GIFT - Geoscience Information For Teachers (by invitation only)
In 2025, the topic will be: 'Exploring the sea floor’.
08:30–08:45
EGU welcomes GIFT participants with President of EGU + Chair of the Education Committee (EC)
08:45–09:30
"The major stages in the discovery of the sea floor (history of sea floor exploration)" by Angelo Carmelenghi, OGS Trieste, Italy
09:30–10:15
"The expedition « F.A.M.O.U.S » (French American Mid Ocean Undersea Study), 1973-1974, the first-ever marine scientific exploration by manned submersibles of a diverging tectonic plate boundary on a mid-ocean ridge" by Jason P. Morgan,Institute of Marine Science, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Coffee break
10:45–11:15
"Welcome in Bremen Core Repository Collection: A virtual visit at the Core repository at MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen" by Ulrike Prange, ESO Outreach Manager, Team Science Communication at MARUM
11:15–11:35
IODP school of Rock : An Enduring Legacy from Two Decades of IODP programming and apportunities in the U.S and beyond. by Sharon Cooper, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
11:35–12:20
Iceland and the surrounding seafloor, insights into a complex geological system from its origins to the present day by Dr. Rouwen Lehné, Environment and Geology (HLNUG) Department Geology and Soil, Technische Universität Darmstadt
12:20–12:30
Instrutions for the poster session and the hands-on sessions
Lunch break
14:00–15:30
WS 1: Exploring the Ocean Floor: Seeing plate tectonics below the waves by Pete Loader, Pane Perunovski, Dragos Tataru, & Gina P. Correia, EGU Geoscience Education Field Officer (GEFO).
Coffee break
16:15–17:45
WS 2: Copernicus Browser: An open online platform for teaching geography with satellite (Sentinel 2) images by András Zlinszky, Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem
08:30–09:15
Diversity of hydrothermal fluid discharges at the seafloor according to geological context by Valérie Chavagnac, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse - CNRS
09:15–10:00
The seafloor life - Biodiversity of hydrothermal vents by Daphne Cuvelier, Institute of Marine Sciences, OKEANOS, University of the Azores
Coffee break
10:45–11:40
WS 3: Maps Using maps to study the seafloor (paper and digital tools) with geomapapp Presentation of the portal and exercises to calculate seafloor spreading rate (and/or plate motion) from the database by Teresita Gravina and Francesca Funiciello, Education Committee members
11:40–12:30
WS 4: From the seafloor to the classroom: how to engage secondary school students in oceanographic expeditions by Hélder Pereira and Faustine Gendron, Teachers at sea (Lycée des Maisons d’Education de la Légion d’honneur, Saint Denis, France - Escola Secundária de Loulé, Algarve, Portugal)
Lunch break
14:00–14:45
Exploring the deep oceanic lithosphere on land: a field trip in the Oman ophiolite by Georges Ceulener, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse - CNRS
14:45–15:30
Ocean crust in the mountains (ophiolithic series and orogenesis) by Jean Marc Lardeaux, University Cote d’Azur
08:30–09:15
When seafloor disappears in the subduction zone - Plate tectonics and the evolution of subduction zones by João C. Duarte Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
09:15–10:00
Formation of oceanic crust and the tectonic and magmatic diversity of mid-ocean ridges, by Mathilde Cannat, IPGP, France
10:00–10:05
GIFT Certification
Coffee break
10:45–11:30
Formation and preservation of seafloor massive sulfide mineralization along ultraslow spreading ridges: An insight from the Arctic Ocean by Sabina Strmic Palinkas UiT The Arctic University of Norway and University of Bergen
11:30–12:15
The seafloor mineral resources for tomorrow by Clifford Patten, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, Innsbruck University
12:15–12:30
General session & concluding remarks
