Standing Committee Meeting Report Education and Public Outreach
October 2004
IRIS Education and Outreach Committee meeting
Action Items
October 7-8 , 2004
New Mexico Tech
- Distinguished Lecture Series: Ellins to contact
U of Florida about hosting a speaker. All committee members charged
with submitting two suggestions for two star presenters and two
suitable venues.
- Discovery Channel or Nova-type video production.
Stein, Hubenthal and Kafka will begin to consider ideas on what
should be developed and how to pursue this. Group will set aside
half a day to work on this in a focused way at the next meeting
(prior to meeting).
- Aster and Taber will contact Glen Kreoger, Laura Wetzel, Bob
Butler and Aaron Velasco to request that they serve with an IRIS
staff member as the organizing committee for an Educational
Affiliates workshop to be held in conjunction with IRIS
annual workshop.
- Hubenthal will develop a one pager for EXCOM by early November
describing the idea behind the Education Affiliates program,
proposed workshop, and the value of having the workshop be part
of the IRIS annual workshop.
- Student Internship Program. Stein and Hubenthal
will work on expressing requirements in a way that doesn’t
dissuade students from applying, and develop strategies for advertising
it broadly.
- Hubenthal will move forward on organizing the intern orientation
at UC Santa Cruz.
- EarthScope E&O advisory committee. Ellins
will compile list of nominees or volunteers from last call to
the ErthScope community regarding participation in an EarthScope
E&O task force/working group and share this to the nominating
committee (Aster, Semken, Ellins, and Bill Holt).
- EarthScope Annual Workshop. Semken and Ellins
to develop short presentation “EduSpeak for Dummies” for
after dinner presentations on 3/30.
- Levy will spearhead the USArray newsletter that Bob Busby has
requested.
- Committee members should send Wald the URLs of animations,
movies, etc. for inclusion in a USGS database for
educators.
- Taber and Aster will write a letter of support for the UTIG/Huston-Tillotson
diversity initiative.
- Taber and Aster will write a letter of support for the Africa
Array Summer Research Program.
- IRIS will have One-Pager number
#7 out by AGU.
- Branding/Publications. Levy will visit JOI
to obtain copies of the ODP Greatest Hits Volumes 1
and 2to see if these publications could serve as a model for
a similar for IRIS publication to promote brand.
- IRIS/USGS potential collaboration. Both
the USGS and IRIS have Earth observation systems in the ground
and are working on five year plans. Taber will communicate
with Bob Ridky, the USGS Education Coordinator; to explore how
both organizations five year plans can support each other’s
E&O efforts.