Workshop Opportunities
This page provides users with access to all the workshops being run by SERC or by projects with which SERC staff are associated.
On the Cutting Edge
The On the Cutting Edge project runs a series of faculty professional development workshops every year. Topics range from preparation for an academic career to designing innovative courses to emerging themes such as teaching with visualizations and incorporating new discoveries from planetary exploration into geoscience classes. Check out the workshop schedule to get more information on this year's lineup of workshops as well as links to past workshops.
Other Upcoming Workshops
No other workshops scheduled at this time.
Past Workshops
- Student Recruitment and Retention: Conceptual Framework and Practical Suggestions, 2007 GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
- Geoscience Courses That Prepare Future Teachers, May 10-12, 2007, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
- Connecting Geoscience Departments to the Future of Science: New Structures for Research and Curriculum, April 25-27, 2007, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
- MARGINS Education Mini-Workshop: Bringing MARGINS Science to the Classroom, April 5-6, 2007, Arlington, VA
- The Role of Departments in Preparing Future Geoscience Professionals, January 10-12, 2007, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- 2006 AGU Heads and Chairs Workshop, Sunday, December 10, 2006, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
- Infusing Quantitative Literacy into Introductory Geoscience Courses, June 26-28, 2006, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
- Sustainability Workshop: Cows, Colleges, and Curriculum, June 19-20, 2006 (with a follow-up August 28, 2006), St. Olaf College College, Northfield, MN
- Chronos Workshop: Developing Web-based Activities for Teaching Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Geology, June 13-15, 2006, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- Reconsidering the Textbook, May 24-26, 2006, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
- Improving the Quantitative Training of Earth Science Graduate Students, February 21-22, 2006, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
- An Interdisciplinary Exploration: What is Carletons Energy Future, December 7-9, 2005, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
- EarthScope in the Northern Rockies, September 16-18, 2005, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
- A Workshop: Developing Quantitative Activities for Upper Division Geoscience Students, June 27-29, 2005, Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
