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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Three faculty members from the
Earth Sciences Department
of the SUNY College at Oneonta have been selected as presenters at the 2008
joint annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Soil Science
Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of
America, and Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies on October 5-9
in Houston Texas. Approximately 10,000 scientists are expected to attend the
first-ever joint meeting of the societies, which will celebrate the
International Year of Planet Earth.
Professor
James Ebert of the Earth Sciences Department and his co-presenter,
Theresa Schwerin of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, will
offer a presentation entitled "Earth Systems/Digital Systems: On-Line
Professional Development for K-12 Teachers." The presentation will examine
online professional development for teachers, using examples from the
College's online graduate course, "Introduction to Earth's Integrated
Systems," and e-mail listserv, ESPRIT.
Assistant Professor
Tatiana Vislova and Associate Professor
Peter Muller will present "Normal Faulting and Magmatism in the
Northeastern Adirondack Highlands, NY: Implications of Geochemical and
Structural Data of Upper Bouquet Valley Mafic Dike Swarm." They will discuss
their research on the geological formations at the Upper Bouquet Valley
fault south of Elizabethtown.
More information about the meeting and the presentations is available at
www.acsmeetings.org
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