GeoFORCE

Interesting Science 3: Video of Earth

Eleanour — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:00:22 +0000

Check out this video, posted by Scientific American, of timelapse photos taken from the international space station. You can see cities, roads, the Aurora, and lightening storms. Pretty cool. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/14/the-best-video-of-earth-from-space-ever-made/

Interesting Science 2: An Amazing View from Space

Eleanour — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:34:07 +0000

Check out this picture and article from the New York Times. Yes, a degree in geosciences can have you studying stuff in space too

NASA Detects Planet Dancing with a Pair of Stars, NY Times, Sept. 15, 2011.

Interesting Science 1: Monitoring Groundwater from Space

Eleanour — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:07:13 +0000

Geoscientists do really cool things.

A scientific idea, born at the University of Texas, has come to fruition in an long term study that monitors the depletion of groundwater by using satellites that detect small changes in the earth’s gravitational field. This is high tech geology, folks, and it is applied to something really important. The availability of fresh water dictates where people can live and grow crops. It is the one thing that people absolutely must have to survive. Click on the link to read the whole article.

Groundwater Depletion is Detected from Space Felicity Barringer, New York Times, May 30, 2011.

Slider – Geology

Eleanour — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:55:56 +0000

GeoFORCE surrounds kids in spectacular geology,
encouraging them to pursue college STEM majors, especially in the geosciences.

Houston 10th Grade Academy

Eleanour — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:15:31 +0000

Sophomores fly to Las Vegas, where we hurry past the one-armed-bandits and onto a bus. We’ll drive through Arizona and into Utah on day 1. Then the trip proceeds through Zion National Park, to Glen Canyon Dam, and into the Grand Canyon. We’ll travel most of that way by bus, and several miles in a raft on the Colorado River. After the Grand Canyon, we’ll visit some indian ruins and volcanoes on the way back to Phoenix and home.

Houston 12th Grade Academy

Eleanour — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:13:30 +0000

Seniors fly to Miami and then head out to the Florida Keys, the Everglades, the Gulf Coast, and Cape Canaveral. In addition to great geology, we’ll see all kinds of exotic wildlife including roseate spoonbills, alligators, and manatees; if we are really lucky, we’ll get to see a mama sea turtle laying her eggs. Let’s face it, it is no longer a surprise that the final day is spent at Epcot Center before returning to Texas.

Houston 11th Grade Academy

Eleanour — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:12:01 +0000

Juniors will fly in and out of Portland Oregon. In between they will cross the Columbia River into Washington State to visit Mt. St. Helens, then head up the river to Cascade Locks, climb Mt. Hood (not on foot, silly, in a bus to the timberline and a ski lift to the snow) descend to central Oregon to visit Newberry Crator and Crator Lake, then cross to Eugene (Duck Country) and the Oregon coast, returning to Portland to fly home.

Houston 9th Grade Academy

Eleanour — Mon, 09 May 2011 19:09:20 +0000

Incoming GeoFORCE students start out with a bus trip to Austin, where we will get to know each other and learn a little about geology. Students will stay at the University of Texas in dorms, and we’ll see the campus and the local geology. Then we hop a plane to Tampa Florida, head down the west coast, across the everglades, and out into the keys before flying home to waiting family who will no doubt be missing their kids. Don’t worry, kids, we’ll be having too much fun to get homesick.

Southwest 12th Grade Academy

Edgar — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:20:04 +0000

Southwest 11th Grade Academy

Edgar — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:18:05 +0000