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Information - ES2 ECORD Teachers Workshop: Exploring the Ocean Floor with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
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Event Information |
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The Earth’s oceans are important regions of research exploration because they play key roles in driving the Earth’s climate, are very geologically active and preserve sedimentary and rock records that provide a detailed climate and tectonic history of the Earth over the last 200 million years. The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is the only international research program that provides scientists from all over the world with long, continuous sediment and rock records to study the Earth’s history in these very important regions. The European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) is the European branch of IODP, which also includes scientists from the USA, Japan, the People’s Republic of China and South Korea.
The goal of the ECORD workshop is to provide teachers with information and material that can be used to enhance science classes for school students and to illustrate the excitement found in ocean research drilling.
Scientific talks designed specifically for school teachers by leading IODP scientists will highlight selected ocean drilling research topics important for humanity such as natural resources (gas hydrates), natural hazards (earthquakes, volcanic activity, undersea landslides and tsunamis) and natural climate variation (growth and decline of ice sheets and sea level change).
The ECORD teacher’s workshop will also provide teachers with background speeches that introduce the highly specialized IODP research ships that drill sediment and rock cores for scientific studies, as well as an introduction to the international IODP websites where teachers and students can obtain scientific results, real-time information about current research cruises, and learning materials for use in their classrooms.
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Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers |
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ECORD Teacher’s Workshop:
Exploring the Ocean Floor with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Wednesday, April 18 13.30 - 17.30 and Thursday, April 19, 08.30 - 12.30
European Geosciences Union – General Assembly
ECORD Teacher’s Workshop
Austria Center Vienna
Exploring the Ocean Floor with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Wednesday, April 18
11.45 – 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 – 14.00 INTRODUCTION TO THE OCEAN FLOOR AND IODP
Eve Arnold
Department of Geology and Geochemistry
Stockholm University, Sweden
14.00 –15.00 DRILLING INTO THE EARTHQUAKE ZONE IN THE NANKAI TROUGH, JAPAN
Achim Kopf
Research Centre Ocean Margins (RCOM)
Bremen University, Germany
15.00 – 15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.30 – 16.30 IODP AND THE EARTH'S VOLCANISM
Marco Sacchi
Institute for Coastal Marine Environment
National Research Council
Napoli, ITALY
16.30 – 17.30 CORAL REEF RECORDS OF SEA-LEVEL, CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES DURING QUATERNARY TIMES
Gilbert Camoin
CEREGE
Aix-en-Provence, France
Thursday, April 19
08.30 – 09.15 THE CHIKYU
Tadashi Yoshizawa
JAMSTEC
Yokohama, Japan
09.15 – 10.15 RAPID SEDIMENTATION, OVERPRESSURE AND CONTINENTAL MARGIN STABILITY IN THE GULF OF MEXICO
Jan Behrmann
IFM-GEOMAR
Kiel, Germany
10.15 – 10.45 COFFEE BREAK
10.45 – 11.30 MISSION SPECIFIC PLATFORMS
Alan Stevenson
British Geological Survey
Ediburgh, United Kingdom
11.30 – 12.30 EXPLORING THE DEEP SEA SUBSURFACE BIOSPHERE
Judith McKenzie
ETH-Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
12.30 END OF WORKSHOP
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