T93 Cross-Border Community Engagement Using Geoscience Research, Education, and Outreach

Monday, 23 October 2017
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 613/614

CROSS-COUNTRY ENGAGEMENT IN HYDROGEOLOGY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: EXPERIENCES IN CHINA AND USA

Paper number: T93-2
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 8:05 AM – 8:25 AM

Authors

  • Hongbin Zhan Presenting Author
    Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Abstract

In the past more than 15 years, the author has regularly traveled to China during the summer semester to engage in extensive research and educational activities in hydrological and environmental sciences, including delivering short courses, co-advising graduate students and postdocs, developing joined research and educational proposals and research publications, and leading and participating in field applications of hydrogeological and environmental related projects. The rapid economic development of China over the past two decades has pumped enormous funding resources into R&D, which help Chinese scholars advance their academic careers substantially. However, great difficulties have been encountered and big lessons have been learnt during such a rapid advancement period. Innovative ideas have also been proposed and new discoveries have been reported in an unprecedented pace. The author will share his first-hand experience and use examples to compare the research and educational approaches used by scholars and administrators from China and USA and to analyze the cultural and socioeconomic driving forces for the differences of such approaches used in these two countries. The lessons learnt from such a comparison will be beneficial to other countries as well.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-301857

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