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In This Issue
News & Announcements
- Nominations now open for NAGT Leadership Roles
- Nominate Your Colleagues for Awards: Deadlines Approaching
- 2019 Earth Educators' Rendezvous Abstract Deadline is Tomorrow, March 13!
- Additional Rendezvous Deadlines
- Have you renewed your NAGT membership?
- New book from the InTeGrate project: Interdisciplinary Teaching About Earth and the Environment for a Sustainable Future
- Fall 2019 "Traveling Workshops Program" Application Deadline is March 15
- "Early Career Workshop" Celebrates 20 Years! Application Deadline is March 24
- "Preparing for an Academic Career Workshop" now part of Earth Educators' Rendezvous Workshop Selection
- New Issue of Journal of Geoscience Education
- JGE Theme Issue Call for Papers: Polar Education
- QUBES News and Activity
- AGI's Geoscience in Your State Fact Sheet Available
- AGU Fall Meeting 2019 Session Proposals Now Open
- Participate in Two Important Surveys
- NCAR Advanced Study Program for Graduate Students; Quantifying and Communicating Uncertainty in High-Impact Weather Prediction
- 2019 Education Research Symposia at Green Templeton College, Oxford University, UK, March 20 through 22
- American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting is April 3-7, Washington, D.C.
- SENCER Summer Institute 2019 - Save the Date - August 1-4, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- Articles of Interest
Upcoming Webinars and Workshops
- Fall 2019 Traveling Workshops
- Preparing for an Academic Career Workshop (at 2019 Rendezvous)
- Workshop: Project EDDIE: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data
- Upcoming InTeGrate Webinars to be Announced Soon
Deadlines
- Earth Educators' Rendezvous Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to March 13
- Early Career Faculty Workshop Application Deadline: March 24
- Additional Earth Educators' Rendezvous Deadlines
- Project EDDIE Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data Deadline: April 5
- AGU deadline to submit Union awards has been extended to April 15: Nominate a colleague, mentor, peer, or student here.
- Award Nominations Deadlines
- Foundations newsletter submissions are due June 1 and September 6
- GSA Abstracts Deadline: June 25
- NAGT Career Hub: Ongoing
Section and Division Highlights
Rock and Mineral Exchange
1. Nominations now open for NAGT Leadership Roles
NAGT National officer nominations needed! The time is now to help grow the NAGT organization. Click here to nominate. NAGT holds national officer elections annually, and the April 1 nomination deadline is fast approaching. We all know individuals who would make great officers, and we value the opinions of our members to place those individuals into leadership roles. Reminder that self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.
2. Award Nomination Deadlines
Awards provide an opportunity to recognize excellence among your colleagues. Take advantage of this opportunity, and nominate now. Award Nominations are due by the following deadlines:
- Miner and Shea: April 1
- Stout: April 15
- Outstanding TA: June 15
- Christman: Ongoing
- OEST Award: Ongoing See OEST site for individual deadlines.
3. 2019 Earth Educators' Rendezvous Abstract Deadline is Tomorrow, March 13!
Submit your abstract here. You will need to submit by Wednesday, March 13.
Register by the early bird deadline (May 1) for the best rates.
Rendezvous professional development opportunities abound, including workshops, oral and poster sessions, teaching demos, a share-a-thon, plenary talks, and working groups. Capitalize on experience from your colleagues at a variety of workshops, present and discuss your own findings, and network with others engaged in improving undergraduate Earth education!
Travel stipends are available, apply by April 7.
Other important deadlines are described below, including those for submitting applications for a Working Group, Review Camp, and NGSS Tagging Camp.
We're already planning Rendezvous 2020! If you're interested in hosting, or you have a suggested venue, please submit your interest here.
4. Other Rendezvous Deadlines
- Sunday, April 7
- Wednesday, May 1
5. Have you renewed your NAGT Membership?
- NAGT Members receive $100 off Earth Educators' Rendezvous registration
- NAGT Members also receive exclusive discounts on select Taylor and Francis titles
- Are you following NAGT on Facebook? Click here to follow and be the first to receive news and updates!
