[iris-bulk] Summer Workshop on Teaching Geophysics

[IRIS]

Hello!

This summer, the NSF-funded program "On the Cutting Edge" will offer  
a week-long workshop on Teaching Geophysics in the 21st Century.  
We've included details about the workshop at the end of this e-mail.  
The application deadline is February 1, 2007.


We are looking for faculty participants who either teach an  
undergraduate course in geophysics or who have expertise in  
geophysics and experience in integrating geophysics concepts into  
other undergraduate courses in the geoscience curriculum in a  
significant way. If this is you, we hope that you will apply to  
attend. We would also be grateful if you could pass this email on to  
colleagues who might be interested.


The workshop will be held from August 12-15, 2007, with an optional  
field trip on August 11. The tentative locale for the workshop is the  
University of Michigan's Rocky Mountain Field Station in Jackson,  
Wyoming.


You can find the on-line application and more information about the  
workshop at http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/geophysics07/ 
index.html. The application deadline is February 1, 2007. If you are  
interested in attending the workshop, we hope that you will apply   
early. If more qualified applicants apply for the workshop than we  
have space for, we may choose to use the date of application as one  
factor in determining the final workshop participant list.

Sincerely,

Workshop co-conveners Barb Tewksbury, Larry Braile, Vince Cronin,  
John Geissman, Sarah Kruse, and Michael Wysession.


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Details about the workshop:

The workshop will be a collaborative effort focused on enhancing the  
teaching of geophysics concepts at the undergraduate level. This  
workshop will bring together college and university faculty to  
explore a wide variety of topics related to teaching geophysics  
effectively both in geophysics courses and as parts of other courses  
taught in the geoscience curriculum. Participants will share  
exemplary laboratory and classroom activities, discuss course content  
and curriculum, explore strategies for integrating geophysics  
concepts and activities across the curriculum, and address issues in  
teaching and learning geophysical concepts and processes.


This workshop will be patterned after the very successful workshops  
on Teaching Mineralogy (1996) and Teaching Petrology (2003), Teaching  
Structural Geology (2004), Teaching Hydrogeology (2005), and Teaching  
Sedimentary Geology (2006). Participants will help develop an on-line  
Geophysics Teaching Materials Collection and review selected items in  
the collection.


Applicants for this workshop must hold a faculty teaching position at  
a two- or four-year college or university and either teach a  
geophysics course or have expertise in geophysics plus experience in  
integrating geophysics in a significant way into other courses in the  
curriculum. We welcome applications from all academic ranks. This  
workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation (CCLI-ND  
Program, Grant DUE-0127310), which covers the cost of meals, lodging  
and workshop activities for participants from the U.S. and its  
territories; travel costs to/from the workshop must be borne by the  
individual or home institution.
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Barbara J. Tewksbury
William R. Kenan Professor of Geoscience
Dept. of Geosciences
Hamilton College
198 College Hill Rd.
Clinton, NY 13323

voice: 315-859-4713
fax: 315-859-4807 **note change in fax number**
e-mail: btewksbu at hamilton.edu