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AN: ED21C-0077    [Abstracts]
TI: Experiences and Results from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Teacher at Sea Program, Expedition 301
AU: * Rice, J
EM: jrice@tds.net
AF: Green Mountain Union High School Green Mountain Union High School Green Mountain Union High School Green Mountain Union High School, 716 Route 103 South, Chester, VT 05143 United States
AU: Iturrino, G J
EM: iturrino@ldeo.columbia.edu
AF: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Borehole Research Group Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Klaus, A
AF: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University 1000 Discovery Drive, College Station, TX 77845 United States
AB: The IODP US implementing organization began a Teacher at Sea Program (TASP) during Expedition 301 to the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The main scientific objectives of this expedition were to establish borehole observatories as part of a series of multidisciplinary experiments that will help evaluate the hydrogeologic properties of the oceanic crust, including the distribution of fluid pathways within an active hydrothermal system as well as the linkages between fluid circulation, alteration, and microbiological processes. The goals of the U.S. sponsored IODP TASP were to provide the participant with seagoing research experiences, working side-by-side with scientists, using current state-of-the-art approaches to solve scientific problems pertinent to this expedition, and gaining first-hand knowledge of the results of seagoing science. In addition, the participating teacher will use these experiences for translating scientific results into useful teaching resources, such as expedition information materials and help disseminating these resources into classrooms across the country. During IODP Expedition 301, the participating teacher spent 2 months working with shipboard scientists in processing core data and learning the different techniques used for the shipboard laboratory analyses. Several laboratory briefs targeted for middle to high school student audiences were developed during the cruise including the microbiology, chemistry, paleomagnetics, and physical properties laboratories and educational classroom activities are currently being developed. In addition, other laboratory briefs and educational activities for the underway geophysics, core, downhole measurements, and paleontology laboratories are being developed as part of the post-expedition curriculum development initiatives. The teacher also kept a daily journal detailing life at sea experiences as well as all the science and operational developments that took place during the expedition. The journal entries can be found at http://iodp.ldeo.columbia.edu/EDU/TAS/. Interaction with other middle school and high school educators while at sea was successful via a conference call where experiences and general daily operations were shared.
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0830 Teacher training
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting