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New Initiatives for Geoscience Education in New Zealand
GRAVLEY, D.M., HIKUROA, D.C.H, BORELLA, M.W., KENCH, P.S., WILSON, C.J.N, and OWEN, S.
The University of Auckland
Geography + Geology + Environmental Science =
The School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science (SGGES)
Earth Systems Study of Science Abroad Program (ESCAPE)
• Take advantage of New Zealand as a natural teaching laboratory
• 5 week field camp with a research component
• 5 month semester within SGGES at University of Auckland
• Research from field camp will continue on campus, i.e. Longitudinal Learning
Talking Points:
• A new educational initiative and model for Earth Systems Study of Science in New Zealand
•Natural vs. Human impact on the environment
•What is “Restoration?”
• Active since about 300,000 years ago• World’s single more frequently active and productive
rhyolite volcano
• 28 eruptions in the last 26,000 years
Taupo the volcano
Natural vs. Human impact on the environment
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1: Fall deposits, 430 km3 bulk volume
… the Oruanui eruption 2: Ignimbrite deposits, 320 km3
bulk volume~530 km3 magma
Lake Taupo
Lake Taupo rose to about 500 m above sea level, impounded by a blockage in the Waikato River valley in the Taupo-Wairakei area
Lake Taupo history: 80 cubic kilometres of water in a single catastrophic flood, and subsequent sedimentation, 26 ka - 14 ka
Matata: May 18 2005: catastrophic rainfall
event generating debris flows
Picture courtesy of the Whakatane Beacon
Bi-directional moa trackways, underprints, ~12 prints
The Human Impact: “Superfund” Site
Mt. Putauaki (Edgecumbe)
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Dump site
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Earth Systems research projects at “Superfund” site:
• What is “Restoration?”
• Longitudinal Learning
• Geology, Ecology, Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Geothermal Energy, Soil Science, Humans
www.frontiersabroad.com
2008 ESCAPE students:
Steven Hochman (Pomona College)
Adam Kotin (Pomona College)
Tim Lambert (Stanford University)
Evan Frye (Franklin & Marshall College)