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GSA Education & Outreach Programs

2015 Section Meetings

Mentor Programs Career Planning

Plan now to attend a Roy J. Shlemon Mentor Program Wondering how to start your career planning process
in Applied Geoscience and/or a John Mann Mentors in or what employment sector is the best fit for you? Does
Applied Hydrogeology Program luncheon at your 2015 your résumé need some updating? Take advantage of
Section Meeting to receive career advice and chat one- our three one-hour career workshops, which will run at
on-one with practicing geoscientists. FREE lunches will each Section Meeting.
be served!
On To the Future
If you have questions or want to serve as a mentor,
contact Jennifer Nocerino, jnocerino@geosociety.org. Will the 2015 GSA Annual Meeting (1–4 Nov. in
Baltimore, Maryland, USA) be the first one you attend?
Are you a student from an underrepresented group within
the geosciences? If so, come by the GSA Foundation
booth during your Section Meeting welcome reception to
get more information about GSA’s On To the Future
program and how we can help you get to GSA 2015.

Teacher Advocate Program

Did you know that GSA’s Teacher Advocate Program they learned with more than 2,600 teachers. Ultimately,
(TAP) has more than 20 resources for teachers to use in more than 327,000 students will be impacted from this
their classrooms? The Explore Geoscience resources one conference! Teachers do not need to attend a
were developed for teachers by teachers, and they have conference to use our resources, which are available in
proven to be very successful in the classroom. Each the GSA store at http://rock.geosociety.org/store/
resource contains background information, pictures, SearchResults.aspx?Category=EDU. For more infor-
inquiry-based activities that incorporate data for students mation on the Explore Geoscience resources, or for
to manipulate, and 3-D models. GSA’s TAP program professional development training for your school district,
manager, Davida Buehler, provides teacher trainings at contact Davida Buehler at dbuehler@geosociety.org.
various science teacher conferences. In addition to
GSA TODAY | FEBRUARY 2015 training teachers on how to use these resources, she
provides them with background knowledge on the
geoscience topic presented. These conference work-
shops have proven to be highly successful. During the
recent National Science Teachers Association
Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA, Davida was able to
train more than 200 teachers on rocks, minerals, and
earthquakes. These teachers will go on to share what

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