201 Geoscience and Society: Action and Interdisciplinary Engagement on Local and Global Scales

Wednesday, 13 October 2021
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Oregon Ballroom 202/203/204 (Hybrid Room)

EDUCATION FOR ACTIVE AND ENGAGED GEOSCIENCE

Paper number: 201-6
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 8:58 AM – 9:10 AM

Authors

Abstract

This talk lays out emerging challenges and opportunities for active and engaged geoscience and describes how educators understand and address them. I first address new movements in geoscience for public wellbeing and geoscience as part of highly interdisciplinary practice. I show how educators like myself see crucial relationships between humanitarian ends and interdisciplinary means, and discuss how we design curricula in response to this vision of contemporary geoscience. Referencing the Humanitarian Science and Engineering Program at the Colorado School of Mines, I frame a vision for a future of education that supports active and engaged geoscientists by helping them build the skills they will need to take on this important work.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 53, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2021AM-368515

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