MARGINS Successor Education Planning Workshop Workshop Goals: Review and evaluate impact and effectiveness of existing MARGINS education programs Develop strategic goals and measures for success for next 5 years – where do we want to go with E & O Develop recommendations for specific new education and outreach programs Workshop Outcome – vision statement for presentation at February MARGINS Successor planning meeting

Review of MARGINS Education Programs 1)Distinguished Lecture Program 2)Mini-lessons, hosted on SERC website 3)Graduate student presentation award and forum at Fall AGU 4) Post-doctoral program

Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) Key Facts: Started in 2005 Advertised though listservs, GSA Today, EOS, and brochures sent to approximately 900 colleges and universities. Currently 7 speakers Run through MARGINS Office 330 institutions have applied to the DLP to date 75 institutions have been visited For , 55% of applications (66) were from institutions primarily serving underrepresented student groups The lectures are videoed and power-point presentations are available on the MARGINS web page

Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) Decadal Review Committee Comments: We encourage the Steering Committee to choose one charismatic early career scientist for the Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) each year. We suggest that the Public Lecture of each Distinguished Lecturer is videoed and made available to all, on the website. Each video should permanently remain on the website, leading to a large body of available lectures as the Program matures. We recommend that as part of the application to host a Distinguished Lecturer, the institution should be asked to explain how the Public Lecture will be accessible to a broad and large public audience. The response should be used in the decision making for choosing host institutions. Lastly, we propose that the DLP should expand to include international institutions, especially those who will be collaborating in MARGINS research.

MARGINS Mini-lessons Key Facts : Initially supported by an NSF CCLI grant funded in December 2006 (PIs: Geoff Abers, Cathy Manduca, Jeff Ryan, and Don Reed). The overall goal was to adapt materials produced by the world-class scientists doing MARGINS-related research to lecture segments, laboratory exercises, and teaching modules that could be easily used by teachers to instruct students about current MARGINS areas of research. Five workshops and individual contributions have resulted in a collection of more than 30 mini-lessons that cover the full range of MARGINS science. Additional workshops and sessions at GSA/AGU have focused on data resources and mini-lessons that are in use today. The mini-lessons are externally reviewed by the MARGINS steering committee and end-users. Detailed assessments are being carried out on specific mini-lessons now through the SERC MARGINS minilesson portal:

MARGINS Successor- Strategic goals & measures of success Basic goals of an Education and Outreach program: Make science results and data accessible and engaging to educators and students Increase visibility of breakthrough science and scientists How? Continue existing programs, but better or larger? Reach new audiences? K-12 Teachers Community Colleges Grad student-post-doc-early career linkage Under-represented groups, increase diversity Add an undergraduate research component? Practical considerations – so far, efforts have been volunteer + small MARGINS office effort - is a dedicated staff person(s) needed? Are there other programs/resources that we can link with to enhance our efforts? (IODP, IRIS, COSEE, GLOBE)