EGU General Assembly 2011 GIFT Workshop

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Sunday, 3 April 2011

• Guided tour of the vienna museum of natural history
  

  Herbert Summesberger and Mathias Harzhauser
  Vienna Museum of Natural History

Monday, 4 April 2011

• Welcome!
  

  Tujia Pulkkinen
  President EGU

  • Video stream (Youtube)
• Practical instructions for the workshop
  

  Carlo Laj
  EGU Committee on Education
• Evolution – The geological point of view
  

  Mathias Harzhauser
  Vienna Museum of Natural History
  Vienna, Austria

  • Presentation (PDF document, 14.8 MB)
• The evolution of segmentation
  

  Guillaume Ballavoine
  Institut Jacques Monod
  CNRS-Université Paris Diderot
  Paris, France

  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.8 MB)
• The human fossil record in the possession of the natural history museum vienna
  

  Maria Teschler-Nicola
  Natural History Museum
  Vienna, Austria

  • Presentation (PDF document, 10.0 MB)
• "Back to the trees" or how to build phylogenetic trees with "Phylogen"
  

  Guillaume Dandrey, Paul Pillot and Jean-Luc Berenguer
  Science teachers in Valbonne
  Sophia Antipolis, France

  • Presentation (PDF document, 927.5 KB)
• The delicate balance between chicxulub impact and/or deccan traps induced mass-extinctions at the K-PG boundary
  

  Jan Smit
  Free University
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 18.8 MB)
• The evolution of insects: a triple jump to success
  

  Günter Bechly
  State Museum of Natural History,
  Stuttgart, Germany

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

• You said…biodiversity?
  

  Gilles Boeuf
  Museum National de Sciences Naturelles
  Paris, France

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 11.2 MB)
• Why is the sea so diverse?
  

  Begoña Vendrell-Simón and Josep-Maria Gili
  Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, ICM-CSIC
  Barcelona, Spain

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 10.1 MB)
• The European space agency and the international environmental conventions
  

  Marc Paganini
  Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes Science, ESA-ESRIN
  Frascati, Italy

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 14.8 MB)
• Natura 2000 in schools
  

  Michael Altmoss
  Office for Environment, Water Resources management and Trade Control (LUDW)
  Mainz, Germany

  • Presentation (PDF document, 4.3 MB)
• Geobiology: cutting-edge research that is expanding the frontiers of science - (LIFE AROUND HYDROTHERMAL VENTS)
  

  Elinor Bartle
  Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen
  Bergen, Norway
• From gift to ECO-schools: a web site to work in international projects
  

  Laurence Durand
  Biology and geology teacher
  Lycée Camille Saint-Saens, Rouen, France

  • Presentation (PDF document, 1.9 MB)
• International earth science olympiad - IESO
  

  Roberto Greco
  Modena and Reggio Emilia University
  Modena, Italy

  • Presentation (PDF document, 15.3 MB)

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

• Understanding evolution - HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
  

  Jennifer Skene
  Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California
  Berkeley, USA

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 3.1 MB)
• Antarctic penguins and climate change
  

  Yvon Le Maho
  Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
  University of Strasbourg and CNRS
  Strasbourg, France

  • Video stream (Youtube)
  • Presentation (PDF document, 6.1 MB)

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