Education
Earthzine’s Second Annual College and University Student Essay and Blogging Contest Theme “Making Citizen Observations a Global Vision”
Earthzine announces its second global essay and blogging competition for college and university students. The contest will award $1200 in prizes with $500 for first place. More details are linked here.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
July 28th, 2010
Announcements, Articles, Earth Observation, Education, Essay Contest 2010
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The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative [ELTI]: Inspiring Leaders to Conserve Tropical Forests and Biodiversity
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama joined forces in a novel initiative to improve the management and protection of tropical forests in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Unlike most training programs, which focus on the people who manage or work in protected areas, ELTI pursues a different group for its workshops: policymakers, community officials, indigenous leaders and managers of working landscapes.
Javier Mateo Vega, posted on
May 20th, 2010
Articles, Biodiversity, Education, Sustainability
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Education Around Earth – Under the Sea at the Top of the World
Come with us as we go “Under the Sea at the Top of the World” and visit the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC) in Barrow, Alaska. BASC brings together a unique blend of scientists, native people, and centuries of Earth observing experience in a coordinated effort of research and education from above the ice to the sea floor below!
Glenn W. Sheehan, posted on
April 8th, 2010
Articles, Education, Oceans, Water, Weather
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Education Around Earth – Ocean Literacy for a Blue Planet
Ocean and aquatic sciences remain among the most underrepresented disciplines in K–12 educational curricula. Rarely taught at any level, concepts about the ocean, the coasts or the Great Lakes infrequently appear in K–12 curriculum materials, textbooks, assessments or standards. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is working to help educators bring ocean sciences into the classroom.
Peg Steffen, posted on
March 22nd, 2010
Articles, Earth Observation, Education, Oceans
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2010 IGES Earth Day Photo & Essay Contest for Grades 5-8
Originally Published by Climate of Our Future
Celebrate Earth Day with middle school students across the country by taking a photograph of something that is changing in your local environment.
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March 9th, 2010
Climate, Earth Observation, Education
Education Around Earth – NASA Contest for Teachers Makes “Top Stars” of Stellar Lessons on Hubble
Find out how teachers who are stars in their classrooms can become “Top Stars” at a NASA-sponsored contest that invites U.S. formal (K-12 and college) and informal educators to submit their best examples of using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in science, technology, engineering or mathematics education.
Dan Stillman, posted on
January 6th, 2010
Announcements, Articles, Education, Technology
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United Nations Decade for Education and Sustainable Development
For the past few months, students and Earthzine readers from around the world have been discussing sustainability during the 2009 Earthzine Student Essay Competition. According to Earthzine’s Associate Editor for Education, Dr. David F. Mullins, “Educators need to think in the broadest of strokes when they envision sustainability. As the students’ essays and blogs pointed out, sustainability is understood differently in different parts of the world. Sustainability is about social and cultural forces as much as it is the environment. And, that’s exactly what UNESCO has found at the midpoint of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.”
Bernard Combes, posted on
December 28th, 2009
Articles, Education, Sustainability
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And The Winners Are…
The 2009 Student Essay Competition Sustainability through Earth Observation and Engineering is pleased to announce the winners:
First Place $500 to David Tshimba, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda for
“By Trying to Solve a Problem, Human Beings Have Now Created a New Issue”
Second Place $250 to Sulaiman Tejan Jalloh, Institute of Advanced Management and Technology, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa for
“Agriculture”
Third Place $150 to Benjamin-Axel Mugema, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda for
“Sustainability: From Modernity to Humanity”
More details available inside
Paul Racette, posted on
December 21st, 2009
Education, Essay Contest 2009, Featured Person, Sustainability
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Finalists for the 2009 Student Essay Competition Sustainability through Earth Observation and Engineering
Read the essays here! Earthzine’s 2009 Student Essay Competition is GREAT! We received essays from around the world from students who discussed issues like marine ecosystems, environmental exploitation, human ecology, and ecological activism. Now it’s the readers’ turn to be involved in the student essay contest. We’ve posted the top seven essays as determined by a panel of judges. Now it’s your turn to select the winner. Authors will be fielding questions in a blog on their essays. Winner’s will be announced on December 21st. Let’s all join in and support these terrific students in the final stage of the 2009 Student Essay Competition!
David F. Mullins Ph.D., posted on
November 15th, 2009
Articles, Education, Sustainability
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Education Around Earth – Analyzing the Spatial Distribution of 4 Crops with a Geographic Information System
For centuries, maps have stirred imaginations and inspired explorations of the unknown. For the past 40 years, GIS has quietly transformed everyday decision making in academia, government, nonprofit, and in business through the manipulation of satellite imagery, maps, graphs, databases, and multimedia in a decision-making framework. Agriculture was one of the first fields to embrace GIS, applied to everything from precision agriculture to invasive weed eradication to sustainable practices.
Joseph Kerski, posted on
September 23rd, 2009
Agriculture, Articles, Education, Featured Article
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Orbital Sunrise
The Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station photographed this image of polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by an orbital sunrise. Polar mesospheric, or noctilucent ("night shining"), clouds usually are seen at twilight, following the setting of the sun below the horizon and darkening of Earth's surface. Occasionally the station's orbital track becomes nearly parallel to Earth's day/night terminator for a time, allowing the clouds to be visible to the crew at times other than the usual twilight because of the station's altitude. This photograph shows polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by the rising, rather than setting, sun at center right. Low clouds on the horizon appear yellow and orange, while higher clouds and aerosols are illuminated a brilliant white. Polar mesospheric clouds appear as light blue ribbons extending across the top of the image. The station was located over the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea (near the southwestern coastline of Turkey) when the image was taken at approximately midnight local time. The orbital complex was tracking northeastward, nearly parallel to the terminator, making it possible to observe an apparent "sunrise" located almost due north. A similar unusual alignment of the ISS orbit track, terminator position and seasonal position of Earth's orbit around the sun allowed for this striking imagery of over the Southern Hemisphere. Image Credit: NASA
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