EarthScope Science Education and Outreach Provider Summit

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The EarthScope National Office is hosting the EarthScope Science Education and Outreach Provider Summit the next two days at Arizona State University. It is an exciting opportunity to bring together the Education and Outreach Providers and Managers from many of the Earth Science facilities and efforts.

Goal: Develop contacts and improve coordination among organizations that have a relationship to EarthScope education, publich outreach, or science to promote effective development, dissemination, sharing, and usage of the resources of the EarthScope project and of the participating organizations.
We are reviewing the existing efforts of the various groups and also identifying a vision for sharing and leveraging resources and also identifying specific action items.

The Earth Science Literacy Initiative is an inspiring set of principles.

Drs. Bob Lillie (former EarthScope E&O coordinator) and Steve Semken (current EarthScope E&O coordinator) kicked things off with a review of EarthScope Education and Outreach. A number of presenters talked about the common goals and challenges in formal and informal education and the various audiences (General public, K-12, Higher education, Researchers, Practitioners, etc.)

Participating Organizations reviewed their programs

• American Geosciences Institute (AGI) – http://www.agiweb.org/
• Critical Zone Observatories – http://criticalzone.org/
• Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) – http://www.cuahsi.org/
• Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earths Continental Crust (DOSECC) – http://www.dosecc.org/
• EarthScope - http://www.earthscope.org/
• EarthScope Education and Outreach - http://www.earthscope.org/eno
• GeoPRISMS – http://www.geoprisms.org/
• Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) – http://www.iris.edu/
• National Center for Earth surface Dynamics (NCED) – http://www.nced.umn.edu/
• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) – http://www.nees.org/
• National Park Service (NPS) – http://www.nps.gov/
• National Science Foundation (NSF) – http://www.nsf.gov/
• Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) – http://www.scec.org
• Science Education Resource Center (SERC) – http://serc.carleton.edu
• UNAVCO – http://www.unavco.org/
• United States Geologic Survey (USGS) – http://www.usgs.gov/

Here are some mock up pages from SERC (John McDaris) on EarthScope that we need to update:
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/deepearth/earthscope.html
http://serc.carleton.edu/earthscope-eno/earthscope.html

Stay tuned for updates!

Thanks to National Science Foundation (NSF) for supporting our efforts!