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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