News Releases and Announcements
Below, you can see all the news items and community announcements that have been released starting with the most recent. If you would like to narrow your view to just national news or a particular section's news, use the links in the box on the right side of the page. You can also view the online supplement to current and past issues of In the Trenches, our Community Advertisements, past issues of the e-News Magazine, and more using the links in the navigation menu on the left side of the page.
Posted: May 17 2013
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is an interactive, open-access journal from the European Geosciences Union. In 2012 they published a special issue on Hydrology Education in a Changing World. All the abstracts and articles for this issue are available on the HESS website - http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/special_issue152.html. The 28 articles in the issue include:
- Hydrological education and training needs in sub-Saharan Africa: requirements, constraints and progress
- Moving university hydrology education forward with community-based geoinformatics, data and modeling resources
- Irrigania - a web-based game about sharing water resources
- Reframing hydrology education to solve coupled human and environmental problems
Posted: May 17 2013
We are excited to share with you a new venture for our National Fossil Day (NFD) partnership. During 2013 we have designed the NFD Art Contest theme to promote the idea of establishing a "National Fossil" for the United States. Now that we have a National Fossil Day รข perhaps we might want to open up the discussion about what fossils would make good candidates as America's National Fossil.
Posted: Apr 17 2013
The April issue of In the Trenches should be reaching your mail boxes in the near future. But you can check out the Online Supplement now on the NAGT Website:
http://nagt.org/nagt/publications/trenches/issues/apr13.html
Posted: Apr 17 2013
Each year, NAGT recognizes outstanding teaching assistants in geoscience education with up to 30 awards annually. Both undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants are eligible for the award. Award winners receive an one year membership in NAGT, which includes an online subscription to the Journal of Geoscience Education and the new In The Trenches quarterly magazine.
For more information about the award and how to nominate your teaching assistant, see the program page at http://nagt.org/nagt/programs/ta.html.
Deadline for nominations is June 15.
Posted: Apr 17 2013
NAGT Member Margaret "Beth" McMillan was recently awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the University of Arkansas - Little Rock. You can read more about Beth and this university-wide recognition at http://ualr.edu/facultyexcellence/2013/04/08/dr-margaret-e-mcmillan/.
Congratulations, Beth!
Posted: Apr 17 2013
The April issue of Frontiers, the newsletter of the GEO2YC Division has been released. You can get this issue and past issues on the Division website - http://www.nagt.org/nagt/divisions/2yc/newsletters.html.
Posted: Apr 17 2013
The annual Pacific Northwest conference is scheduled for June 24-28, 2013 in scenic Coos Bay, Oregon. You will have an opportunity to attend 4 days of field trips along the spectacular Oregon Coast and a conference day. Early registration rates are available until May 15th. Check out the conference website at: http://www.socc.edu/nagt2013/index.shtml. Questions can be addressed to Ron Metzger, Pacific NW Section President and 2013 Conference host at rmetzger@socc.edu. Join us for a tour de force of leading edge geology.
Posted: Apr 17 2013
As usual, NAGT will be participating extensively in the 2013 GSA Annual Meeting in Denver.
The theme for the meeting is "Celebrating Advances in Geoscience - 125th Anniversary".
You can see a listing of the topical sessions that NAGT is sponsoring at the meeting and additional information on workshops, events, and meetings will be added as it becomes available.
2013 GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition
27-30 October 2013
Denver, Colorado USA
http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2013/
Abstract deadline: 6 August 2013
Registration Deadline: 23 September 2013
Posted: Apr 1 2013
We are excited to announce and invite you to apply to our 2013 InTeGrate call for authors for courses and modules that bring together engineering, sustainability, and the geosciences or that use a humanites or social science frame to teach about the Earth. Proposal deadline is July 15, 2013.
Posted: Nov 2 2012
The InTeGrate program is offering 3 new workshops for 2013, plus one partnership workshop in collaboration with On the Cutting Edge.
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