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GSA 2018 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T73. Beyond Pretty Pictures: The Role of Photography in T77. Earth Science Literacy Principals: A Decade after
Promoting Understanding and Learning in the Geosciences Inception, Where Are We Now?
Cosponsors: GSA Geoscience Education Division; GSA Cosponsor: GSA Geology and Society Division
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Geology
and Society Division Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Geoscience Information/
Communication, Geoscience and Public Policy
Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Geoscience and Public Policy,
Geoscience Information/Communication Advocates: Hayley Joyell Smith; Michael E. Wysession
Advocates: Jacquelyn E. Hams; Anita M. Marshall; Susan C. The focus is on the integration of the Earth Science Literacy
Eriksson Principles in public communication and educational frameworks.
This is an opportunity to evaluate the usefulness of the concepts
This session highlights the use of photographic mediums in presented in the document. Presentations on failures, challenges,
learning, documenting, visualizing, and communicating and successes are welcome.
geoscience.
T78. Barriers, Misconceptions, and Progress in Improving
T74. Declining Enrollments in U.S. Undergraduate Geoscience Climate Literacy and Strategies for Communicating about
Programs: How Did We Get Here and How Do We Get Our Climate Change
Groove Back?
Cosponsors: GSA Geoscience Education Division; National
Cosponsors: GSA Geoscience Education Division; National Association of Geoscience Teachers Geoscience Education
Association of Geoscience Teachers; GSA Energy Geology Research Division; Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness
Division Network (CLEAN); GSA Geology and Society Division;
GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and
Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Geoscience Information/ Geomorphology Division
Communication
Discipline: Geoscience Education
Advocates: Miriam Barquero-Molina; Angela Van Boening;
Damon J. Bassett Advocates: Don Duggan-Haas; Patrick Chandler; Anne U. Gold
Declining enrollments in geoscience means departments are This session will focus on research and evaluation of climate
feeling the pain, financial and otherwise. We discuss the reasons literacy efforts and effective ways of communicating about
for the decline and strategies for better recruiting and serving of climate change in general but also in cultural relevant contexts.
our graduates going into the professional workforce.
T79. Showcase of Undergraduate Research Posters by 2YC and
T75. Hidden in Plain Sight: Geology Where You Least Expect It 4YCU Geoscience Students (Posters)
Cosponsors: GSA Geoscience Education Division; National Cosponsors: GSA Geoscience Education Division; National
Association of Geoscience Teachers; National Earth Science Association of Geoscience Teachers; National Association of
Teachers Association Geoscience Teachers Geo2YC Division; International Association
for Geoscience Diversity
Discipline: Geoscience Education
Disciplines: Geoscience Education, Environmental Geoscience,
Advocates: LeAnne Teruya; Mark Boryta; Joseph Petsche Sediments, Clastic
This session will highlight how theme parks, sports venues, Advocates: Adrianne A. Leinbach; Gretchen L. Miller; Stephanie
buildings, malls, and film locations can offer engaging geological M. Rollins
scenery and an interactive context for students learning geology.
This session is designed for two-year college (2YC) and four-
T76. Beyond the Road-Cut: Virtual, Local, and Nontraditional year college and university (4YCU) students presenting research
Field Teaching and Learning Experiences posters in any subdiscipline of geoscience.
Cosponsors: GSA Geoscience Education Division; National T80. Exploring the ART in E(ART)h Science
Association of Geoscience Teachers; National Association of
Geoscience Teachers Geoscience Education Research Division Cosponsors: National Earth Science Teachers Association;
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division;
Discipline: Geoscience Education GSA Geology and Society Division
Advocates: Lauren Neitzke Adamo; Julia Criscione; Jacob Setera; Disciplines: Geoscience Education, History and Philosophy of
Kelsey S. Bitting Geology
Virtual exploration, museum-based assignments, and analysis Advocates: Michael Passow; Belinda E. Jacobs; Carla McAuliffe
of geoscience on campus can be more inclusive ways to enhance
students’ conceptual learning and motivation. This session wel- How important were contributions of artists traveling with
comes presentations describing nontraditional field experiences scientists or recording landscapes far beyond the experience of the
and evidence of their effectiveness. general public in establishing earth science? Perhaps without art,
there might not have been earth science?
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