EGU General Assembly 2018 GIFT Workshop

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Sunday, 8 April 2018

• Guided tour of the Natural History Museum Vienna
  

  Herbert Summesberger and Mathias Harzhauser, Natural History Museum Vienna

Monday, 9 April 2018

• Welcome!
  

  Jonathan Bamber, President of EGU

• Introduction to the 2018 GIFT workshop
  

  Carlo Laj, EGU Committee on Education

• The first million years of the Solar system: from dust to planets
  

  Marc Chaussidon, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France

• The emergence of life
  

  Stephen J. Mojzsis, University of Colorado, CO, USA

• When did the Earth's magnetic field start, and how has it contributed to the preservation of life?
  

  John A. Tarduno, University of Rochester, NY, USA

• Instructions for the poster session EOS03
  

  Eve Arnold, EGU Committee on Education

• Plate Tectonics: The scientific revolution that revealed how our planet works
  

  Massimo Mattei, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

• Hands-on-activities: Crater impact lab
  

  Diane Carrer and Jérémy Camponovo, International High School Valbonne, France

• Hands-on-activities: Teaching the structure of the Earth and plate tectonics
  

  Chris King, EGU Committee on Education

Tuesday, 10 April 2018

• The great oxidation event, 2.3 billion years ago
  

  Ariel Anbar, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA

• Shaping the Earth – from Pangaea... and possibly back again!
  

  Isabelle Ansorge, University of Cape Town, South Africa

• How volcanic eruptions caused Earth's greatest mass extinction and what that tells us about the future
  

  David P.G. Bond, University of Hull, United Kingdom

• Impact events in Earth history: The cretaceouspaleogene boundary ejecta layer and its source crater at Chicxulub
  

  Christian Koeberl, Natural History Museum and University of Vienna, Austria

• Virtual tour: Antarctic islands update
  

  Francine Brondex, Freelancer in Education and Outreach Eric Bataillou, Amiral de Grasse Primary School, Bar sur Loup, France

• EOS3 – Poster session
  

Wednesday, 11 April 2018

• Welcome to the Anthropocene – the Earth in our hands
  

  Reinhold Leinfelder, Free University, Berlin, Germany

• How Earth observation (EO) from space changed our knowledge of the planet
  

  Francesco Sarti and Chris Stewart, European Space Agency / ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

• VtWeB, a new site for teaching geology and geophysics
  

  Manuel Pubellier, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Serge Riazanoff, Visio Terra, Champs-sur-Marne, France

• Ice sheet evolution in the Arctic
  

  Maja Sojtaric, Henry Patton and Alun Hubbard L., UiT The Arctic University of Norway Mona Holmø, Nordnorsk vitensenter Tromsø, Science centre, Tromsø, Norway

• Virtual tour: ‘Teachers-at-sea’ in the Philippine Sea
  

  Glaiza Reobilo, Philippine Science High School, Bicol Region Campus, Philippines Carlo Laj, EGU Committee on Education

• Geological trail from Maria Theresa's Monument to St. Stephen's Cathedral
  

  Herbert Summesberger, Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria

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