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Information - ES1 GIFT Workshop: Geosciences in the City
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The general theme of the 2006 GIFT workshop is ”Geosciences in the City” – one of the themes of the coming International Year of Planet Earth, a program sustained by UNESCO and different Scientific Institutions throughout the world.
In 1950, 30% of the world’s population lived in cities. In 2000 it was 47% and this increasing trend still continues: in 2007 more than half of the world’s population will live in cities. Urban settings are exposed to pollution created by human activities, such as power plants (emission of CO2, CO, NO SO2, soot), traffic (CO2, CO, SOx, hydrocarbons, noise..;), industrial plants and water waste and runoff. While the impact of anthropogenic factors are continuous and usually easily understood by the general public, it is not always obvious how geological and natural factors influence our daily life because of their somewhat unpredictable nature (hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions…).
The purpose of the GIFT-2007 workshop is to illustrate how all these different factors interact and to make teachers and their students and, through them, the general public aware of the complexity of the environmental problems in urban areas.
Towns such as Rome and Istanbul, because of their long history, geographic/geological location and high concentration of inhabitants, represent areas where exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards are disproportionately high, and will be a main target for the GIFT workshop. In the first part of the workshop, the geological and natural setting of these towns will be discussed, together with the impact of natural hazards on modern cities. In the second part of GIFT-2007 we’ll discuss atmospheric pollution linked to high population density and other natural and anthropogenic factors, and the approaches that urban authorities use to mitigate them.
Information and activities that teachers can use in their classrooms to make their students aware of these problems and to stimulate reduction of energy consumption to a minimum, will also be an important aspect of GIFT-2007.
Preliminary program (subject to changes)
European Geosciences Union – General Assembly
GEOPHYSICAL INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS (GIFT) WORKSHOP
Austria Center Vienna
Geosciences in the City
Monday April 16, 2007
08:30 - 09:00 OPENING OF THE WORKSHOP
09:00 – 09:15 A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL HASARDS IN URBAN AREAS
Fausto Guzzetti
President
Natural Hasard Section EGU
9:15 – 10:15 THE ROOTS OF URBAN GEOLOGY: THE CITY OF ROMA
Renato Funiciello
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Univeristà Roma-TRE, Italy
10:15 – 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 – 11:45 A TOWN WITH THE MOST PRECIOUS STONES IN THE WORLD
(LIVING WITH GEOLOGY IN ISTANBUL)
A. M. Celâl Sengör, Necdet Özgül, Mehmet Sakinç and Okan Tüysüz
Istanbul Techical University
Istanbul, Turkey.
11:45 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 – 14:15 THE DRAGON’S HEAD STORY: WATER/LAND CONFLICT IN SHANGHAI
Pinxian Wang
State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology
Tongji University
Shanghai, China
14:15 – 15;15 Teacher – Scientist Collaboration:
HIGH-DENSITY MACROSEISMIC SURVEY IN THE CITY OF ROME
Roberta Rosa, Francesca Cifelli & Francesca Funiciello
Liceo Classico Vivona, and University of Roma Tre
15:15 – 16:30 Teacher – to – Teachers communication:
THE IMPACT OF EARTHQUAKES STUDIED USING A COMPUTER DRIVEN VIBRATING TABLE
François Tilquin and Gilles Baudrant
Earth sciences-Biology and Physics teachers
Abel Dubois, Cathy Labonne, Alison Hoang
Students
Lycée Marie Curie, Echirolles, France.
16:30 – end of day GUIDED TOUR OF THE VIENNA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Herbert Summesberger
or VISIT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF EGU
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
08:30 – 09:15 THE AUGUST 2002 FLOOD IN PRAGUE IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORICAL AND RECENT FLOODS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Rudolf Brazdil
Masaryk University, Brno
Czech Republic
9:15 – 10:00 THE INTERNATIONAL CHARTER SPACE AND MAJORS DISASTERS :
A SPACE RESPONSE FOR RISK MANAGEMENT
Selma Cherchali
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
Toulouse, France
10:00 - 10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 10:45 A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES IN URBAN AREAS
Ulrich Poeschl
President
Atmospheric Sciences Section, EGU
10:45 - 11:45 MILAGRO MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN OVER MEXICO CITY METROPOLITAN AREA
Luisa T. Molina
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Molina Center for Energy and the Environment, USA
11:45 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 14:15 BRINGING MILAGRO SCIENCES TO THE PUBLIC, STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS, THROUGH THE WINDOWS TO THE UNIVERSE WEBSITE
Roberta Johnson
Education and Outreach, UCAR,
Boulder, CO USA
14:15 – 14:45 THE COPERNICUS JOURNAL FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS
Dick van der Wateren
EGU Press Officer
14:45 – 15:45 Teacher-to-Teachers communications
SPACE AND ENVIRONMENT: CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL
Nicole Herman
Lycée Rooselvet, Reims, France
FROM 1910 TO 2010 : A NEW FLOOD IN PARIS?
(A SCHOOL PROGRAM)
Jean-Raphaël Deutsch
Collège-Lycée Sévigné, Paris, France
15:45 – End of the day VISIT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Wednesday April 18 , 2006
09:00 – 10:00 TOWARDS UNDERGROUND CITIES?
Eduardo F.J. de Mulder
Executive Director of the International Year of Planet Earth
IYPE Secretariat, NGU, Trondheim, Norway
10:00 - 11:15 TEACHER – TO – TEACHERS COMMUNICATIONS:
THE ECO-VILLAGE CHALLENGE:
A STUDENT INVESTIGATION AND APPLICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAND USE PLANNING
Brittany Neptun
NewTrier High School
Northfield, Ill, USA
SWEET SCIENCE
(Using sweets and biscuits to teach some ideas of geology to lower school students, aged 11-14)
Sue Howarth and Alan Wollhead
Tettenhall College, Tettenhall WV, and Bromsgrove School, Bromsgrove, Great Britain
11:45 – 12:00 FILLING OF EVALUATION FORMS AND PRESENTATION OF THE GIFT-2008 WORKSHOP
END OF THE GIFT WORKSHOP
12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 ECORD WORKSHOP
ECORD WORKSHOP CONTINUES TILL THURSDAY, APRIL 19 12:00
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