September/October 2009
Celebrating the
International Year of Planet Earth
Event Update
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What is the International Year
of Planet Earth?
The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) is a U.N. declared event to bring countries together to focus collaboratively on the Earth sciences. The IYPE aims to ensure greater use of the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000+ Earth scientists. The Year’s ultimate goal is to help build safer, healthier, and wealthier societies around the globe. International Year activities will run through December 2009. See more at: www.yearofplanetearth.org
IYPE Education & Outreach Themes:
Groundwater
Hazards
Earth & Health
Climate
Resource Issues
Megacities
Deep Earth
Ocean
Soil
Earth & Life
Celebrating IYPE in the United States
U.S. Scientific Events
The United States will be hosting two scientific meeting events this fall & winter in honor of IYPE. Join us in Portland, Oregon 18 - 21 October 2009 for The Geological Society of America's (GSA) Annual Meeting with events celebrating IYPE, and in San Francisco, California 14 - 18 December 2009 for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) IYPE Session highlighting a three year wrap-up of IYPE with a foucs on the overall legacy of the Year.
Earth Science Week 2009
The American Geological Institute (AGI) invites you to take part in Earth Science Week 2009 11 - 17 October. “Understanding Climate,” is the theme this year which will promote scientific understanding of a timely topic: Earth’s climate. Earth Science Week will encourage people everywhere to explore the natural world and learn about the geosciences.
Discovery Earth
The U.S. National Committee (USNC) for IYPE has been working with the Discovery Channel's new Web site, Discovery Earth. Take a look at the outstanding educational pieces produced to date:
IYPE Radio
Click below to listen to the 10 IYPE radio programs produced through the NPR radio program Earth & Sky, which is heard on over 1,700 broadcast stations in 167 countries. The ten programs were produced in honor of the ten IYPE science themes:
U.S. National Committee Participating Organizations:
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
- Association of American State Geologists (AASG)
- Association of Earth Science Editors (AESE)
- American Geological Institute (AGI)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG)
- Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG)
- Bruce Museum of Arts and Science
- The Geological Society of America (GSA)
- Houston Geological Society (HGS)
- International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
- International Geographical Union (IGU)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Ground Water Association (NGWA)
- North American Committee for Stratigraphic Nomenclature (NACSN)
- Northeastern Science Foundation (NESF)
- Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
- Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Celebrating IYPE around The Globe
IYPE Global Closing Event - Lisbon, Portugal
To celebrate and reflect on the end of the IYPE Triennium (2007-2009), a worldwide event will be held to highlight the key results of IYPE and to launch new initiatives building upon the IYPE legacy. Sponsored by the Government of Portugal, the Planet Earth Lisbon Event will be held 20 - 22 November 2009 and is being organized by IYPE Corp., the Portuguese National Committee for IYPE, and Bombazine, a professional event organizing company. Click here for more information on the closing event.
YES Congress - Beijing, China
The first Young Earth-Scientists (YES) Congress for geoscientists under the age of 35 will be held at the University of Geosciences, in Beijing, China from 25 - 28 October 2009. The conference will discuss global climate and environmental and geological challenges facing society today, with goals to establish an interdisciplinary global network of individuals committed to solving these challenges.
World Stress Map Project
The World Stress Map (WSM) is the global compilation of information on the present-day stress field of the Earth's crust with 21,750 stress data records in its current WSM database. It is a collaborative project between academia, industry, and government which aims to characterize stress patterns and to understand the stress sources.
Earth Learning Ideas
Earth Learning Ideas is a global website that publishes Earth-related teaching ideas designed to be practical resources for teachers and teacher-trainers to use in the classroom. Approximatley one activity per month will be published throughout 2009. Anyone who would like to submit an Earth learning idea is welcome to do so and should refer to the steps listed on the website.
U.S. Sponsors:
Baird Petro
New Dominion, LLC
Geological Society of America
U.S. Geological Survey
National Science Foundation
IYPE Global Conferences & Events
12-16 October 2009, Montevideo, Uruguay
3rd Hemispheric Conference on Medical Geology
18-21 October 2009, Portland, Oregon USA
The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
26-28 October 2009, Beijing, China
First World Young Earth-Scientists Congress 2009
20 - 22 November 2009, Lisbon, Portugal
Planet Earth Lisbon Event - IYPE Global Closing Event
14-18 December 2009, San Francisco, California, USA
American Geophysical Union
(AGU) Fall Meeting
12 June-16 July 2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel
IGU Regional Conference
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Contact Wesley Hill at The Geological Society of America (GSA)
for more information.
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