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GSA 2018 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
GEOSCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY Advocates: Amy Bolton; Bruce J. MacFadden
T66. The Twenty-First–Century Geoscience How do you engage students and families in learning from your
Workforce: What Is It? Who Is In It? Who is Missing? fossil collections? This session addresses a variety of innovative
ways fossil collections are used to teach about Earth’s deep history.
Cosponsors: GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Diversity
in the Geosciences Committee; International Association T70. Geoscience Animations and Videos as Tools for
for Geoscience Diversity; GSA Geoinformatics Division; Learning: Using Them in the Classroom, Making Them, and
GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology Division Assessing Their Impact
Disciplines: Geoscience and Public Policy, Geoscience Cosponsors: National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Information/Communication, Geoscience Education
Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Geoscience Information/
Advocates: Stephen K. Boss; Aisha R. Morris; Ivan G. Carabajal Communication
This session is an exploration of class, gender, and race within Advocates: Robert J. Stern; Jeffrey Ryan
the geoscience workforce. Session presentations will outline what
the geoscience workforce is today and strategies to broaden it into High-quality AND scientifically accurate animations of geo-
the twenty-first century. logic phenomena are uncommon but potentially valuable in K–12
and college teaching. Contributions on innovative classroom uses
T67. Societal Benefits of Application-Specific of animations, their assessment, and how to make them are
Geologic Map Derivatives encouraged.
Cosponsors: Association of American State Geologists; T71. Recruiting and Retaining K9–16 Students through
GSA Geoinformatics Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Field- and Laboratory-Based Geoscience Experiences
Geomorphology Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; (Posters)
GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology Division
Cosponsors: GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA
Disciplines: Geoscience and Public Policy, Geoscience Geoscience Education Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and
Information/Communication, Geoinformatics Geomorphology Division; GSA Geology and Health Division;
GSA Environmental & Engineering Geology Division;
Advocates: William Andrews Jr.; John C. Brock; David R. Soller GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; Council on Undergraduate
Research Geosciences Division; GSA Energy Geology Division;
Derivative maps provide a critical translation from traditional National Association of Geoscience Teachers
framework geologic maps to a wide variety of technical applica-
tions. Quality derivative maps can expand the audience and use of Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Environmental Geoscience,
geologic information while generating significant societal benefit. Geoscience Information/Communication
GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION Advocates: Nazrul I. Khandaker; Stanley Schleifer; Arif M. Sikder
T68. Respecting, Developing, and Implementing Multiple This session will enable faculty and K9–16 students to present
Ways of Knowing within Geoscience Disciplines their field- and laboratory-based research on a variety of geosci-
ences-related aspects, including sedimentology, geomorphology,
Cosponsors: GSA Geoscience Education Division; GSA Geology field geology, environmental geology, urban geology, geoscience
and Society Division; GSA Diversity in the Geosciences Committee education, and new pedagogical approaches.
Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Hydrogeology, Energy Geology T72. Integrating Active Learning Strategies into College-
Level Geoscience Classrooms: Implementation, Effects, and
Advocates: Angel A. Garcia; Darryl Reano “Lessons Learned”
This session will focus on the formal and informal introduction Cosponsors: GSA Geoscience Education Division; National
of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) into classrooms to Association of Geoscience Teachers; National Association of
teach earth science, methods for organizing TEK, and the impacts Geoscience Teachers Geoscience Education Research Division
of educational interventions implemented at the undergraduate
level. Discipline: Geoscience Education
T69. Innovations in Using Fossil Collections for Deep Time Advocates: Jason P. Jones; Katherine Ryker; LeeAnna Young
Education and Outreach Chapman; C. Doug Czajka
Cosponsors: GSA Geoscience Education Division; The integration of active learning strategies into college-level
Paleontological Society; Paleontological Research Institution STEM courses has been shown to improve student outcomes.
This session will explore the evidence behind incorporating active
Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Paleontology, Diversity, learning into geoscience courses.
Extinction, Origination, Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
26 4–7 November • Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