6. New Book from the InTeGrate Project: Interdisciplinary Teaching About Earth and the Environment for a Sustainable Future
Editors: David C. Gosselin, Anne E. Egger, and J. John Taber
A new book published by Springer Nature as part of the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences Book Series presents the outcomes of the InTeGrate project, a community effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues. The InTeGrate community is built around the shared goal of supporting interdisciplinary learning about Earth across the undergraduate curriculum, focusing on the grand challenges facing society and the important role that the geosciences lay in addressing these grand challenges. The chapters in this book explicitly illustrate the intimate relationship between geoscience and sustainability that is often opaque to students. The authors of these chapters are faculty members, administrators, program directors, and researchers from institutions across the country who have collectively envisioned, implemented, and evaluated effective change in their classrooms, programs, institutions, and beyond. This book provides guidance to anyone interested in implementing change – on scales ranging from a single course to an entire program – by infusing sustainability across the curriculum, broadening access to Earth and environmental sciences, and assessing the impacts of those changes.
Click here for more information or to order.
7. Fall 2019 Traveling Workshops Program Application Deadline is March 15
We invite you to host a Traveling Workshop sponsored by NAGT. The Traveling Workshops Program (TWP) brings environmental, sustainability, and geoscience education leaders right to your campus, regional, or national event. TWP features expertise from numerous NSF funded projects including On the Cutting Edge, InTeGrate, SAGE, and GeoNeeds, and is part of NAGT's integrated Workshop Program. The deadline to apply for Fall Traveling Workshops Program is March 15, 2019. Apply Here.
8. Early Career Workshop Celebrates 20 Years! Application Deadline is March 24
NAGT's Early Career Workshops provide a stimulating and resource-rich environment where participants can engage in topical sessions involving effective teaching strategies, course design, establishing a research program in a new setting, working with research students, and balancing professional and personal responsibilities. The Early Career Geoscience Faculty Workshop application deadline is March 24, 2019. Apply Here.
9. Preparing for an Academic Career Workshop now part of Earth Educators' Rendezvous Workshop Selection
This workshop is designed specifically for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and others who are interested in pursuing academic careers in the geosciences. Workshop leaders from a variety of institution types and career paths will provide guidance and information that will help participants to be stronger candidates for academic positions and to succeed in academic jobs. The workshop is part of Earth Educators' Rendezvous, where participants may engage in additional workshops, panels, and plenary sessions. To apply, visit the Earth Educators' Rendezvous website.
10. New Issue of Journal of Geoscience Education
Click here to view new issues of the Journal of Geoscience Education. Receive exclusive NAGT member discounts on select Taylor and Francis Titles. The full list of discounted topical books can be located using this NAGT member-only link.
11. JGE Theme Issue Call for Papers: Polar Education
The Journal of Geoscience Education is soliciting manuscripts for a special issue on polar education. The manuscript submission deadline is June 15. Click here for more information, including author instructions.
12. QUBES News and Activity
Visit QUBES for the latest news, blog, and activity. Subscribe to the newsletter here. You do not need a QUBES account to subscribe.
13. AGI's Geoscience in Your State Fact Sheet Available
The theme for this year's Earth Science Week (October 13 through 19) will be Geoscience is for Everyone. You can obtain a copy of your state's factsheet by visiting this link.
14. AGU Fall Meeting 2019 Session Proposals Now Open
AGU Fall Meeting 2019 Session Proposals are now open. As AGU marks its Centennial and returns to San Francisco, we welcome proposals from AGU's entire community. Submit now.
15. You are invited to participate in these important surveys:
- STEM Education Team at Yale's Poorvu Center is launching new survey study to investigate struggles with evidence-based teaching practices. Complete the survey here.
- Help the University of Nebraska Lincoln by completing a new atmospheric science community survey to assist with the involvement in and perception of education research by members of the atmospheric science community. Complete the survey here.
16. NCAR Advanced Study Program for Graduate Students; Quantifying and Communicating Uncertainty in High-Impact Weather Prediction
This summer opportunity is for graduate students interested in severe convective weather and risk assessment and communication. Applications are now open! In particular, they are looking for students with a background in atmospheric sciences (e.g., some former classwork such as undergraduate in meteorology) and graduate level students interested in predictability of high impact weather. They also seek students with similar background but graduate level coursework in 1) risk assessment and communication or 2) data science such as machine learning. Advanced Study Program for Graduate Students; Quantifying and Communicating Uncertainty in High-Impact Weather Prediction. Visit here for more information.
17. 2019 Education Research Symposia at Green Templeton College, Oxford University, UK
The 2019 Education Research Symposia at Green Templeton College, Oxford University, UK will be held March 20 through 22. Visit here for more information.
18. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting is April 3 through 7, Washington, D.C.
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19. SENCER Summer Institute 2019: Save the Date, August 1 through 4
The SENCER Summer Institute 2019 will be held August 1 through 4 at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. The Summer Institutes provide professional development and networking opportunities over the course of four days to formal an informal educators, administrators, students, and representatives of non-profits and agencies. Visit here for more information.
20. Articles of Interest
- New Science Advances article sheds light on fixed-ability beliefs
- Tracer project covered by Tomorrow's Professor
- Report from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Article on Change Agents in Higher Ed
21. Fall 2019 Traveling Workshops
We invite you to host a Traveling Workshop sponsored by NAGT. The Traveling Workshops Program (TWP) brings environmental, sustainability, and geoscience education leaders right to your campus, regional, or national event. TWP features expertise from numerous NSF funded projects including On the Cutting Edge, InTeGrate, SAGE, and GeoNeeds, and is part of NAGT's integrated Workshop Program. The deadline to apply for Fall Traveling Workshops Program is March 15, 2019. Apply Here.
22. Preparing for an Academic Career Workshop (at 2019 Rendezvous)
This workshop is designed specifically for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and others who are interested in pursuing academic careers in the geosciences. Workshop leaders from a variety of institution types and career paths will provide guidance and information that will help participants to be stronger candidates for academic positions and to succeed in academic jobs. The workshop is part of Earth Educators' Rendezvous, where participants may engage in additional workshops, panels, and plenary sessions. [link https://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2019/program/morning_workshops/w1/index.html 'To apply, visit the Earth Educators' Rendezvous website.']
23. Project EDDIE: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data Workshop
This workshop will be held at Carleton College in Northfield, MN from June 11 through 13. The workshop brings together faculty and instructors to build a community interested in understanding current best practices and strategies, as well as the continuing needs and barriers associated with teaching quantitative reasoning and teaching with large data sets. Apply here. Application deadline is April 5.
24. Upcoming InTeGrate Webinars to be Announced Soon
Visit the InTeGrate website to learn more.
25. Earth Educators' Rendezvous Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to March 13
26. Early Career Faculty Workshop Application Deadline is March 24
27. Other Earth Educators' Rendezvous Deadlines
- Hosting a working group application deadline: March 13
- Data Labs: Using Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI) Data to Engage Students in Oceanography afternoon workshop application due: March 31
- Marine Geology Using GEODE morning workshop application due: March 31
- Travel Stipend applications due: April 7
- Review Camp and NGSS Tagging Camp Applications due: May 1
- Late Poster/Share-a-Thon Submissions due: May 1
Learn more about the Rendezvous.
28. Project EDDIE Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data Deadline is April 5
29. AGU Deadline to submit nominations for Union Awards, Medals and Prizes been extended to April 15
Nominate a colleague, mentor, peer, or student here.
30. Award Nominations Deadlines:
- Miner and Shea: April 1
- Stout: April 15
- Outstanding TA: June 15
- Christman: Ongoing
- OEST: Ongoing Visit here for all OEST awards.
31. Foundations Newsletter submissions are due June 1 and September 6
Please submit your stories, experiences, experiments, photos, awards, etc. to the editor sukismaglik@gmail.com any time prior to each deadline. The next Foundations Newsletter submission deadline is Friday, June 1.
32. GSA Abstract Submission Deadline is June 25
The GSA Abstract submission deadline is June 25. Submit your Abstract here.
