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Geotimes
September 2004
Rossbacher & Rhodes |
Building Geology for the Future: Cui bono? Academic geology departments are under attack and have been for more than a decade. Now, Geology departments are facing increasing challenges to survive.   |
Geotimes
April 2003
Applegate & Baker |
Geosciences Again Look to Congress to Restore Cuts And we're off! The fiscal year 2004 appropriations process is underway, with one bright spot and several large challenges ahead for geoscientists. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Jill Karsten |
A Unified Approach to Diversifying the Earth Sciences In the geosciences, a community-wide conversation is vital to recruiting and retaining a diverse population. |
Geotimes
July 2004
Christopher M. Keane |
The Geosciences -- Profession or Discipline? The geosciences are potentially at a crossroads -- the field can either continue to be a profession or slowly evolve into a discipline. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Cathryn Manduca |
On the Cutting Edge of Teaching About Early Earth The recent "On the Cutting Edge" workshop brought together experts in early Earth research and undergraduate geoscience education. They developed a variety of ideas to incorporate into the teaching of this challenging subject. |
Geotimes
January 2004
Cynthia Martinez |
Earth Science Week in the Limelight The sixth annual Earth Science Week, held Oct. 12-18, promoted understanding and appreciation of the value of earth science research and its applications and relevance to our daily lives. |
Geotimes
October 2006
Margaret Anne Baker |
Congress Weighs in on Geoscience Training Something must occur to help bridge this gap between potential geoscientific employees' interests and training, and actual job openings. Recent legislation would provide federal funds from outer continental shelf revenues to support these types of activities. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Steinmetz & Dickinson |
Data Preservation: Old Samples Produce New Knowledge The ability to preserve and maintain geoscience data and collections has not kept pace with the growing need for information. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Broadening horizons for students Snee Hall is home to Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Since broadening its subject base in 2002, the department has greatly increased its number of majors. |
Geotimes
March 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Julie Jackson: The quiet public geologist Last fall, the Geological Society of America awarded Julie Jackson their 2003 public service award for her work in communicating geoscience to the public. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Edward C. Roy Jr. |
Assessing Earth Science in Texas In Texas, a group of geoscientists is fighting to restore earth science to the core curriculum of the state's high schools. |
Geotimes
February 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Terrain Flat for '08 Budget Here's a look at where and how the budget for geoscience programs will shift under the new presidential budget request, and what some of the agencies' leaders have to say about those changes. |
Geotimes
November 2003
Naomi Lubick |
Ed Roy: Thinking and teaching in Texas Throughout his academic career as professor of geology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Edward C. Roy Jr. has championed geology for elementary and high school students, as well as for undergraduates. |
Geotimes
January 2007
Margaret Anne Baker |
Diversity in the Geosciences -- We Can Do Better As minorities become the majority of the population, the inability to tap these communities is a severe handicap to actually tapping the bulk of the best and brightest students and including them in the geoscience community. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Jon L. Rau |
Teaching Urban Geology From the Bottom Up Middle- and High School-level textbooks do not contain sufficient geological data to illustrate interesting problems and natural hazards that are related to local geological urban settings, thus forcing teachers to do their own research. |
Geotimes
March 2004
Larry Kennedy |
Dim Prospects for Geosciences `05 Reflecting on my experiences as a congressional science fellow, here are my guesses regarding funding and policy decisions in 2004 that might have an impact on geoscience professionals. |
Geotimes
March 2003
Jan Childress |
Early Impact: EarthComm Lands in Los Angeles The announcement in December of a partnership to support professional development and provide new classroom materials to the earth-science teachers in its public high schools was welcome news to the Los Angeles Unified School District. |
D-Lib
May 2005 |
Influencing User Behavior through Digital Library Design: An Example from the Geosciences A look at how the portal of a digital library can be designed to influence the behavior of its users. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Lubick & Sever |
An Austere Budget for 2006 The overall winners in the Bush administration's budget proposal for next year were, once again, the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. For science agencies, it was a mixed bag, with global observation systems faring well, but with research in energy resources taking some hard hits. |
Geotimes
July 2003 |
Highlights: Discoveries in the Earth Sciences Every year as we compile the Highlights issue, we aim to collect summaries about as many of the earth science disciplines as possible. |
D-Lib
December 2006
Manduca et al. |
Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use Some key approaches that have been successful for the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) in engaging geoscience educators, both as contributors and users in the Teach the Earth library. |
Geotimes
April 2004
Rossbacher & Rhodes |
The Department You Save May Be Your Own: Part I To stay away from the budget-cutting block, departments must be proactive. Geology faculty and students can do a lot to save themselves by never allowing administrators to think they are expendable. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever |
Undergrad Forums: It's All About the Process Student Publishing Prospects... Spotlight on Keck... Spotlight on Argonne... Campus Events... Bigger Fish... |
Geotimes
June 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Geoscience Training in Full Force GeoFORCE, a new summer program designed to shape the next generation of earth scientists, allows students to apply classroom learning to the world around them. |
Geotimes
September 2003
White et al. |
Reaching Out to Communities and Kids with Science San Francisco Bay Area teachers and students are connecting with their watersheds through SF-ROCKS, a program aimed at encouraging ethnic minority participation in the geosciences. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Larry Kennedy |
A Geological Path to City Hall A former geology student, John Hickenlooper is now a political legend, the little-known entrepreneur who climbed from single digits in the polls only six weeks before the May election to win it outright. |
Geotimes
January 2007
Edward Derbyshire |
International Collaboration in Global Science: Price or Prize? The UN triennium 2007 - 2009 International Year of Planet Earth aims to contribute to the improvement of everyday life, especially in less-developed countries, and by promoting the societal potential of the world's earth scientists. |
Geotimes
April 2004
Charles Groat |
A Celebration of 125 Years In the 125 years since its creation, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has provided the scientific information needed to make important decisions and safeguard society. |
Geotimes
March 2007
MacFadden & DeSantis |
No More Ivory Tower: Communicating Geoscience to Society Traditionally, geoscience students have had few opportunities to engage in public outreach projects as part of their formal education. Yet their participation in broader impact activities can improve public understanding of science in the immediate future. |
Geotimes
March 2003
Lisa M. Pinsker |
Terrorism puts foreign students in spotlight Big changes are confronting the foreign student community in the United States. |
Science News
January 5, 2008 |
Science Safari: Focus on Our Planet The United Nations website to show communities how they can promote sustainable use of Earth's resources. |
Geotimes
September 2003
O'Connell et al. |
Connecting With the River In Hartford, Conn., an innovative program is teaching students from varied backgrounds about their local river ways. In the water and in the lab, they're getting excited about earth science. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Lisa A. Rossbacher |
Is there a doctor in the house? Geoscientists can help benefit public health. A lot. But if we wait to be asked, we could wait a very long time. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Lisa Rossbacher |
Scouting for Geologists Helping young people learn about geology through earning scouting merit badges should be a much larger outreach effort. All the geoscience professional societies can play a role, as well as college and university geology departments. |
