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Geotimes January 2006 Naomi Lubick	Gerald Friedman: Sediment Historian This leader in sedimentology and earth science history can now add to his own list of honors the Legendary Geoscientist Award, given by the American Geological Institute.
Geotimes February 2004 Edward C. Roy Jr.	Assessing Earth Science in Texas In Texas, a group of geoscientists is fighting to restore earth science to the core curriculum of the state's high schools.
Geotimes September 2004 Naomi Lubick	Broadening horizons for students Snee Hall is home to Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Since broadening its subject base in 2002, the department has greatly increased its number of majors.
Geotimes September 2004 Rossbacher & Rhodes	Building Geology for the Future: Cui bono? Academic geology departments are under attack and have been for more than a decade. Now, Geology departments are facing increasing challenges to survive.
Geotimes May 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Geology Department to Close at SUNY-Albany Long on the brink of extinction, geology at the State University of New York at Albany has taken one step closer to the edge.
Geotimes March 2004 Naomi Lubick	University losses at home and abroad Two universities announced the effective closure of their geology research departments in January. The University of Connecticut (UConn) and the University of Basel in Switzerland, cited budget problems among other concerns in announcing the changes.
Geotimes March 2004 Naomi Lubick	Julie Jackson: The quiet public geologist Last fall, the Geological Society of America awarded Julie Jackson their 2003 public service award for her work in communicating geoscience to the public.
Geotimes March 2004	Earth science education in Texas The Texas State Board of Education voted last Friday to redesignate earth science courses from an elective status to a core credit option to satisfy a science requirement in the state's high schools.
Geotimes January 2004 Cynthia Martinez	Earth Science Week in the Limelight The sixth annual Earth Science Week, held Oct. 12-18, promoted understanding and appreciation of the value of earth science research and its applications and relevance to our daily lives.
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri.	Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College.
Geotimes July 2003 M. Ray Thomasson	Cooperating to Lead The American Geological Institute gathered geoscience leaders in Washington, D.C., to find new opportunities for alliance.
Geotimes October 2005 Jon L. Rau	Teaching Urban Geology From the Bottom Up Middle- and High School-level textbooks do not contain sufficient geological data to illustrate interesting problems and natural hazards that are related to local geological urban settings, thus forcing teachers to do their own research.
Geotimes May 2004 Naomi Lubick	Geology Cut in Missouri Southeast Missouri State University in Springfield cut its geosciences degree, along with its geography and sociology degrees, last fall because of budget issues.
Geotimes May 2007	Geomedia Geo Families: How I Learned to Love the Rocks... TV: A twisted vision of geology: Saul of the Mole Men...
Geotimes May 2004 Rossbacher & Rhodes	The Department You Save May Be Your Own: Part II A past director of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), wrote an essay about how to destroy an academic department. Eight years later, a new article laments the fact that the advice is still needed.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Seeing and Speaking in the Field Deaf students and their teachers traveled to the Utah desert to get their first taste of structural geology under the tutelage of Michele Cooke, a professor at the University of Massachusetts an Amherst.
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick	Larry Funkhouser: The "Midwestern" Oil Explorer His career has followed the oil industry from postwar boom through later highs and lows. In April, he received his colleagues' highest recognition, the 2004 Sidney Powers Medal, at the meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in Dallas.
Geotimes March 2004 E-an Zen	The Marriage of Geology and Philosophy This slim volume deals with the public role of earth science in contemporary society. What it has to say should concern not only public-minded earth scientists and those engaged in policy-making, but those who care about the relations between science and the humanities
Geotimes March 2003 Jan Childress	Early Impact: EarthComm Lands in Los Angeles The announcement in December of a partnership to support professional development and provide new classroom materials to the earth-science teachers in its public high schools was welcome news to the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever	Undergrad Forums: It's All About the Process Student Publishing Prospects... Spotlight on Keck... Spotlight on Argonne... Campus Events... Bigger Fish...
Geotimes December 2003 Hatheway et al.	Applied Geology in Service of the Public Welfare Engineering geologists play a crucial role in providing geological information to the public.
Geotimes October 2004 Katie Donnelly	Petrology and Politics This scientist is preparing for her upcoming work in Washington, D.C., as the 2004-2005 Congressional Science Fellow for the American Geological Institute.
Geotimes August 2003 Larry Kennedy	A Geological Path to City Hall A former geology student, John Hickenlooper is now a political legend, the little-known entrepreneur who climbed from single digits in the polls only six weeks before the May election to win it outright.
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick	Paul Bierman: New Landscapes for Teaching This Distinguished Teaching Scholar award recipient uses the landscape images available through his the Landscape Change Program to get students of all ages excited about the local Vermont geology.
Geotimes March 2004	Boost for women geoscientists Numbers of women faculty in the geosciences, though increasing, have remained a concern. New awards hope to increase the numbers of women faculty in science and engineering.
Geotimes March 2007 Lisa Rossbacher	Scouting for Geologists Helping young people learn about geology through earning scouting merit badges should be a much larger outreach effort. All the geoscience professional societies can play a role, as well as college and university geology departments.
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Sarah Ramdeen	Developing Cyberinfrastructure for Earth Science: an Opportunity for Collaboration There is increasing interest and research in how to create the infrastructure necessary to support science data and its use, and the field of Earth Science is joining the conversation.
Geotimes January 2005	Astronaut Geology Field Training The field trips in preparation for moon landings were designed as instruction about the specific landing site. We went to places that we thought would show geologic features and problems similar to those they would encounter on the moon, such as impact craters and volcanic areas.
Insurance & Technology September 27, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	Carrier Confidential: Technology Transformation Puts CUNA Mutual in a Stronger Position CUNA Mutual's IT organization revamped its technology infrastructure, building an agile foundation to help the carrier grow and respond to turbulent market conditions.
Geotimes September 2006 Lisa Rossbacher	Big Lonesome Mountain What makes Gros Morne National Park so special is that its stories match the experience each visitor brings. The more geology you know, the more you will see and the richer the visit will be, but the geology meets all visitors at their own level.
Geotimes April 2005 Peter A. Scholle	Geologic Etiquette in a Mechanized Era Geologists should exercise more considerate choices regarding the rocks they destroy for science.
Geotimes January 2006 Alan Cutler	Time Out of Mind The author's biography of 17th-century geologist Nicolaus Steno makes it clear that the age of Earth is not a cold, technical fact, but an idea woven through science and through modern culture -- and idea that people will always struggle to accept.
Geotimes August 2004	Geomedia Geologic Wonders... Book Reviews: Geology and Health: Closing the Gap... Desert Heat -- Volcanic Fire... The Winelands of Britain: Past, Present, and Prospective... Terroir: The Role of Geology, Climate, and Culture in the Making of French Wines... etc.
Geotimes March 2005 Sara Pratt	Rocky Debate Over Early Life Scientists fail to replicate a 1996 study on 3.85-billion-year-old rocks that pushed back the date of the earliest evidence for life on Earth by several hundred million years.
Geotimes July 2003	Highlights: Discoveries in the Earth Sciences Every year as we compile the Highlights issue, we aim to collect summaries about as many of the earth science disciplines as possible.
Wired March 2007 Jonathan Keats	The Power of Babble MIT researcher Deb Roy is videotaping every waking minute of his infant son's first 3 years of life. His ultimate goal: teach a robot to talk.
Geotimes March 2004	New language for geologic time The Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London (GSL) is calling for a drastic and controversial overhaul of the Stratigraphic Guide, the internationally agreed upon standards for the field of stratigraphy.
Geotimes October 2006 Carolyn Gramling	David Fastovsky: Dinosaur Virtuoso The paleontologist has played the viola in some of the finest dinosaur fossil sites in the world.
Geotimes September 2004 Warren Huff	Hit the Ground Running: Freshman Seminars The University of Cincinnati has instituted its Freshman Year Experience program to increase retention rates for first-year students. A keystone of the program is a geology seminar for new students with no geology background.
Geotimes October 2005	Geomedia Book Reviews: Never Piss Into the Wind by Jules R. DuBar... A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester...
Geotimes August 2003 Lisa A. Rossbacher	Is there a doctor in the house? Geoscientists can help benefit public health. A lot. But if we wait to be asked, we could wait a very long time.
Geotimes April 2004 Rossbacher & Rhodes	The Department You Save May Be Your Own: Part I To stay away from the budget-cutting block, departments must be proactive. Geology faculty and students can do a lot to save themselves by never allowing administrators to think they are expendable.
Information Today May 23, 2013	Elsevier to Integrate GSA Geological Maps Into Geofacets Elsevier announced a collaboration with The Geological Society of America, one of the largest and most prestigious societies serving geosciences professionals worldwide.
Geotimes July 2003 Robert Spoelhof	The Not-So-Retired Life At retirement, geologist Robert Spoelhof finally learns what he wants to be when he grows up.
Geotimes December 2004	GeoFellows in D.C. This year, the five earth science Congressional Science Fellows cover a broad cross-section of the sciences, including planetary geology and even plant biology.
Geotimes November 2007 Lisa A. Rossbacher	You Must Remember This ... Mnemonic devices in the geosciences aren't always politically correct, but they've helped more than one student through an exam.
Geotimes January 2005	Geomedia Forensic Geology on the Small Screen... "Evidence From the Earth," by Raymond C. Murray... "Earth Colors," by Sarah Andrews... South Dakota Mapping...
Geotimes December 2006	Geomedia Books: Hell Creek: 65 Million Years in the Past, the Journey Begins by L.M. Graziano and M.S.A. Graziano... Quarry by Susan Cummins Miller... etc.
Geotimes October 2004	Pedaling D.C.'s monuments A bicycle tour of the Mall in Washington, D.C. highlights the geologic history of the region... Oct. 10 to Oct. 16 is Earth Science Week, organized by the American Geological Institute...
Geotimes May 2006	Geomedia Maps: Mapping the Seafloor for Everyone... Books: Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial... Charles Darwin, Geologist... etc.