Recently in Workshops & Fieldtrips Category
• Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History “Paleobiology Training Program”, with sessions covering paleontology and collections management (Washington D.C., 1999)
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science “Paleontology Certification Program”, month-long sessions titled Research Methods and Report Writing and Curation Techniques (Colorado, 2000-2001)
• Participant in nautical and aeronautical charting and surveying, GPS field experience, Field Photogrametry Unit, National Ocean Service, NOAA (Summers 1991, 1992)
• Participant in the Northern Baja Global Positioning System (GPS) Experiment, Baja California, Mexico, through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California (Spring 1993)
The following are fieldtrips that I have attended to enhance my teaching and research objectives.
• Denver EarthCache Tour, led by C. McLelland of the Geological Society of America (Denver, 2007)
• Denver’s Building Stone Tour, led by J. Murphy of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (Denver, 2007)
• Dinosaur Provincial Park, led by D. Eberth, GeoSciEd IV meeting (Calgary, 2003)
• Watkins Glen State Park, led by faculty from the Geology Department of Cornell University, DLESE Annual Meeting (New York, 2002)
• Folly Beach, South Carolina: Tomorrow’s Coastal Problems, Today, led by G. Lennon, Geological Society of America Southeastern Section Meeting (Charleston, 2000)
• Geology and Geomorphology of Stone Mountain, Georgia, led by J.A. Whitney, J. Dennison, and P. Gore, Geological Society of America Southeastern Section Meeting (Athens, 1999)
• Jurassic Morrison Dinosaurs of Utah and Colorado, led by D.D. Gillette of the Museum of Northern Arizona, AAPG Annual Meeting (Salt Lake City, 1998)
• Miocene Phosphate Deposits of Florida, led by J.S. Compton, 1st SEPM Congress on Sedimentary Geology “Linked Earth Systems” (St. Petersburg Beach, 1995)
• Carbonate Sedimentology of Great Bahama Bank, led by R.N. Ginsburg of the University of Miami-RSMAS (Bahamas, 1993)
• “Stewardship of Public Lands,” led by the American Democracy Project/AASCU, Yellowstone National Park, WY (2007)
• “National Collegiate Honors Council – Technology in Honors Education,” led by the Honors College at University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR (2007)
• “Podcasting in Higher Education: Current Trends and Applications,” online workshop through the Sloan Consortium (2007)
• “Professional Development Institute for Community Service and Service-Learning Professionals,” led by Campus Compact, Providence, RI (2006)
• “Just-in-Time Teaching Assessment Workshop,” led by faculty with NSF funding for JiTT initiatives, Colorado Springs, CO (2005)
• “Writing a Good NSF Geoscience or Geoscience Education Proposal Workshop,” led by the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. (2000)
• “Geology of Coastal Ecosystems Workshop,” sponsored by the National Park Service, USGS, and the Geological Society of America, Ocean City, MD (1999)
• “April Dialogue – Opportunities and Issues in Research and Education,” sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research, National Science Foundation (1999)
• “Sequence Stratigraphy of Prograding Complexes” short course, CSPG/SEPM Joint Convention, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, by John Armentrout (1997)
• “Sequence Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Reef and Carbonate Platforms” short course, Univ. of Miami, by Wolfgang Schlager and Gregor Eberli (1994)
The following are pedagogical workshops I attended at the Geological Society of America's annual meetings.
- Designing Effective Geoscience Education Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (Salt Lake City, 2005)
- Using Conceptests to Improve Teaching and Learning in Large Classes (Denver, 2004)
- Designing a Successful Student-Centered Online Geology Course (Boston, 2001)
- Integrating Technology into Introductory College Courses: A Practical Guide (Boston, 2001)
- Girl Scout Geology Badge Workshop (Boston, 2001)
- Evolution: Investigating the Evidence (Denver, 1999)
- Short Course: Teaching Earth System History - A Computer Assisted Approach (Denver, 1999)
- Developing Undergraduate Research Programs - Strategies for Success (Toronto, 1998)
- Directing Undergraduate Research Programs - Strategies for Success (Toronto, 1998)
- Oceanography Workshop (Toronto, 1998)
- Learning from the Fossil Record (Denver, 1996)
- Dive into K-12 Geoscience Partnering with Project WET (Denver, 1996)
- Exploring the Solar System in the Classroom: A Hands-On Approach (New Orleans, 1995)
- Computer Applications in Undergraduate Geoscience Courses for the Macintosh (Seattle, 1994)
- Effective Teaching Practices: A Workshop for Graduate Students, Assistant Professors, and
Anyone Else Interested in Becoming a Better Teacher (Seattle, 1994)
- Introduction to Geocaching, Technology in Practice Webinar Series through the International Society for Technology in Education (online, September 24, 2008)
- Storytelling Workshop, Eastern Communication Association annual meeting (Pittsburgh, PA, May 1, 2008)
- Advising the Honors Student: A Teaching-Learning Paradigm, a NACADA workshop at the National Collegiate Honors Council conference (Denver, CO, October 31, 2007)
- The Pennsylvania State University Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy full-day seminar "A Scholarship for Democracy" (April 14, 2007)
- NSF-MARGINS Education Mini-Workshop "Bringing MARGINS Science to the Classroom" (Arlington, VA, April 5-6, 2007)
- The Pennsylvania State University online course "OL 2000: Effective Online Teaching" (January 2007)
- Geoscience Education Research (GeoSciEd IV, Calgary, 2003)
- NAGT/DLESE/NSF "Using Global Datasets in the Classroom" (On the Cutting Edge, Workshop for Geoscience Faculty, San Francisco, 2002)
- Improving Introductory Science Teaching for Non-Science Majors (AGU, San Francisco, 2002)
- NAGT/DLESE/NSF "Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences" (On the Cutting Edge, Workshop for Geoscience Faculty, New York, 2002)
- Introduction to ArcView GIS (DLESE, New York, 2002)
- GIS Techniques for Undergraduate Earth Science (DLESE, New York, 2002)
- Selected as a Teaching Innovation Program (TIP) Faculty Seminar participant for "The Pedagogy of Environmental Awareness" (Mary Washington College, Fall 1999/Spring 2000)
- NAGT/NSF "Workshop for Early Career Faculty in the Geosciences: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career" (Montana, 1999)
- Building the Quantitative Skills of Non-Majors in Earth and Planetary Science Courses (PKAL, Virginia, 1999)