ED31B:
Education General Contributions I Posters


Session ID#: 9719

Session Description:
Geoscience education is critical for ensuring the future of geoscience research, the geoscience workforce, and an informed citizenry.  If your geoscience education work does not fit into the other geoscience education sessions please submit them to Education General Contributions.
Primary Convener:  Tamara S Ledley, Bentley University, Waltham, MA, United States
Convener:  Michelle Hall, Science Education Solutions, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  Michelle Hall, Science Education Solutions, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Tamara S Ledley, Technical Education Research Centers, Cambridge, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michelle Hall, Science Education Solutions, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Is there a crisis in American Higher Education? (58678)
Logan Crawford, Miami University Hamilton, Hamilton, OH, United States and Mysore Narayanan, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States; Miami Univ-Hamilton Campus, Hamilton, OH, United States
Does Question Structure Affect Exam Performance in the Geosciences? (78480)
Elizabeth A Day1, Mitch Keith D'Arcy2, Lorraine Craig2, Michael J Streule2, Emma Passmore2 and Jessica C E Irving3, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
“What's A Geoscientist Do?”: A Student Recruitment And Education Tool (80467)
Christopher G Hughes, Clarion Univerisity of Pennsylvania, Biology and Geological Sciences, Clarion, PA, United States
Increasing Diversity in Global Climate Change, Space Weather and Space Technology Research and Education (86497)
Leon P Johnson1, Shermane A. Austin2, Armando McNeil Howard2,3, Christopher Boxe4,5, Michael Jiang2,6, Taran Tulsee2, Ying Wei Chow2, Rosa Zavala-Gutierrez2, Rita Barley2, Bulat Filin2 and Kevin Brathwaite2,7, (1)Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (2)Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Physics and Computer Science, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Turbulence Group, New York, NY, United States, (4)Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, Environmental Science & Chemistry, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (5)CUNY Graduate Center, Chemistry Division, Earth and Environmental Science Division,, Manhattan, NY, United States, (6)Medgar Evers College Prep School, Brooklyn, NY, United States, (7)Manhattan Transit High School, New York, NY, United States
Redesigning Curricula in Geology and Geophysics (82069)
David Walter Sparks1, Ryan C. Ewing2, Debra Fowler2, Maria Macik2, Franco Marcantonio3, Brent Miller4, Julie Newman1, Thomas Olszewski2, Robert Reece5 and Suzanne Rosser2, (1)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Texas A & M University College Station, Department of Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Texas A&M University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, College Station, United States, (5)Texas A&M University, Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States
Active Learning Techniques Applied to an Interdisciplinary Mineral Resources Course. (68051)
Hannah M Aird, California State University Chico, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Chico, CA, United States
Promoting Physical Understanding through Peer Mentoring (73293)
Susan M Nossal, Amihan Huesmann, Eric Hooper, Chris Moore, Larry Watson, Akire Trestrail, Josh Weber, Peter Timbie and Anthony Jacob, Univ Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Early Career Summer Interdisciplinary Team Experiences and Student Persistence in STEM Fields (83770)
Ana Cristina Cadavid, Vicki A. Pedone, Werner Horn and Harvey Rich, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States
Learning geosciences from science fictions movies: A quantitative analysis of Pando-magnetism in Avatar. (72690)
Fatima Martin-Hernandez1, Ana M Negredo2 and Jose Manuel Salguero1, (1)Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (2)Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Physics of the Earth and Astrophysics, Madrid, Spain
Translating the Science of Measuring Ecosystems at a National Scale: NEON’s Online Learning Portal  (73024)
Leah A Wasser, University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab Earth Analytics Education Initiative - CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Delivering and Incentivizing Data Management Education to Geoscience Researchers (63816)
Shelley L Knuth, Andrew Carl Johnson and Thomas Hauser, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Project EDDIE: Improving Big Data skills in the classroom (60037)
Dax Christian Soule1, Nick Bader2, Cayelan Carey3, Devin Castendyk4, Randy Fuller5, Catherine Gibson6, Rebekka Darner7, Jennifer Klug8, Thomas Meixner9, Lucas E Nave10, Catherine O'Reilly11, David Keith Richardson12 and Janet Stomberg7, (1)CUNY Queens College, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, NY, United States, (2)Whitman College, Geology, Walla Walla, WA, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Sciences, Blacksburg, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, United States, (6)Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, (7)Illinois State University, Biology, Normal, IL, United States, (8)Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, United States, (9)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (11)Illinois State University, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal, IL, United States, (12)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Transforming Undergraduate Education Through the use of Analytical Reasoning (TUETAR) (59129)
Michael Peter Bishop1, Chris Houser1 and Kelly Lemmons2, (1)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Tarleton State University, Department of Social Sciences, Stephenville, TX, United States
Promoting Strong Written Communication Skills (48296)
Mysore Narayanan, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States

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