Education and Outreach News
March 1, 2013
Natural History Museum of Utah takes Learning Outdoors with iUTAH.
The Natural History Museum of Utah sponsored a series of outdoor learning activities for K-12 students to provide them with the opportunity to conduct their own hands-on water research at the Bear River Watershed in Northern, Utah.
Activities included a series of water workshops, water tests and scientific discussions focusing on the topic of water sustainability."The outdoors is a great place to integrate the curriculum!" said Jessica Wright, a participant from Viewmont Elementary. "There are so many subject areas that can be integrated through learning outdoors. Students can use research skills as they research to find out more and they can use math skills as they analyze data they find."
Aaron Daniels, a participating teacher from Murray High School, commented on the impact of the outdoor learning activities had on his students."Learning outdoors allows for an authentic experience where students are involved in their own learning. They are observing, questioning, making inferences and writing it down so they can learn from it. They are thinking about themselves and how they are a part of their surroundings. They can learn that they can make a difference."
Additional iUTAH outdoor learning activities will strive to promote these same educational learning values within educational institutions throughout the state.
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January 10, 2013
Save the Date - Annual Conference on Effective Diverse Education
March 1-3, 2013 - Bringing It Home: Elements of Effective Diverse Education, the Bioregional Outdoor Education Project 10th Annual Conference in conjunction with iUtah EPSCoR at Utah Sate University-Eastern, Blanding Campus, Blanding, UT
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December 20, 2012
2013 CHANS Fellowship Call for Applications
With support from the National Science Foundation, the International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS-Net.org) offers CHANS Fellowships each year.
CHANS-Net is pleased to call for applications for CHANS Fellowships in 2013. The selected CHANS Fellows will present or give poster presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Aug. 4-9, 2013, in Minneapolis, Minn. They also will have opportunities to interact with prominent scientists to learn the latest research developments and build professional networks.
Approximately 10 fellowships (up to $1,000 each) are awarded to the selected graduate students, postdoctoral associates, junior faculty members and/or other junior researchers at other institutions around the world to defray expenses associated with attending the meeting. Applications are judged on the merit of the applicants' abstracts, financial need, and professional backgrounds and goals. Members of under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Applicants must be CHANS-Net members to apply for a CHANS Fellowship. To join CHANS-Net, simply click on the “Join Today” link on the upper right corner of the homepage. There is no fee to join or participate.
Applications are due by Feb. 21, 2013. The selection will be made by the end of April 2013.
October 29, 2012
iUTAH Graduate Research Fellow Posters
View the iUTAH Graduate Research Fellow posters. Research topics range from water quantity and quality monitoring to computer modeling to water resource decision-making.
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October 29, 2012
Red Butte Creek Student Project
Watch the presentation of The Red Butte Creek Project (RBCP). The RBCP was initiated by an interdisciplinary group of GCSC-affiliated graduate students in a course on Global Changes and Society (Spring 2012). This project-based course engaged graduate students from geography, civil and environmental engineering, city and metropolitan planning, geology and geophysics, mechanical engineering, biology, and mathematics.
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