News & Announcements
- Traveling Workshops Program and Earth Educators' Rendezvous: Updates, Opportunities, and Upcoming Deadlines
- Announcing Field Camp Scholarship Winners
- NAGT Seeks Volunteers: In the Trenches Editor-in-Chief, Diversity and Donor Committees, Rendezvous Travel Challenge
- Honor your Colleagues and your Students by Nominating them for NAGT's Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Award and Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
- Make Your Voice Heard in NAGT: Please Provide Feedback on Your Experiences with Teach the Earth
- AGI Partners with NautilusThink to Launch New Publication
- AGU Hosts Two May Global Environmental Change Centennial Webinars
- Apply for an AGU Science Days Grant
- AGI Partners with the Lyda hill Foundation on the AAAS If/Then Ambassadors Program to Engage Women in STEM
- AAG 2019 Annual Meeting Videos Now Available: Opening Session and Eric Holder Keynote
- SENCER Institute Updates
Upcoming Webinars and Workshops
- NGSS Webinar: "Hands-on Learning About the Atmosphere in the New NGSS-Aligned GLOBE Weather" May 23
- MATLAB Workshop: "Teaching Computational Thinking Skills with MATLAB" October 20-22
- Project EDDIE Workshop: "Module Development Workshop" October 27-30
- Field Safety Workshop: "Focusing the Lens on Field Safety" November 7-8
Deadlines
- Spring Deadlines Associated with the 2019 Earth Educators' Rendezvous
- NAGT Award Nominations for Outstanding Earth Science Teacher are due June 15
- Traveling Workshop Application Deadline is June 15
- Career Hub: Ongoing
- Register by May 15 for AbSciCon 2019
- Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 Proposal Submissions are due May 22
Section and Division Highlights
NAGT Career Hub
Rock and Mineral Exchange
1. Traveling Workshops Program and Earth Educators' Rendezvous: Updates, Opportunities, and Upcoming Deadlines
Traveling Workshops Program (TWP)
- The TWP brings environmental, sustainability, and geoscience education leaders right to your campus, regional, or national event. In April, leaders from the Traveling Workshops Program (TWP) convened a highly successful workshop on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Earth and Environmental Sciences, focused on supporting the success of all students. Workshop sessions addressed the diversity of undergraduate student populations, evaluating and strengthening program design, and incorporating inclusive and equitable teaching practices. If you interested in addressing these or other topics in your department, program, or course, we invite you to apply to host a Traveling Workshop sponsored by NAGT. Application deadlines are June 15, 2019 for Fall/Winter workshops and October 15, 2019 for Spring/Summer workshops.
Earth Educators' Rendezvous Updates
- Have you secured your spot at the 2019 Earth Educators' Rendezvous in Nashville? The Standard registration deadline is July 4, and as an NAGT member, you get a $100 registration discount!
- Check out this year's workshops, mini-workshops, roundtables, plenaries, and more on the program and contributed program. Register to reserve a spot in the quickly-filling morning workshops, and learn about a recently funded grant that helps support participants in three morning workshops that focus on incorporating active learning into the classroom.
- Still interested in presenting a poster or share-a-thon presentation? You can still submit a late abstract by May 15.
- Attend the Rendezvous in style, and reserve your t-shirt by the June 14 deadline! This year's shirt shows the topography and rivers of Nashville metropolitan area, with the Rendezvous logo marking the location of Nashville. Check them out and pre-order yours today.
- Lodging options at Rendezvous are filling up quickly. Be sure to book your lodging soon. Check out Travel and Accommodations here.
- Interested in sponsoring the Rendezvous? Rendezvous offers four sponsorship levels. Please take a look and see which level best fits your institution or organization. We are committed to ensuring that all Rendezvous participants and NAGT members are aware of the generosity of our supporters. If have any questions about Sponsorship, or if you wish to simply make a Donation to help defray the costs of Rendezvous, please contact csmith3@carleton.edu.
- We are already planning 2020 Rendezvous! f you're interested in hosting, or if you have a suggested venue, please submit your interest here! Hosting the Rendezvous is a great way to showcase your department, institution, and your geographical region. The Rendezvous events bring the nation's leading Earth Educators to your school and opens up opportunities for your colleagues to participate.
2. Announcing Field Camp Scholarship Winners
Each year, NAGT makes several $750 awards to undergraduate students to facilitate their study of field geoscience, made possible by donations to the NAGT Field Camp Scholarship Fund. These awards, previously given to students who attend a traditional summer field camp, are now available for students attending field-based courses at any time of year. The intent of the awards is to support students' participation in intensive field courses in any aspect of geoscience (including geophysics, soil science, hydrology, etc.) that focuses on students practicing skills of field observation, data collection, analysis and synthesis. Awardees are selected based on the importance of the field experience in meeting their educational and career goals, the quality of the field aspects of the course, and the importance of the financial award in allowing them to participate in the program. In addition, the committee endeavors to select awardees that expand the diversity of people studying geosciences in the field and a collaboration with the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) funds two additional awards specifically for women.
Please join us in extending congratulations to this year's scholarship winners:
Alejandra Angulo (California State University, Fullerton); Judith Avila (California State University, Fullerton); Claudia Banks (University of Florida); Maya Bradford (Emory University); Lisa Duong (Georgia State University); Elizabeth Evenocheck (Winona State University); Lynnea Jackson (Michigan State University); Christopher Jones (Oklahoma State University); Ann Klyce (Appalachian State University); Sarah Lapinski(Oregon State University); Emily Loucks (Penn State University); Caitlin Noseworthy (Saint Norbert College); Jocelyn Reahl (Wellesley College); Emma Sevier (University of Puget Sound); Mary Sorensen (SUNY Oswego); Cassidy Stegner (Montana State University); Jennifer Stephens (Austin Peay State University); Zachery Stooksbury (University of Tennessee: Knoxville).
NAGT's Field Camp Scholarship program is quite competitive. There were numerous deserving and inspiring candidates, and we wished we could provide funding to all. NAGT is proud to support these students' educational goals, career aspirations, and professional development. We are also very grateful for our members' continued support of the future generation of geoscience professionals. Please keep the Field Camp Scholarship Fund in mind if you wish to donate to help fund even more students next year.
3. NAGT Seeks Volunteers: In the Trenches Editor-in-Chief, Diversity and Donor Committees, Rendezvous Travel Challenge
Apply to be In the Trenches Editor-in-Chief
Join the NAGT Diversity and Donor Committees
Are you or someone you know interested in getting further involved in NAGT? The Diversity Committee and Donor Development Initiative Committee seek nominations for new committee members.
The Diversity Committee promotes the development of a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive geoscience education committee and is looking first within NAGT and its programs. Learn more about this committee and its current members.
The Donor Development committee guides the fundraising and development operations of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Learn more about this committee and its current members.
If you are interested or would like to nominate someone to serve on either committee, please use this nomination form. Self-nominations are welcome.
Rendezvous Travel Challenge Seeking Volunteers
Rendezvous is a fabulous learning opportunity for Earth Educators of all types. However, the resources supporting participation are not evenly distributed around our community. Last year NAGT members successfully raised more than $7,000 to support travel stipends for participants in need for the Rendezvous this year. We are currently seeking volunteers to help lead a similar challenge. If you are interested in helping organize this year's drive or in contributing to the challenge grant fund, please contact Heather Macdonald (rhmacd@wm.edu).
4. Honor your Colleagues and your Students by Nominating them for NAGT's Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Award and Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
- NAGT's Outstanding Earth Science Teacher (OEST) awards are given for exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the Earth Sciences at the pre-college level. Any teacher or other K-12 educator who covers a significant amount of Earth science content with their students is eligible. Ten national finalists are selected, one from each NAGT regional section. Some sections also recognize state winners. Individuals may apply for themselves or nominate a colleague for the award. The selection of award winners is conducted at the Section level, and each Section sets its own deadline for nomination. A listing of the deadlines and contact people for each Section is listed on the award website. Check out your Section's deadline and submit your nominations via the website. And remember, you can also nominate yourself!
- NAGT's Outstanding Teaching Assistant awards Do you know an outstanding teaching assistant? Thanks to a generous gift from Thomas Hendrix, Grand Valley State University and NAGT member donors, NAGT is able to recognize outstanding teaching assistants in geoscience education with up to 30 awards annually. Both undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants are eligible for the award. The deadline to nominate students is June 15.
5. Make Your Voice Heard in NAGT: Please Provide Feedback on Your Experiences with Teach the Earth
Have you ever searched Teach the Earth (or elsewhere online) for high quality, ready-to-go activities or topics that are suitable for your geoscience course, only to come up empty handed? This is your chance to tell the Teach the Earth website committee all about it! We are interested in learning more about the needs of Teach the Earth users and want to identify gaps in the geoscience content housed in the Teach the Earth portal. You can help us do that by contributing your ideas to our discussion. If you aren't sure where to start, consider these questions: What educational resources (supporting your courses or teaching) have you searched for online but haven't been able to find? What new Earth education topics and resources would you like to see incorporated into Teach the Earth in the future?
6. AGI Partners with NautilusThink to Launch New Publication
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) has decided to end its current role as publisher of EARTH Magazine, concluding with the April 2019 digital issue. AGI has arranged to have the scope and mission of EARTH live on with Nautilus, a growing, modern science magazine that is deeply respected for its objective, unbiased, high-quality science journalism. "In this changing world of publishing, we are excited to continue to ensure that quality geoscience journalism is available in the public discourse, and Nautilus is exactly the type of publication that our loyal readers will love for its narrative style, journalistic excellence, and well-researched science," says AGI Executive Director Allyson Anderson Book.
"Teaming with AGI to continue the legacy of EARTH Magazine is enabling Nautilus to launch its Earth channel in its online publication platform, where leading stories about our planet will have a premier home," explains Nautilus Publisher John Steele. And through the new Nautilus EARTH channel, the coverage of Earth, energy, and the environment that was loved and expected from EARTH Magazine will continue.
Current EARTH subscribers will have the balance of their subscriptions fulfilled by Nautilus, so they will continue to enjoy the broad spectrum of science coverage while still getting their healthy dose of coverage of the Earth, energy, and the environment. EARTH subscribers will start receiving their new Nautilus benefits beginning with the May 2019 issue.
In addition, AGI will keep the existing EARTH Magazine website open to all current subscribers so they can continue to access the archive of articles, as well as download issues from the archive back to the inaugural EARTH Magazine issue in September 2008.
AGI thanks its subscribers for their loyal readership and is excited for the future collaboration between AGI and Nautilus as we work together to continue EARTH's scope and mission within Nautilus.
7. AGU Hosts Two May Global Environmental Change Centennial Webinars
The Global Environmental Change (GEC) Section has two great Centennial webinars coming up in May:
Drought and Water Security in the West led by Jonathan Overpeck
May 9, 2019 1-2pm ET
Dr. Overpeck is Samuel A. Graham Dean and William B. Stapp Collegiate Professor of Environmental Education School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan. He was elected AGU Fellow in 2015.
Climate Extremes in Present and Future: How can we Avoid the Worst? led by Sonia Seneviratne
May 21, 2019 11-noon ET
Dr. Seneviratne is a Professor in the Institute for Atmosphere and Climate Science at ETH Zurich. She was elected AGU Fellow in 2013.
For more information on the GEC Section, click here.
8. Apply for an AGU Science Days Grant
AGU's Centennial is an exciting time to celebrate Earth and space science in your community! AGU is offering special, targeted Celebrate 100 grants to help you organize events around important science days. These grants will be awarded on a rolling basis, and will be given in the form of reimbursements to cover such expenses such as permits, food and beverage, equipment rentals, advertising, giveaways, etc. Recipients will also be eligible to receive free Centennial branded materials, including banners, posters and more to support their event. Apply for a Celebrate 100 Science Day grant, reimbursable up to $1,000 for your event! Apply here.
