UCSD with an emphasis on the Earth Sciences. These students perform library and internet research in order to
design and generate these "Enduring Resources in Earth Science Education" that they test by closely interacting with the
research faculty at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Typical ERESE resources can be diagrams, model cartoons, maps,
data sets for analyses, and glossary items and essays to explain certain Earth Science concepts and are ready to be used in
the classroom.
UR: http://earthref.org/ERESE/
DE: 3040 Plate tectonics (8150, 8155, 8157, 8158)
DE: 3045 Seafloor morphology and bottom photography
DE: 1535 Reversals (process, timescale, magnetostratigraphy)
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting