35^TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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35^TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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Geoscience Education and Public Communication Themes

Paper Title	Presenting Author Names
Geolodía (Geoloday): yearly-running of fifty simultaneous Geological fieldtrips across Spain open to the general public	Prof. Marcos Aurell
Connecting innovation and Geoscience knowledge for Brazilian basic education teachers	Dr. C.D.R. Carneiro
Location and Visualization - the Keys to Geological Education and Research	Dr. Callan Bentley
The need of Geoscience Education at Schools of the SAARC countries	Dr. Shreerup Goswami Dr. Ashit Kumar Swain
Geo-Education made easy through debating	Mrs Helke Mocke
TravelingGeologist: an online platform for disseminating Earth Science research and inspiring the next generation of field geologists	Dr Christopher Spencer
GeoEducation and cooperation for sustainable development of the coast zone in East and Southeast Asia, a case demonstration for Geology 20+ ?	Dr. Ping YIN
Understanding the Process of Co-Constructive Learning with Scientific Modeling in Geological Field Trip.	Jr. Yoon-Sung Choi
Implementation of Sri Lankan Earth Science Olympiad competition to promote Geoscience education at secondary schools	Mr. Ashvin Wickramasooriya
The role of belief, trust and values in communicating controversial geoscience topics	Dr. Steven Anderson
Delivering authentic online practical science teaching - geoscience perspectives from the OpenScience Laboratory	Dr. Tom Argles
FieldscapesVR: Virtual world field trips to extend and enrich field teaching	Dr. Tom Argles
Training field mapping geologists; the Council for Geoscience (CGS) Field School experience	Mr. Nick Baglow
Communicating geoscience knowledge at the time of natural disaster- experiences from Manipal, southwest coast of India	Dr. Keshava Balakrishna
Education programmes and facilities at Geoscience Australia	Mrs. Shona Blewett
Linking Geoscientists and Geoscience Information with Decision Makers at the U.S. Federal, State, and Local Levels	Dr. Maeve Boland
Ten Geological Superlatives of South Africa in a special issue of Postage Stamps to celebrate the 35 th International Geological Congress at Cape Town, 2016	Mr. Pieter Bosch
Geoscience and Indigenous Knowledge: Lightning and the Lowveld Lavender	Dr. Ann Cameron
Ten years experience of International Earth Science Olympiad: what is the worldwide impact on Earth Science Education?	Dr. Celso Dal Ré Carneiro
Audiovisual resources and communication: a laboratory discipline for scientific popularization of Geosciences	Dr. Celso Dal Ré Carneiro
Small gesture, big effect! Investigation of the role of gestures in teaching plate tectonics through an eye tracking experiment!	Dr. Dominik Conrad
Keeping geosciences curricula at the tertiary level relevant - a South African example, School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand.	Prof. Gillian Drennan
Communicating geology and law to the public: why is it so hard in the Coal Seam Gas industry?	Mr. Adam Edwards
The cycle of iron and the curricular integration to high school level	Prof. Pedro Goncalves
Why do we use old didactic movies to teach Earth Sciences?	Prof. Pedro Goncalves
ICT in Geoscience education from International Geoscience School SYLLABUS	Dr. Rosely Imbernon
Matching mining and geoscience focussed education with industry needs and demand: Lessons from INTRAW's reference countries.	Prof. Kip Jeffrey
A Field-Based Volcanology Course in Ecuador: From the Andes to the Galapagos Islands	Dr. Daniel Kelley
Our "International year of Earth science educator stories" project	Prof. Chris King
Earthlearningidea: a global web-based resource of geoscience teaching ideas - an analysis	Prof. Chris King
Launch of the "Sand on a sill" international collaborative research project	Prof. Chris King
Geoscience Education - Meeting social responsibility and operational requirements at Lonmin Marikana Operations.	Mrs. Riana Knipe
Passing the Torch: Broad, but not shallow, teaching by senior geologists with a highly diversified career experience	Mr. Roland Loewer
Are you related to a cabbage: A pragmatic approach to teaching evolution in the classroom and dealing with fundamentalist religious beliefs.	Dr. Ian McKay
Curriculum reform can make a difference. The case of the introduction of palaeontology and evolution into the South African School Curriculum .	Dr. Ian McKay
An Introduction to Innovation Terminology for Mining/Geology Professionals	Dr. Gargi Mishra
On the Cutting Edge: A Global Resource to Support Excellence in Geoscience Education	Dr. David Mogk
What kind of oil are we running out of? - Young people"s misconceptions about oil and the hydrocarbon industry.	Dr. Phillip Murphy
How did the earthquake-related content of Rika textbooks change after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake?	Dr. Hiroo Nemoto
"Sand on a sill" - International collaborative research project: An Australian perspective	Dr. Bronte Nicholls
Promoting Earth sciences teaching-learning in the Italian schools: a research of learning objects, effective educational approaches, to improve skills and competences	Dr. Susanna Occhipinti
"A Swiss - Icelandic Recipe for Successful Continuing Education Program in Applied Geology - The Concept of the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Applied Earth Sciences at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Guarantor for Persistence in a Rapidly Changing Market Environment"	Dr. Björn Oddsson
Desktop Toys for Educational Seismology -Random or Periodic? Before or After?-	Mr. Yoshio Okamoto
Developing a low cost crystallography workshop for learners	Dr. Tanja Reinhardt
AusGeol.org - A Virtual Library of Australia"s Geology	Dr. Michael Roach
Development of Interactive Web Applications for Geoscience Education	Prof. Takashi Sawaguchi
Drinking tour through the museum	Dr. Jose Selles-Martinez
Earthquake models used in class: What about their weaknesses?	Dr. Jose Selles-Martinez
Place-based geoscience education: A narrative from the Southwestern United States	Dr. Steven Semken
The Strategic Plan of the Australian Geoscience Council - development, implementation and early results	Dr. Bill Shaw
Utility-scale wind energy projects: managing public perception and environmental risk	Prof. Michael Slattery
Vertical Photo Mosaics as a tool in Geosciences education.	Mr. Natraj Vaddadi
The role of the IGCP Spanish National Committee in the UNESCO-IUGS Global enterprise, working together to construct a better world	Prof. José Ignacio Valenzuela-Ríos
Bringing diverse talent to the geophysics workforce, a review of the AfricaArray International Geophysics Field School	Prof. Susan Webb
The Changing Dynamics of the U.S. Geoscience Workforce Compared to the International Geoscience Workforce	Ms. Carolyn Wilson
Teaching Earth Sciences to non-geosciences major undergraduates by using science-fiction movies	Dr. Shimin Wu
New ideas for Geoparks Science Popularization and Geoheritage Interpretation: examples in Chinese Geoparks	Dr. Kejian Xu
Challenges and opportunities in lecturing geosciences in a transforming South African University	Ms. Carrie Zermatten
Visualising early life on Earth: Building a 4-Dimensional virtual field trip (VFT) of the 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia.	Ms. Tara Djokic
Building Good Foundations: Skills for Effective Engagement in Sustainable Development	Mr. Joel Gill
Promoting Young Earth Scientists for Future Earth from G20+ to the World	Mr. Meng Wang
APPLICATION OF GEO-EDUCATION METHODS ON EGYPTIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS	Dr. Kholoud Abdel Maksoud
Challenges of Geoscience education in Africa: A Nigerian case study	Mr Olusegun Gbenga Olisa Mr Jerry Olugbenga Olajide-Kayode
Geo Science Education in Malawi: The Case of Geography in Secondary Schools	Mrs. Yvonne Ndushe Fransiska Mwalwenje
Geoscience Communication: From a Geoscientist"s perspective	Dr. Swapna Acharjee
Communicating Geoscience with the Public Through Print Publications - the Importance of Understanding Cognitive Differences in Audiences	Dr. Christopher Keane
The Recession - sink or swim: an opportunity for Young Earth Scientists to innovate	Ms. Victoria Upindi
A FIELD-BASED METHOD FOR TEACHING UNIFORMITARIAN PRINCIPLES USING TRACKWAY RECONSTRUCTIONS	Mr. William Garcia
An ethno-methodological approach to the formation of indigenous teachers in the Amazon region (acre, Brazil) - The concept of soil	Dr. Rosely Imbernon
Educational practices in Oga Peninsula-Ogata Geopark, northeast Japan.	Prof. Norihito Kawamura
Low-Cost and Easy-Made Horizontal Seismometer with Arduino for Educational Use -Demonstration and Observation--	Mr. Yoshio Okamoto
Educational Program "GEA - Mother Earth": a story of success linking Geosciences to Society in the Portuguese speaking countries	Dr. Artur Sá
The importance of non-formal education for geoconservation: the example of the Museum of Una - São José da Coroa Grande (Pernambuco, NE Brazil)	Dr. Artur Sá
Radio-anomalies and acoustic emissions for the teaching of Seismology	Dr. Valentino Straser
Using ESRI"s Collector app to improve undergraduate geoscience field trips	Mr. Dave Tewksbury
The Supersphere Characters: Children"s Books (up to 5 years) Promoting Geoscience and Environmental Education	Mrs. Gisele Vasconcelos
The Importance of Early Childhood Earth Science Education: Understanding of the Planet That We Live On Is a Fundamental Step Toward Sustainability	Dr. Patricia Vickers Rich
The education in the National Museum of Geology (Geological Institute of Romania): Art, Science and Fun	Ms. Ramona Visalom
Mechanism and Countermeasures of Water Culture on Eco-geological Environment Synergetic Development in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region	Prof. Kaining Yu
Gauging how novice geologists process and learn in first field experiences	Dr. Megan D'Errico
Science and Education at Congaree National Park	Ms. Tarryn Lee