Cape Town 2017 GIFT Workshop

Please see the full brochure (PDF document, 24.8 MB) for more details.

Wednesday, 30 August 2017

• Welcome!
  

  Isabelle Ansorge & Carlo Laj
• Practical Information for the 2017 GIFT Workshop
  

  The Organizing Committee
• SEAmester – South Africa’s Class Afloat
  

  Isabelle Ansorge

  • Presentation (PDF document, 9.9 MB)
• Bounded by the Oceans
  

  Tamaryn Morris

  • Presentation (PDF document, 3.6 MB)
• The Ocean: a key component of the Global climate system
  

  Sabrina Speich

  • Presentation (PDF document, 104.5 MB)
  • Presentation (MP4 video, 60.7 MB)
• Using fossil micromammals and frogs for palaeoclimatic reconstruction
  

  Thalassa Matthews
• Past Climate, a key to the future
  

  André Berger & Qiuzhen Yin

  • Presentation (PDF document, 3.7 MB)
• How can we best teach these ideas in the classroom?
  

  led by EGU Committee members
• Fifteen years of Educational Activities at the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
  

  Carlo Laj

  • Presentation (PDF document, 4.6 MB)
• Pitfalls and drawbacks of engaging junior faculty in outreach activities
  

  Edgar Bering

  • Presentation (PDF document, 1.0 MB)
• Real-time geomagnetic data from a Rasberry Pi magnetometer network in the UK
  

  William Brown
• Sparkling Geomagnetic Field: Geomagnetic observations with schools in Austria
  

  Rachel Bailey
• A Brief History of the American Geophysical Union Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Education and Public Outreach Committee
  

  Edgar Bering

  • Presentation (PDF document, 1.8 MB)

Thursday, 31 August 2017

• Teaching Students How to Research the Upper Atmosphere Using High Altitude Balloons
  

  Edgar Bering
• The geomagnetic field: behavior and origin
  

  Nicolas Gillet

  • Presentation (PDF document, 40.6 MB)
• Importance of geomagnetic field for the life on Earth
  

  Eduard Petrovsky

  • Presentation (PDF document, 1.8 MB)
• The South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly: a magnetic window from the Earth’s core to space
  

  Angelo De Santis

  • Presentation (PDF document, 4.6 MB)
• The original experiment of K. F. Gauss
  

  Nicolas Gillet

  • Presentation (PDF document, 2.8 MB)
• Classroom modelling activities to teach about the Earth and its magnetism
  

  Chris King

Friday, 1 September 2017

• Is the Earth’s magnetic field heading for a flip? Hints from the past
  

  Carlo Laj & Catherine Kissel

  • Presentation (PDF document, 2.7 MB)
• Oceans: The Mystery of the Missing Plastic
  

  Video directed by Vincent Pérazio, produced by Via Découvertes Films & Arte France, and distributed by Java Films.
• How can we best teach these ideas in the classroom?
  

  led by EGU committee members
• Using demonstrations of the Earth, atmosphere and oceans to teach thinking and investigation skills
  

  Chris King

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