9. AGI Partners with the Lyda Hill Foundation on the AAAS If/Then Ambassadors Program to Engage Women in STEM
AGI has partnered with the Lyda Hill Foundation as part of their IF/THEN initiative. This is a wonderful engagement where LHF has partnered with a range of organizations to engage women at all stages in their careers, as well as to inspire the next generation of female scientists. To learn more about IF/THEN click here.
10. AAG 2019 Annual Meeting Videos Now Available: Opening Session and Eric Holder Keynote
In case you missed them (or wish to revisit!), the videos from Eric Holder's keynote address as well as the Opening Session and Presidential Plenary at the 2019 AAG Annual Meeting are now available.
11. SENCER Institute Updates
- SENCER Summer Institute 2019, August 1 through 4 at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- Save the Date: S4HE Values Based Academic Leadership Institute, October 18-19, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
- SENCER Programs for K12 Students and Faculty, from the Mid-Atlantic Center for Innovation, including report from Kathy Brown (Rider U) and Jessica Monaghan (New Brunswick School District) on their efforts to support teachers in implementing NGSS standards through a SENCER approach.
NGSS Webinar
Hands-on Learning About the Atmosphere in the New NGSS-Aligned GLOBE Weather
May 23, 2019
TIME: 1:00 PM Pacific | 2:00 PM Mountain | 3:00 PM Central | 4:00 PM Eastern
Registration deadline is May 21, 2019. To register, click here. GLOBE Weather is a new five-week NGSS-aligned instructional unit for middle school students that includes student investigations of weather phenomena through activities, demonstrations, data collection, and data analysis. This webinar will provide an opportunity to review the scope of the curriculum, sample hands-on activities and data collection protocols, and engage in a discussion about implementation strategies.
Presenters: Becca Hatheway, Melissa Rummel, John Ristvey, Emily Snode-Brenneman
MATLAB Workshop
Teaching Computational Thinking Skills with MATLAB
October 20-22, 2019 at Carleton College, Northfield, MN
For students to succeed at research and careers in STEM, they require quantitative thinking and computational skills. This workshop brings together faculty who teach computation in their courses and are interested in strengthening and developing their teaching skills and MATLAB based materials. Working in sessions and 1-on-1 with faculty peers and MATLAB experts, participants will discuss teaching strategies, tools, and resources. Participants will spend time during the workshop evolving and improving their course materials based on give-and-take with and colleagues. Because the workshop includes educators from multiple disciplines – from Biology to Engineering to Math – the workshop enables sharing of ideas and best practices across fields of study.
The workshop sessions include a keynote speaker, presentations of effective lessons and teaching methods, panel discussions, and working in groups. Application deadline: Friday, June 14, 2019.Project EDDIE Workshop on Module Development, October 27-30
EDDIE Module Development Workshop 2019
October 27-30, 2019 at Carleton College, Northfield, MN
This 3-day face-to-face workshop will focus on the design and development of teaching modules that address the community identified needs and barriers associated with environmental content and quantitative reasoning. Module topics will span topics such as ecology, limnology, geology, hydrology, and environmental sciences. Each module will focus on specific scientific concepts and address a set of quantitative reasoning or analytical skills, using high-frequency datasets that are publicly available online. Workshop attendees will include faculty members from different disciplines and institution types and will be selected through an application process. Applications will be available in June.
Field Safety Workshop: "Focusing the Lens on Field Safety" November 7-8
The National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) and ExxonMobil have been leading the way in improving field safety protocol, which has resulted in the current standards for field safety as documented in the text Field Safety in Uncontrolled Environments: a process-based guidebook as well as a growing number of Field Safety Leadership courses. However, one of the components that is underdeveloped in the current standards are protocols for field-camp-like scenarios where students are spread out over a wide area day after day.
The Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa will be hosting a workshop titled Focusing the lens on field safety: a workshop for field trip leaders on November 7-8, 2019. Workshop leaders will include: Dr. Kurt Burmeister (University of the Pacific) – Executive Secretary, NAGT-USGS Cooperative Field Training Program, co-Director Wasatch-Uinta Field Camp, Dr. Kevin Bohacs (formerly ExxonMobil) – co-author of Field Safety in Uncontrolled Environments: a process-based guidebook, Dr. Greer Barriault (ExxonMobil) – Global Field Safety Coordinator, Dr. Emily Finzel (University of Iowa) – Field Camp Coordinator
This 2-day workshop will include traditional Field Safety Leadership training as well as focused discussions with the goal of developing field safety protocols for dispersed-group field trips.
The workshop is intended for anyone who coordinates field-based learning experiences. There is limited financial assistance available to interested participants. Please contact Emily Finzel (emily-finzel@uiowa.edu) for more information.
To register for the field safety workshop, click here.
Separate from, but following the workshop, a 2-day National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) Wilderness First Aid course will be offered on November 9-10, 2019. This course is designed for all experience levels, and especially for those who recreate outdoors where EMS response can be expected in a timely manner. For more details, see the NOLS website.
To register for the NOLS course, click here.
1. Spring Deadlines Associated with the 2019 Earth Educators' Rendezvous
- If you haven't yet secured your spot at the 2019 Earth Educators' Rendezvous, the Standard registration deadline is July 4.
- If you're interested in presenting a poster or share-a-thon presentation, you can still submit a late abstract by May 15.
- Attend the Rendezvous in style, and pre-order your t-shirt by the June 14 deadline!
2. NAGT Award Nominations for Outstanding Earth Science Teacher and Outstanding Teaching Assistant are due June 15
Outstanding Earth Science Teacher (OEST) awards are given for "exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the Earth Sciences at the pre-college level." Any teacher or other K-12 educator who covers a significant amount of earth science content with their students is eligible. Ten national finalists are selected, one from each NAGT regional section. Some sections also recognize state winners. Individuals may apply themselves or nominate a colleague for the award. To nominate a teacher for this award, please complete the online nomination form by June 15. You can find information on which section you live in by checking out the Sections Page.
Do you know an outstanding teaching assistant? Thanks to a generous gift from Thomas Hendrix, Grand Valley State University and NAGT member donors, NAGT is able to recognize outstanding teaching assitants in geoscience education with up to 30 Outstanding Teaching Assistant awards annually. Both undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants are eligible for the award. The deadline to nominate students is June 15.
3. Traveling Workshop Application Deadline is June 15
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. We invite you to apply to host a Traveling Workshop sponsored by NAGT. Application deadlines are June 15, 2019 for Fall/Winter workshops and October 15, 2019 for Spring/Summer workshops.
4. 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 web page, 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.
5. Register by May 15 for AbSciCon 2019
AbSciCon 2019 is the next in a series of conferences organized by the astrobiology community. AbSciCon will be held on 24-28 June 2019 in Bellevue, Washington. The theme for AbSciCon 2019 is "Understanding and Enabling the Search for Life on Worlds Near and Far." Register here by May 15.
6. Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 Submissions Proposal Submissions Due May 22
The Ocean Sciences Meeting will be held February 16-21 in San Diego, CA. Propose an Ocean Sciences Meeting Session or Tutorial Talk. Ideas with strong interdisciplinary themes that address new and emerging areas of research are particularly encouraged. Click here for more information or to submit a proposal.
GEO2YC Division
- GEO2YC would like to invite everyone to a social held at this year's Earth Educators' Rendezvous. When you're planning your travel, plan on joining us on Wednesday night (July 17) from 7 to 9pm.
- The GEO2YC Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award committee is always looking for nominations of exceptional adjuncts. If you have a great adjunct instructor teaching geoscience at a two-year college, please nominate them through this link. Self nominations are always welcome!
