Transcript Summary of Threaded Discussion II: What

Understanding Deep Earth
Thursday February 18
Summary of Threaded
Discussion II: What Educational
Opportunities are Afforded by
Study of Deep Earth
Compiled by: D. Mogk
Deep Earth Teaching
Opportunities
 A compilation of input from the
threaded discussion
First step towards organizing
working groups;
Identify kindred spirits
Look for opportunities to integrate
across disciplines
Data! EarthScope, IRIS, HVO,
EarthChem/PetDB, Anna Courtier
Deep Earth Teaching
Opportunities
Mineral Physics
 Properties and processes of minerals at depth, Glenn
Richard, Pam Burnley, Ben Edwards
 Demo to show gravity changes, Kanani Lee
 Integrating sub-disciplines, Wendy Panero, Laura
Wetzel, Anna Courtier
 Phase Transitions/Discontinuities; Ann Courtier
Deep Earth Teaching
Opportunities

Seismology
 EarthScope/Iris data; John Taber, Vince Cronin
 Tutorials on geophysical data, data products (receiver
functions, shear wave splitting…)
 Tomograms—what are they, how do you make them,
how to interpret? Ray Russo, Brennan Jordan
 Quantitative exercises, Anna Courtier, Catherine
Cooper, Gene Humphreys
 Computational exercises, Mike Brudzinski
 Geodynamic Modeling, Gene Humphreys
Deep Earth Teaching
Opportunities

Analytical Methods
 Instruments used to study deep Earth, synchrotron,
multi-anvil; Glenn Richard, Dave Mogk, Kanani Lee?
Deep Earth Teaching
Opportunities

Petrology/Geochemistry
 Xenoliths—EarthChem database, Ben Edwards, Dave
Mogk
 Scientific debates (plumes), Brennan Jordan
 Crust/mantle evolution, connections; Catherine
Cooper, Dave Mogk
 Isotopic tracers, Yue Cai
 Earth as a dynamic system, Eric Christiansen
 Plate boundaries, Suzanne Baldwin
 MELTS, Dave Mogk
 Modeling layered Earth (computer sim) Ben Edwards
 Sample collections? Ben Edwards, Dave Mogk
Deep Earth Teaching
Opportunities
Cool Ideas
 Teacher preparation, Barbara Graham
 GIS, Barbara Graham, Declan DePaor?
 Deep Earth to demonstrate nature of Science, Vicki
Hansen, Suzanne Baldwin
 Intro, non-majors; Vince Cronin, Anna Courtier, Vicki
Hansen, Barbara Graham, Pam Burnley, Laura
Wetzel, BenEdwards
 Deep Earth and GeoHazards, Glenn Richard
Deep Earth Teaching
Opportunities
End of Day
 Everyone will start to prepare an “ActivitySheet” that
will be the start of your new teaching activity.
 We will introduce the SERC Content Management
System for you to upload your title and a brief
description of your activity
 Teaching activities may take many forms;
 in most cases you can simply upload activity files (Word,
PDF, JPEG, Excel…) needed to do the exercise.
 In some cases, we can provide new web-authoring space
 Activity is broadly defined
 Laboratory exercise, problem set, “Hot Topic” with
literature, Visualization collection with annotation, class
demonstration or experiment….