Florence Wong (center) watches as a student assembles a "Topo Salad Tray" model of the topography of Angel Island (an island in San Francisco Bay). Photograph by Paul Laustsen. |
Earth Science Day 2008 Delights Visitors to the USGS in Menlo Park, California
Many of the displays had coastal or marine themes:
- virtual flights over the sea floor in San Francisco Bay created by computer manipulation of bathymetric data (Pete Dartnell and Jamie Conrad),
- tiny shells of one-celled marine organisms viewed through microscopes (Mary McGann), clear plastic trays marked with contour lines that students stacked to reveal three-dimensional models of an island and a submarine canyon (Florence Wong, Mike Torresan, and Ray Sliter),
- an imaginary dive in the submersible Alvin to view mineral deposits and exotic animals at hot springs along a midocean spreading ridge (Carol Reiss and Randy Koski), ...
- and several displays on tsunamis... [including] a model where students learned about landslide-generated tsunamis by sliding a brick (the "landslide") into a tub of water to trigger a set of waves (the "tsunami") (Eric Geist and Homa Lee).
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Michael D. Carr at the USGS Pacific Science Center, Santa Cruz, California. |
New Chief Scientist for the Western Coastal and Marine Geology Team
Michael D. Carr has become the new Chief Scientist for the Western Coastal & Marine Geology Team. He succeeds Sam Johnson, who will continue with the team as a research scientist. Carr's selection was announced on November 7, 2008, by Acting Southwest Area Regional Executive Mike Shulters.
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