T60 Enticing Urban Youth to the Geosciences

Sunday, 1 November 2015
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 324

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES TO ATTRACT UNDERSERVED, INNER CITY YOUTH TO THE GEOSCIENCES
  Alec Gates, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
  265519 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  USING A PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM MODEL AND FIELD-BASED EXPERIENCES TO CREATE A NETWORK OF URBAN YOUTH ENGAGED IN THE GEOSCIENCES: PROJECT METALS
  Lisa White, Berkeley, CA and Laura F. Serpa, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Diane F. Maygarden, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
  270491 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  AN APPROACH FOR DISCOVERING AND INSPIRING FUTURE GEOSCIENTISTS IN URBAN SETTINGS AND BEYOND
  Oludurotimi Adetunji, Brown University, Providence, RI and Roger Levine, Redwood City, CA
  267661 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  FROM RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: STEERING URBAN YOUTH INTO GEOSCIENCE
  Philip J. Stokes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Karl W. Flessa, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Roger Levine, Redwood City, CA and Alec Gates, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ and Floyd Gray, United States Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ
  269144 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  ATTRACTING AFRICAN AND HISPANIC AMERICANS AT HIGH-PERFORMING HIGH SCHOOLS TO GEOSCIENCE
  Kirk Barrett, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Riverdale, NY and Kevin Moore, Somerset, NJ
  265290 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  FIELD AND LAB PRACTICUM PROVIDES TOOLS TO INSPIRE GEOSCIENCE CLASSROOM LEARNING
  Denton S. Ebel, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Denton S. Ebel, Columbia University, Palisades, NY and Denton S. Ebel, City University of New York, New York, NY and Rosamond J. Kinzler, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and George E. Harlow, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and James D. Webster, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New York, NY and Jocelyn A. Sessa, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Patricia A. Nadeau, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New York, NY and Gokce Ustunisik, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
  269642 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:05 PM
  GEOSCIENCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
  Elizabeth Nagy, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
  269740 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:35 PM
  EXPLORING THE SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS WITH AN UPWARD BOUND COHORT FROM SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES: ANATOMY OF AN UN-NATURAL DISASTER
  R. Brown West, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA
  269830 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  “URBAN FOSSILS”: HALF-SERIOUS REFLECTIONS ON FOSSILIZATION PROCESSES
  Francesca Lozar, University of Torino, Torino and Massimo Delfino, University of Torino, Torino and Massimo Delfino, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona and Francesca Cirilli, Torino and Marco Giardino, University of Torino, Torino
  264106 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:20 PM
  LAB FIRST: TEACHING CONCEPTS IN GEOSCIENCES BY LEADING WITH AN ENGAGING LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
  Daniel P. Childers, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA and Christopher N. Etherington, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
  268824 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:35 PM
  LESSONS LEARNED IN THIRTEEN YEARS OF TEACHING ONLINE
  Adrianne Leinbach, Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC and Gretchen L. Miller, Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC and Stephanie L. Rollins, Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC
  269471 (Technical Sessions)