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What is IYPE?
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Why is it 3 years long?
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What is GSA doing?
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U.S. Events:
- IYPE Lecture Series
- 2008 GSA | SSSA | ASA | CSSA | GCAGS Joint Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 5–9 October
- 2008 NGWA Conference on Easter Regional Ground Water Issues, Ronkonkoma, New York, 23–24 June
- NGWA Geothermal and Horizontal Drilling Forum: Diversification and Cross-Training Strategies, Columbus, Ohio, 25–26 August
- 2008 NGWA/U.S. EPA Remediation of Abandoned Mine Lands Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2–3 October
- NGWA International Conference on Nonrenewable Ground Water Resources, Sociotechnological Aspects of Nonrenewable Ground Water Resources: Half-Empty, Half-Full, Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and Some Paths Forward, Portland, Oregon, 13–14 October
- Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water: Prevention, Detection, and Remediation® Conference, Houston, Texas, 3–4 November
- 2008 NGWA Ground Water Expo and Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2–5 December
- Exhibition: Phenomenal Weather, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 8 March–30 November 2008
- Exhibition: Climate Change: From Snowball Earth to Global Warming, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 28 June–9 November 2008
“The aim of the International Year of Planet Earth is to demonstrate new and exciting ways in which Earth sciences can help future generations meet the challenges involved in ensuring a safer and more prosperous world.”
“The initiative will seek to raise the awareness of the contribution to, and role of, the Earth sciences in society in the minds of politicians, decision-makers, the media, and the general public.”
Flyer
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in Costa Rica.
Education & Research Themes of the IYPE
- Groundwater—Toward sustainable use
- Hazards—Minimizing risk, maximizing awareness
- Earth & Health—Building a safer environment
- Climate—The “stone tape”
- Resources—Toward sustainable use
- Megacities—Going deeper, building safer
- Deep Earth—From crust to core
- Ocean—Abyss of time
- Soils—Earth’s living skin
- Earth & Life—Origins of diversity
Click here for a full description of each IYPE theme.
A prospectus and downloadable brochure on each theme is available at www.yearofplanetearth.org
Participating Organizations and Members of the U.S. National Committee for the IYPE
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- American Association of State Geologists
- American Geological Institute
- American Geophysical Union
- American Institute of Professional Geologists
- Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists
- Geological Society of America
- International Union of Geological Sciences
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Ground Water Association
- North American Committee for Stratigraphic Nomenclature
- Northeastern Science Foundation
- Society for Sedimentary Geology
- Soil Science Society of America
- United States Geological Survey
Earth Science Lecture Series
The U.S. National Committee for the IYPE will be hosing an earth science lecture series in various cities around the country. Click Here for more information.