- Foundations Newsletter submissions are due June 1 and September 6. Please submit your stories, experiences, experiments, photos and awards to the editor sukismaglik@gmail.com anytime prior to each deadline.
Pacific Northwest Section
- The Okanagan College Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science is hosting the 2019 National Association of Geoscience Teachers, PNW Section Annual Conference and Field Tour in Penticton British Columbia, Canada. The meeting will be held June 25-27, 2019. Visit the conference website here for more information.
- The Pacific Northwest Section is seeking nominations for:
- 2nd Vice President: Assists VP in organizing annual conference. Becomes Vice President when Vice President becomes President.
- Website Editor: Updates section website (at national), uploads latest newsletters and links and coordinates with national (SERC) where the site is hosted.
- State Councilors: One (1) each for ID, OR, and BC; provides newsletter editor with timely news in the section.
- Submit your nominations by June 15 to: Frank Hladky, fhladkys@gmail.com
- The Pacific Northwest Section of NAGT will be hosting a "meet & greet" table at the Cordilleran Section meeting of the GSA, May 15-17 in Portland. If you plan on attending GSA Portland, please stop by the table and say hello. We'll also have informal get together during the Thursday afternoon poster & event session (4-6 pm). Come on by and shoot the breeze!
Eastern Section
A team of geoscience instructors from Virginia are coming together to develop an OER text for Historical Geology and we need your input! We are seeking your perspective on both general content and format of your ideal historical text and invite you to participate in one of two webinars we are offering, as well as a roundtable session at this summer's Earth Educators' Rendezvous. Even if you can't participate in a webinar, we still want to hear your thoughts. Please take a few minutes to complete the Google form here.
Webinars will be held: Wednesday, May 22 at noon ET/9a PT, Thursday, May 23 at 3p ET/noon PT. (We only ask that folks attend one of these; we're just offering 2 times in hope of being available when more people are available.) **Note: login details will be sent to you if you reply 'YES' to attending a webinar on the form above. Please email (cbentley@nvcc.edu) with any questions.
The Eastern Section will hold our annual meeting and awards dinner in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. We have planned a full range of activities, including the following choices:
- Exploring the geology of Harpers Ferry
- A paddle along the Potomac River below Harpers Ferry
- Field trip along Corridor H between Wardensville, WV and Moorefield, WV to look at the folds and faults of the Valley and Ridge Province
- Field Trip with Dan Doctor of the USGS to learn about the karst topography of the Shenandoah Valley
The awards dinner on Saturday evening will include a keynote address from Karen Kortz. Wendy Bohon from IRIS, kicks off the meeting on Thursday evening. There is still time to register, but the deadline is approaching! Follow this link to print and mail in your registration.
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 Faculty Position, Department of Geology, University at Buffalo
The Geology Department at University at Buffalo seeks an instructional faculty member who is eager to play a key role in Department programs starting August 2019. The successful candidate will primarily teach courses related to sedimentary geology in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum.
Available Samples
Retired Amateur Geologist Seeks Donation Recipient for Valuable Rock and Minerals Collection
Dr. Phillip Ellis Jackson Ph.D. (University of Chicago, Retired; Amateur Geologist) is requesting applications from Colleges and University Geology Departments across the U.S. to become the recipient of his extensive private rock and minerals collection. This collection consists of over 1000 samples (to date) of geographically-diverse rocks and minerals from the continental United States. The recipient institution may wish to keep the entire collection intact, or select a smaller number of representative samples for each site to constitute the permanent collection. Any remaining materials could be utilized for classroom research or demonstrations (which might include their partial or full destruction), or made available to deserving faculty or students to utilize for their individual research or future teaching purposes. Read more about the collection here.
Contact Dr. Jackson directly for more information:
Phillip Ellis Jackson, Ph.D.pejackson@outlook.com
(972) 816-6371
Ophiolite, Tertiary sedimentary, misc metamorphic
Desired Specimens
Precambrian chert. Stromatolites.
Are you looking for new specimens for your collection? Do you have extra samples to share with colleagues? Post in the Rock and Mineral Exchange.
