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New Initiatives for Geoscience Education in New Zealand

Explore New Zealand as a natural teaching laboratory through a 5-week field camp and a 5-month semester at the University of Auckland. Learn about natural vs. human impact on the environment and what restoration means.

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New Initiatives for Geoscience Education in New Zealand

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  1. New Initiatives for Geoscience Education in New Zealand GRAVLEY, D.M., HIKUROA, D.C.H, BORELLA, M.W., KENCH, P.S., WILSON, C.J.N, and OWEN, S.

  2. The University of Auckland Geography + Geology + Environmental Science = The School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science (SGGES)

  3. Earth Systems Study of Science Abroad Program (ESCAPE) • Take advantage of New Zealand as a natural teaching laboratory • 5 week field camp with a research component • 5 month semester within SGGES at University of Auckland • Research from field camp will continue on campus, i.e. Longitudinal Learning

  4. Talking Points: • A new educational initiative and model for Earth Systems Study of Science in New Zealand • Natural vs. Human impact on the environment • What is “Restoration?”

  5. Taupo the volcano Natural vs. Human impact on the environment • Active since about 300,000 years ago • World’s single more frequently active and productive rhyolite volcano • 28 eruptions in the last 26,000 years

  6. 1: Fall deposits, 430 km3 bulk volume … the Oruanui eruption 2: Ignimbrite deposits, 320 km3 bulk volume ~530 km3 magma

  7. Lake Taupo Lake Taupo rose to about 500 m above sea level, impounded by a blockage in the Waikato River valley in the Taupo-Wairakei area

  8. Lake Taupo history: 80 cubic kilometres of water in a single catastrophic flood, and subsequent sedimentation, 26 ka - 14 ka

  9. Picture courtesy of the Whakatane Beacon Matata: May 18 2005: catastrophic rainfall event generating debris flows

  10. Bi-directional moa trackways, underprints, ~12 prints

  11. The Human Impact: “Superfund” Site

  12. “Superfund” Site Mt. Putauaki (Edgecumbe) Mill Dump site

  13. “Superfund” Site

  14. “Superfund” Site 1944

  15. “Superfund” Site 1972

  16. “Superfund” Site 2002

  17. “Superfund” Site

  18. Earth Systems research projects at “Superfund” site: • What is “Restoration?” • Longitudinal Learning • Geology, Ecology, Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Geothermal Energy, Soil Science, Humans

  19. www.frontiersabroad.com 2008 ESCAPE students: Steven Hochman (Pomona College) Adam Kotin (Pomona College) Tim Lambert (Stanford University) Evan Frye (Franklin & Marshall College)

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