HR: 10:50h
AN: ED42A-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Launching and Undergraduate Earth System Science Curriculum with a Focus on Global Sustainability: the Loma Linda University Experience
AU: * Ford, R E
EM: rford@univ.llu.edu
AF: School of Science and Technology, Departments of Natural Sciences and Social Work and Social Ecology, Loma Linda University,, Loma Linda, CA 92350 United States
AU: Dunbar, S G
EM: sdunbar@univ.llu.edu
AF: School of Science and Technology, Departments of Natural Sciences and Social Work and Social Ecology, Loma Linda University,, Loma Linda, CA 92350 United States
AU: Soret, S
EM: ssoret@sph.llu.edu
AF: School of Public Health, Health Geoinformatics Unit, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350 United States
AU: Wiafe, S
EM: swiafe@sph.llu.edu
AF: School of Public Health, Health Geoinformatics Unit, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350 United States
AU: Gonzalez, D
EM: daniel_gonzalez_socoloske@hotmail.com
AF: School of Science and Technology, Departments of Natural Sciences and Social Work and Social Ecology, Loma Linda University,, Loma Linda, CA 92350 United States
AU: Rossi, T
EM: rossihockey@yahoo.com
AF: School of Science and Technology, Departments of Natural Sciences and Social Work and Social Ecology, Loma Linda University,, Loma Linda, CA 92350 United States
AB: The vision of the School of Science and Technology (SST) at Loma Linda University (LLU) is to develop an interdisciplinary approach to doing science that bridges the social, biological, earth, and health sciences. It will provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to apply new tools and concepts to the promotion of global service and citizenship while addressing issues of global poverty, health and disease, environmental degradation, poverty, and social inequality. A primary teaching strategy will be to involve students with faculty in applied field social and science policy research on "global sustainability" issues and problems in real places such as Fiji, Jamaica, Honduras, Bahamas, East Africa, and the US southwest (Great Basin, Salton Sea, coastal California, southern Utah). Recently we became a partner in the NASA/USRA ESSE21 Project (Earth System Science Education for the 21st Century). We bring to that consortium strengths and experience in areas such as social policy, sustainable development, medicine, environmental health, disaster mitigation, humanitarian relief, geoinformatics and bioinformatics. This can benefit ESSE21, the NASA Earth Enterprise Mission, and the wider geosciences education community by demonstrating the relevance of such tools, and methods outside the geosciences. Many of the graduate and undergraduate students who will participate in the new program come from around the world while many others represent underserved populations in the United States. The PI and Co-PIs have strong global as well as domestic experience serving underrepresented communities, e.g. Seth Wiafe from Ghana, Sam Soret from Spain, Stephen Dunbar from the South Pacific, and Robert Ford from Latin America and Africa. Our partnership in implementation will include other institutions such as: La Sierra University, the California State University, Pomona, Center for Geographic Information Science Research, ESRI, Inc., the University of Redlands, Center for Environmental Studies, and the Center for Education and Equity in Mathematics, Science, and Technology of California State University, Pomona (CEEMaST). Our presentation in brief will outline our plans, progress to date, lessons learned, and seek feedback on how to improve.
UR: http://resweb.llu.edu/rford/ESSE21/
DE: 9360 South America
DE: 4815 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
DE: 6334 Regional planning
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE (New category)
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting