National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Speakers

Each year, AGU sponsors members of the Union to speak about their research to teachers attending the annual and regional NSTA conventions. At the annual NSTA convention, AGU provides speakers for both the NSTA Featured Lectures and for the Earth and Space Science Resource Day, which is co-sponsored by AGU, the National Association for Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) and the National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA).

AGU has also participated in a collaborate Coalition for Earth Science Education booth in the main exhibit hall, alongside GSA, IRIS, JOI, AGI, and other societies. The following scientists have presented talks on AGU’s behalf at NSTA conventions [*Featured Lectures]:

2008 Annual Convention (Boston, MA)
*Scott Doney (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ): “Ocean Acidification: The Impact of CO2 on the Oceans”
2007 Annual Convention (St. Louis, MO)
Denise J. Reed (University of New Orleans): “Sustaining Coastal Wetlands for the 21st Century: Sediments, Salt, and Sea Level Rise”
2006 Annual Convention (Anaheim, CA)
Tom Jordan (University of Southern California): “Shake, Rattle and Roll: What Should Teachers and Students Know About Earthquakes?”
2005 Regional Conventions (Hartford, CT; Nashville, TN; Chicago, IL)
Johan Varekamp & Ellen Thomas (Wesleyan University): “Human Impact on Long Island Sound: An Urban Estuary”
Harry (Hap) McSween, Jr. (University of Tennessee — Knoxville): “Discoveries of the Mars Rover Missions”
Emile Okal (Northwestern University): “New Insights from the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and Tsunami”
2005 Annual Convention (Dallas, TX)
*Cinzia Cervato (Iowa State University): “Bugs, Isotopes, Magnets, and Orbits — Earth's Clock”
2004 Regional Conventions (Indianapolis, IN; Richmond, VA; Seattle, WA)
Larry Braile (Purdue University): “Recent Advances in Understanding and Predicting Earthquakes and Seismic Hazards in the Midwest”
Courtney Harris (Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences): “Mud, Measurements, and Models”
Michael McPhaden (NOAA-PMEL): “El Nino and La Nina: What’s New with These Children?”
2004 Annual Convention (Atlanta, GA)
*Claudia Benitez-Nelson (University of South Carolina): “Global Climate Change and the Marine Biological Pump; the Role of Phosphorus”
Pamela Burnley (Georgia State University): “How do We Know the Earth is Not Hollow?”
2003 Regional Conventions (Reno, NV; Minneapolis, MN; Kansas City, MO)
Geoff Blewitt (University of Nevada-Reno): “GPS: A modern Swiss Army Knife for Earth Scientists”
Karen Campbell (University of Minnesota): “The Secret Life of Topography: Understanding Sediment Movement on the Earth's Surface”
Michael Underwood (University of Missouri): "Scientific Ocean Drilling and the Seismogenic Zone Experiment”
2003 Annual Convention (Philadelphia, PA)
*Mary Lou Zoback (USGS — Menlo Park): “Grand Challenges in Earth and Environmental Science”
Gene Carl Feldman (NASA GSFC): “Observing Our Living Planet from Space: The SeaWiFS Story”
Steven Graham (SSAI): “A Perspective of Our Planet’s Atmosphere, Land, and Oceans: A View from Space”
Jacques DesCloitres (NASA GSFC):“The MODIS Rapid Response Project”
2002 Regional Conventions (Louisville, KY; Portland, OR)
Katherine Cashman (University of Oregon): “Lessons Learned from the Mount St. Helens Eruption”
Thomas V. Lowell (University of Cincinnati): “The Cold Facts on the Cryosphere and Climate Change”
2002 Annual Convention (Anaheim, CA)
*John Delaney (University of Washington): “An Interactive Earth-Ocean Observatory at the Scale of A Tectonic Plate”
James Garvin (NASA): “Exploring the New Mars: A Decade of Discoveries”
Susan Sakimoto (NASA GSFC): “Volcanoes and Earthquakes: ‘Burps’ from a Cooling Planet”
Richard Summerville (Scripps Institution of Oceanography): “Climate Change: What is at Stake and What Can Be Done About It?”