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 Earth Science Literacy
2nd Draft Document Review

December 15, 2008 - January 15, 2009

The next draft of the Earth Science Literacy Draft Document is open for community comment. Please log in to add your comments after you have reviewed it.

The draft is now at version 12: Word Doc or Adobe PDF

The Earth Science Literacy Initiative is soliciting your input regarding what all Americans should know about earth science.  This is a critical time to facilitate educated decision-making amongst policy makers, educators, and students.  With geoscience at the forefront in identifying and understanding hazards and human impacts, it is an ideal time for the geoscience community to come to consensus in a common message that can address the current challenges.

This draft document was generated through an NSF-sponsored ~350 participant online workshop held here online in May and a 35 participant in person writing workshop held in July that brought together scientists from a broad representation of the geosciences, including mineralogists, petrologists, resource explorationists, sedimentologists and statigraphers, paleontologists, tectonists, geophysists, geomorphologists, low-temperature geochemists and biogeochemists, continental dynamac ists, volcanologists, geoha zard specialists, and members of the freshwater hydrologic science community.

The document complements the efforts of the Ocean, Climate and Atmospheric science communities in defining the big ideas and supporting concepts essential for a literate public. 

  The final document will be printed near the end of January.  More information regarding this effort is online at www.earthscienceliteracy.org

***Special Announcement: AGU Activities December 2008***

PLEASE PARTICIPATE IN AND PROVIDE YOUR INPUT TO THE
         NSF-SPONSORED PROJECT TO ASSEMBLE A DOCUMENT
    OF WHAT ALL CITIZENS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT EARTH SCIENCE!!

Activities at AGU:
Monday 2:10 - 2:25 pm, Room MC 3011:
Oral Session ED13D: Earth Science Literacy: Building Community Consensus

Tuesday 8:00 am, Hall D:
Poster ED21A-0601: Earth Science Literacy: Big Ideas and Supporting Concepts

Thursday 6:15 pm, Moscone West 3005
Open Town Hall Meeting: Developing a Framework for Earth Science Literacy
 

 

Previous Activities

This first comment period was open in Ocotber 2008.  Comments given then have been read and considered for the next version.

There was a Town Hall meeting at the GSA Meeting in Houston on The Earth Science Literacy Initiative. The meeting was at noon on Monday, October 6, in Room 342AD of the George R. Brown Convention Center.

Small group writing workshop July 2008. A group of 35 assembled at Washington University in St Louis to write the first draft.

Online Workshop
Monday 12 - Friday 23 May 2008

The workshop is now over. Thank you to everyone who participated. If you attended the workshop you can use your userid and password to login and read the workshop contents.

If you have just arrived at this page and wish to be kept informed of developments please sign up for the keep me informed list. As the Earth Science Literacy Intitiative (ESLI) develops we will keep you informed. More information will be posted here over coming months.

More information is also available at the Earth Science Literacy Website

Information from the Application Process that closed on Monday 5 May 2008.

Questions from the application process and answers

Comments received on the application forms

 
 
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