Education

Geoscience Data Puzzles

PI(s):

Kim A. Kastens

We think that learning from data is an inherently rewarding activity, and a habit of mind that is ke

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Geoscience Data Puzzles

Human/Environment Interactions in the State Science Education Standards

PI(s):

Kim A. Kastens

PI(s):

Margie Turrin

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http://www.nagt.org/files/nagt/jge/abstracts/kastensv54p422.pdf

Planning Land Use with Students (P.L.U.S.)

PI(s):

Margie Turrin

Students often wonder how local planning issues can be of concern to them. They don't own property, they don't pay property taxes, most don't yet vote...isn't this someone elses issue? The truth is this issue is very much connected to young people. The P.L.U.S. program is designed to show students why, and how to take advantage of this connection to offer their input. Students work in teams with students from other schools in their community to examine important land planning questions.

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Planning Land Use with Students (PLUS)

A Day in the Life of the Hudson River: Snapshot Day

PI(s):

Margie Turrin

In this annual fall event school groups all along the Hudson River estuary go down to the river's edge to collect scientific information and share it to creat

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A Day in the Life of the Hudson River:Snapshot Day

Where Are We?

PI(s):

Kim A. Kastens

Support website for Where Are We? map skills software developed by Kim Kastens, a tool to help visualize maps.

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Where Are We?

EarthView Explorer

PI(s):

Raymond N. Sambrotto

PI(s):

O. Roger Anderson

EarthView Explorer computer software was designed as supplemental material for teaching and learning in the Earth Sciences for students in grades 6-12.

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EarthView Explorer

Science Education with Trees and Canoes

May 20, 2011

A flock of young researchers from New York City, Singapore and the Netherlands are testing their skills in the field near Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory this weekend -- canoeing on Sparkill Creek to take water samples, counting forest species in Tallman Mountain State Park and analyzing soil chemistry.
PhD Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences Rated Best Overall

September 30, 2010

We are proud to announce that in the new rankings of 140 Earth Science Ph.D. programs by the National Research Council (NRC), our program is ranked at the very top!
Earth Science Made Easier

August 11, 2009

Instead of an ice-covered South Pole, picture sub-tropical temperatures and flowering plants. That’s what parts of Antarctica looked like 85 million years ago. How long ago was that? If you’re drawing a blank you’re not alone.

Thinking on geologic time scales does not come easily for many people, and that’s a challenge in teaching earth science, says Lamont-Doherty oceanographer Kim Kastens, in a recent cover story in EOS, a weekly newspaper published by the American Geophysical Union.
Study Shows Lack of National Consensus on Teaching K-12 Students about Human-Environmental Impacts

June 28, 2006

The destruction caused by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and human activities such as mountaintop removal mining are powerful examples of how the environment and society are tightly interwoven. But to what extent do, or should, state science curricula in the U.S. seek to investigate or influence the nature of this interaction?
Making the Grade

June 22, 2006

Mikah McCabe wanted "some serious research experience" on global warming or climate change. Hagar ElBishlawi wanted to work in a program affiliated with The Earth Institute. Michael Silberman wanted to work at Lamont because the people there work on the "interesting and important problems."

Each of the undergraduate interns welcomed by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory this summer may have had their own reason for applying, but they all have one thing in common: they are some of the best and brightest.