Thursday, 9 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 342CF

Presiding:

Susan H. Conrad , Kirsten Menking and John A. Conrad

8:00 AM

348-1

Using the Outdoors to Teach Students from Elementary School through College about Surface and Subsurface Water

Michele M. Hluchy, Alfred University

8:20 AM

348-2

Hands-on Approaches to Place-Based Learning about Water Resources through the NSF-BSI GK-12 Program

Monica Z. Bruckner, Montana State University, Bozeman; Jeremy Harder, Ophir School

8:35 AM

348-3

Teaching Introductory Hydrology using the Hobbs Brook Reservoir Wateshed in Eastern Massachusetts as a Case Study

P. Thompson Davis, Bentley College; Anna K. Tary, Bentley College; Edward Dowling, Cambridge Water Department; Peter Varga, Cambridge Water Department

8:50 AM

348-4

Data-Driven Analysis of the Hydrologic Balance

John B. Ritter, Wittenberg University

9:05 AM

Break

9:20 AM

348-5

Concepts and Tools for Outdoor Classrooms to Characterize Soil Water in the Vadose Zone: Applications of Hydrology and Hydrological Geophysics

John F. Hermance, Brown University

9:40 AM

348-6

Incorporating Watershed Studies into the Gustavus Environmental Studies Program

Mark Bjelland, Gustavus Adolphus College; Jeff Jeremiason, Gustavus Adolphus College; Joel Carlin, Gustavus Adolphus College; Laura Triplett, Gustavus Adolphus College; Kathryn Ladig, Gustavus Adolphus College

9:55 AM

348-7

Using Wetlands as a Natural Laboratory In the Middle School Classroom: An Example from the University of Tennessee National Science Foundation GK-12 Program

Jorene L. Hamilton, University of Tennessee; Ann Tillett, Carpenters Middle School

10:10 AM

348-8

Water EducaTion for Alabama's Black Belt (WET): Hands-on Laboratory and Field Exercises for K-12 Students and Teachers

Ming-Kuo Lee, Auburn University; Lorraine Wolf, Auburn University; Kelli Hardesty, Auburn University; Lee Beasley, Auburn University; Jena Smith; Lara Adams; Kay Stone; Dennis Block

10:25 AM

Break

10:40 AM

348-9

Outdoor Classrooms: Development of a Cross Disciplinary, Watershed Based Approach at Binghamton University

Joseph R. Graney, Binghamton University

11:00 AM

348-10

Field-Based Learning “In the Center of It All”: Applied Hydrogeology at ESU's on-Campus Hydrogeology Teaching and Research Station

Marcia K. Schulmeister, Emporia State University

11:15 AM

348-11

The Florida River Project: Using Watershed Monitoring to Teach Introductory Earth Systems Science

Kimberly A. Hannula, Fort Lewis College; Lauren Heerschap, Fort Lewis College; Jeffrey Cary, Fort Lewis College; Ray Kenny, Fort Lewis College; Daniel Newman, Fort Lewis College

11:30 AM

348-12

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