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AN: ED32A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Sea & See Experiences for Undergraduates: Educational Outreach in Papua New Guinea
AU: * Johnstone, E A
EM: eajohnst@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive, GRD 0244, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States
AU: Driscoll, N W
EM: ndriscoll@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive, GRD 0244, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States
AU: Hill, J C
EM: jchill@coastal.edu
AF: Coastal Carolina University, 1270 Atlantic Avenue, Conway, SC 29526, United States
AU: Hogarth, L
EM: lhogarth@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive, GRD 0244, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States
AB: As scientists involved in the NSF-MARGINS Source-to-Sink (S2S) initiative, we included education of undergraduates from the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) in our research mission. During a two-month cruise, many students participated in all aspects of scientific data collection, including acquiring sediment cores and geophysical data along the mid-shelf clinoform in the Gulf of Papua. Additionally, an educational website was created for web users around the globe to provide a daily journal and scientific background information relevant to the formation and evolution of the study area. As a follow-up two years later, researchers and graduate students funded by the grant hosted a three-day intensive course, as well as provided necessary hardware and software, allowing UPNG students to learn processing routines and examine pertinent data from their region. This experience not only offered instructive and enlightening opportunities to students from an underprivileged University to partake in a U.S. federally funded project, but we also donated state-of-the-art equipment for the Geology department at UPNG that will be utilized for years to come. Many of the students graduating from this program go on to work with the mining companies that are omnipresent in Papua New Guinea due to the abundant mineral resources in this region. Our goal was to provide an academic experience outside of the classroom demonstrating how non-commercial science fosters increased understanding and awareness through discovery of Earth's local geologic history.
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DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting