HR: 08:45h
AN: ED51C-04    [Abstracts]
TI: Coring Into Earth's Past with Real Scientific Data
AU: * Sutton, M
AF: Carteret County Schools, 1 Safrit Drive, Beaufort, NC 28516, United States
AU: * Sutton, M
AF: ARMADA Project, Office of Marine Programs University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay Campus, Narragansett, RI 02882, United States
AB: The session takes participants on a journey through Earth's past using sediment core data from decades of seafloor drilling. The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program includes a database of field reports and data for thousands of miles of sediment cores drilled from the seafloor of Earth's oceans. An array of scientists are mastering an integrated approach to studying these cores, including climatologists, paleontologists, seismologists, paleomagnetists, sedimentologists, microbiologists, physicists, and chemists. An overview of the science behind the core will be blended with inquiry activities designed to enhance student understanding of this new realm of scientific research that is answering many questions about Earth's past and future. Information and activities presented in this session are based on ARMADA Teacher at Sea experiences aboard a Canadian Research Vessel as scientists completed seismic analyses and piston core sampling in the Labrador Sea and on experiences with the Joint Oceanographic Institute's School of Rock 2007 held at the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's Gulf Coast Repository in College Station, Texas.
DE: 0448 Geomicrobiology
DE: 0465 Microbiology: ecology, physiology and genomics (4840)
DE: 0473 Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography (3344, 4900)
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 3036 Ocean drilling
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting