Education

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) provides a vast amount of scientific information that is of interest to various groups (see Education pages of the IODP website). As all IODP education activities are conducted at a national level to meet local curricula standards, teachers and students from ECORD member country are encouraged to contact ESSAC via the ESSAC Office and their ESSAC delegate to participate in.
Informations for Teachers I Informations for Students I Informations for Students & Scientists I
:: Teachers' Workshops: GIFT & ECORD Teachers' Workshop - Vienna, EGU 2007, 16-19 April
:: Educational activities developed during mission-specific platform (MSP) Expeditions:
  • Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) 302 - 7 August-15 September 2004: Erik Zetterberg (Sweden) and Kathy Couchon (USA), two teachers at secondary school, have participated in the expedition on board the icebreaker Oden
    >> Read the Reports
    The "Teacher-At-Sea (TAS) programme is an outreach programme where berths for teachers are opened in the IODP expeditions. The main goals of TAS programme are 1) to provide teachers with an opportunity to participate in seagoing research experiences, working side-by-side with scientists, using current state-of-the-art approaches to solve scientific problems of global interest, and gaining first-hand knowledge of the results of seagoing science expeditions, (2) to translate scientific results into useful teaching resources, such as classroom curriculum materials and (3) to distribute these resources to classrooms
    Read more information about the TAS programme during ACEX.
  • Tahiti Sea-Level Expedition 310: Public lectures and a guided tour of the drillship DP Hunter have been organised for high-school students during the portcall in Papeete, Tahiti.
    >> Read the Tahiti portcall activities
:: School of Rock >> more information
:: Educational activities at schools:
:: ECORD Summer Schools 2007, 2008, 2009 and ECORD Scholarships
:: ECORD Distinguished Lecturer Programme: since 2007, the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) sponsors an initiative for a lecture series to be given by leading scientists involved with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).