33. NAGT Career Hub - Ongoing
We welcome advertisements of geoscience education related job openings, postdoctoral positions, internships, assistantships, and undergraduate research opportunities that might be of interest to the wider NAGT community. Distribution of these postings include posting the ad on the NAGT Career Hub webpage, distribution via the NAGT Facebook page, inclusion in the monthly NAGTNews email newsletter to members. The cost of posting a job opening or a postdoctoral position to the Career Hub is $75 per month (multiple months can be purchased at one time). Payment must be received before these postings will be published. It is free to post an internship, assistantship, and undergraduate research opportunity to the Career Hub. You can use this form to submit a posting for the Career Hub.
Eastern Section
- The 2019 Eastern Section Meeting in Martinsburg, West Virginia will be on June 6-8, 2019, and will be hosted by Blue Ridge Community and Technical College.
Midcontinent Section
- The Midcontinent Section invites NAGT members to volunteer a few hours at the NAGT Booth at GSA-SC-NC-RM joint sectional meeting from Sunday March 24 to Wednesday March 27th in Manhattan, KS. The signup spreadsheet is available here. Click here for more information.
- Midcontinent NAGT is hosting a social at GSA-SC-NC-RM joint sectional meeting. Please Join us on Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. in The Antler room at Blue Moose Bar and Grill in Manhattan, KS An Evening with Midcontinent NAGT Members and Officers. All are welcome! For questions regarding the event, please contact Section president, Aida Farough (afarough@ksu.edu). If you or your organization is interested in sponsoring appetizers for the Social, please support us through this GoFundme campaign. and contact afarough@ksu.edu for sponsorship details.
Geoscience Education Research Division
- The GER division is sponsoring a Writing Retreat at this year's Earth Educators' Rendezvous in Nashville during the Monday through Wednesday morning workshop timeframe. The retreat is spearheaded by writing extraordinaire Dr. Peggy McNeal, Towson University, and will provide you with nine hours of dedicated writing time so you can make progress on whatever you are currently working on, be it a draft, data analysis, or grant proposal. This retreat is a new option for Rendezvous, so we are testing it as a Working Group. A limited number of slots are available, based upon room size, and we expect those who participate in the working group to attend all three morning sessions. If you are interested in joining the working group, please email Peggy at pmcneal@towson.edu by March 31. We will email participants in early April with instructions for how to join when you register for Rendezvous; please do not register for Rendezvous until we notify you.
- Did you miss the GER methods and theoretical frameworks session at GSA 2018? Just want to check out some of the notes? Many of the presentations have been graciously shared by the authors.
- The nomination period for the two GER awards has opened! Do you know of someone who deserves the Collaboration Award or Transformation Award?
- Are you interested in taking a leadership role in GER and want to learn more? This year, the GER division will be seeking nominations for a new Vice President, Treasurer and Graduate Student Liaison. If you are interested in one of these positions, please reach out to the person currently in that position with questions. The Graduate Student Liaison is a new position; please reach out to current President Katherine Ryker with questions about that position.
Geo2YC Division
- Submission deadline for the next Foundations issue is Friday, June 1. Email Editor Suki Smaglik at sukismaglik@gmail.com with your stories, experiences, experiments, photos and awards. Submit submissions prior to each Friday deadline: June 1 and September 6.
Do you have good news related to your geoscience education work that you would like to share with your NAGT Community? Would you like to call attention to a paper, presentation, or resource you developed or helped develop to share with your fellow Earth educators? Submit to NAGT's Community Kudos!
Instructional Assistant Professor, The University of Texas A&M
The Department of Geology and Geophysics at Texas A&M University invites applications for a full‐time non‐tenure track Instructional Assistant Professor.
Director, Weis Earth Science Museum
The Weis Earth Science Museum (WESM) is located in Menasha, WI at UW-Fox Valley, a campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Geosciences
The Department of Geosciences at Skidmore College invites applications for a one-year, full-time Visiting Assistant Professor to begin fall 2019.
Physical Science Faculty
The Division of Science, Engineering & Technology at Howard Community College (HCC) is seeking applicants for an outstanding full-time faculty position in the discipline of Historical Geology and Earth Science.
Need help getting the word out about your position opening, event, or field trip? Submit your posting to the NAGT Career Hub!
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