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 educational activities are conducted at a national level to meet local curricula standards, teachers and students from ECORD member countries are encouraged to contact ESSAC via the ESSAC Office and ESSAC delegates to participate in.

Below are listed several ECORD and IODP resources and activities available for educators and students.
:: Resources
:: Current Activities
:: Past activities
  • Summer Schools: read the reports written by awarded ECORD students
    • 2007
    • 2008
    • 2009
    • 2010
  • School of Rock: Teachers from ECORD member countries sailed "School of Rock" in 2009 and 2010, a hands-on research-based expedition onboard the JOIDES Resolution organised by the Deep-Earth Academy.
    • SOR 2010 - David Edwards and Jean Noel Puig
    • SOR 2009 - Jean-Luc Bérenguer and Helder Pereira
  • Education and Outreach onboard the JOIDES Resolution: berths for educators or outreach specialists are open during regular scientific expeditions.
    • Ex 327 Juan de Fuca 2010 - Brigitte Thieberge and Jean-Marie Gautier
  • Teachers' Workshop: GIFT & ECORD Teachers' Workshop - Vienna, EGU 2007, April 16-19, 2007
  • Educational activities developed during mission-specific platform (MSP) Expeditions:
    • 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
    • Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) 302 - Aug. 7 - Sept. 15, 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.
  • Educational activities at schools: