30 October 2013
UNAVCO at GSA
Thanks for coming to visit us at our new booth, engaging with us through talks, posters, and workshops, and collaborating with us. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from GSA 2013.
GSA Short Courses
UNAVCO led or co-led three short courses at GSA this year. On Friday, October 25, UNAVCO co-sponsored "Introduction to Terrestrial Laser Scanning (Ground-Based LiDAR) for Earth Science Research," a short course for geoscientists interested in understanding TLS workflow and capablities. The course was held at the UNAVCO facility in Boulder, Colorado. For more information and to download course presentations, visit the course webpage.
On Saturday, October 26, UNAVCO worked with The Geological Society of America Teacher Advocate Program to teach courses on "Yellowstone National Park as a Hotbed for Inquiry—For Teachers" in the morning and "Integrating GPS, LiDAR, InSAR, and Other Geodesy Data into Undergraduate Courses" in the afternoon. For more information on these two short courses, visit the GSA 2013 short courses webpage.
The Booth
UNAVCO redesigned our booth this year for simplicity and economy. What did you think?
We still had our tectonic rulers and geodesy bumper stickers, as well as some other fun items, for the cost of a "Like" on Facebook. Haven't "Liked" us yet? Check us out!
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Figure 1. UNAVCO polar engineer Marianne Okal leads a group from a GSA short course through the basics of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) outside the UNAVCO facility in Boulder, Colorado. UNAVCO currently has five TLS...
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Figure 2. UNAVCO polar engineer Marianne Okal leads a group from a GSA short course through the basics of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) outside the UNAVCO facility in Boulder, Colorado. UNAVCO currently has five TLS...
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Figure 3. Vince Cronin of Baylor University teaches science educators about geodesy at a GSA short course led by UNAVCO Education Specialist Shelley Olds before the 125th Anniversary annual GSA meeting in Denver,...
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Figure 4. Science educators participate in a GSA short course led by UNAVCO Education Specialist Shelley Olds before the 125th Anniversary annual GSA meeting in Denver, Colorado. The course was entitled Yellowstone...
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Figure 5. UNAVCO-led GSA short course attendees learn about geodetic teaching tools in Integrating GPS, LiDAR, InSAR, and Other Geodesy Data into Undergraduate Courses at the GSA annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on...
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Figure 6. UNAVCO-led GSA short course attendees learn about geodetic teaching tools in Integrating GPS, LiDAR, InSAR, and Other Geodesy Data into Undergraduate Courses at the GSA annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on...
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Figure 7. The new 10-foot UNAVCO booth, set up and ready to go for GSA. Photo by Beth Bartel....
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Figure 8. RESESS director Aisha Morris explains her poster at the 2013 annual GSA meeting in Denver. Photo by Beth Bartel....
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Figure 9. Former RESESS director Valerie Sloan, 2013 RESESS intern Rachel Medina, and research mentor Glen Mattioli speak about the research Medina completed the summer of 2013, represented on her poster at the 2013...
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Figure 10. The RESESS program was heavily represented at GSA: RESESS director Aisha Morris, 2012 and 2013 interns Isabel Villaneda-van Vloten and Kayla Christian, 2010 and 2012 intern Habib Bravo-Ruiz, 2013 interns Gina...
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Figure 11. UNAVCO president Meghan Miller shares space at the UNAVCO booth with empty bottles of the GSA 125th anniversary Field Assistant Ale, made by Lefthand Brewery in Longmont, Colorado. Photo by Linda Rowan....
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Posters and Presentations and Student Research
UNAVCO staff were first authors on three oral presentations and four posters. UNAVCO-related abstracts can be accessed through the GSA website.
UNAVCO's internship program, Research Experiences in Solid Earth Science for Students (RESESS), was heavily represented at GSA this year. Eight RESESS interns and alumni attended the GSA Annual Meeting, with four of them receiving funding for the meeting through GSA's On to the Future program. Three of the students gave talks and three presented posters during the meeting, while two received external funding to attend the meeting for enrichment without presenting. Cross-cohort connections were made when alumni stopped by the UNAVCO booth or joined the 2013 interns for the RESESS dinner. Learn about the RESESS program and how to become a research mentor on the RESESS webpage.
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