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2013 CarbonEARTH Expos

Thanks to all Penn State CarbonEARTH graduate fellows, partner teachers and their students for organizing successful 2013 CarbonEARTH Expos!

The Harrisburg Expo was held May 16 at the Ben Franklin School gymnasium in Harrisburg.
Pictured (l-r): Katie Gaines, Cindy Hart, Kere Washington, Adam Pérez, Matt Johnson, and Christy Rollinson.

The Philipsburg-Osceola Expo ran May 9 at the Philipsburg-Osceola Junior High School gymnasium in Philipsburg.
Pictured (l-r): Carla Rosenfeld, Chris Tekeley, Randy Edelman, Cindy Warming, Mike Szedlmayer, Ashlee Dere, Laura Warner, JD Dulny, Greg Sypa, Andrea Giordano, Beth Wardo, and Brett Diehl.


Penn State CarbonEARTH 2013/14 fellow search closed

NSF CarbonEARTH is no longer accepting fellow applications for the 2013/2014 academic year -- thank you to all who applied. For more information for applying for 2014/2015, please contact Chanda Turner (information below).

About Penn State CarbonEARTH

The CarbonEARTH (Educators and Researchers Together for Humanity) Fellowship Program is part of a 5-year National Science Foundation (NSF) GK-12 grant that teams Penn State Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduate students with elementary and middle school science teachers from Pennsylvania’s Philipsburg and Harrisburg School Districts. The CarbonEARTH program uses the interdisciplinary theme of carbon, broadly construed, as a unifying platform for student investigation, discovery, training and education.

Science educators from Penn State's Center for Science and the Schools, faculty mentors, and partner teachers will guide CarbonEARTH graduate fellows to integrate aspects of their graduate carbon-related research into the classroom. Graduate fellows and elementary/middle school teachers will collaborate to develop innovative open-inquiry science curriculum elements related to carbon -- including energy, matter and materials, earth processes and ecosystems. Overall, the Program aims to broaden the skills of fellows, strengthen students' understanding of science, and broaden teachers' application of science content.

Read more about our Carbon Focal Theme.


For more information regarding the CarbonEARTH program, please contact:


Chanda Turner, Project Coordinator
CarbonEARTH
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Physics
104 Davey Lab, PMB C166
University Park, PA 16802
crt138@psu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 4:00 - 5:00pm



CarbonEARTH Newsletters

Philipsburg-Osceola Spring 2011
Philipsburg-Osceola Spring 2012

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Recent publications/presentations

Szedlmayer, M., Edelman, R., Kidtech GEE Educational Grant, The Zephyrus Weather Balloon Project (2013). Philipsburg Osceola Junior High.

Rosenfeld, C.E., Chaney, R.L., Lanzirotti, A. and C.E. Martínez (2012) Trace metals and soil solids: Effects of soil heterogeneity on Zn mobility. Goldschmidt, Montreal, Canada.

Rollinson, C. R., M. W. Kaye, and L. P. Leites. 2012. Community assembly responses to warming and increased precipitation in an early successional forest. Ecosphere 3(12):122.

Dere, A., R. Stehouwer, E. Aboukila and K. McDonald. (2012) Nutrient leaching and soil retention in mined land reclaimed with stabilized manure. Journal of Environmental Quality. 41:2001-2008.

Diehl, B. 243rd meeting of the American Chemical Society. March 2012. "In vitro evidence of lignin-protein cross links."

Kurland, A. R.; Han, P.; Thomas, J.C.; Giordano, A.N.; Weiss, P.S.; Absorbate-Promoted Tunneling-Electron-Induced Local Faceting of D/Pd{110}-(1 x 2).” J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2010, 1 (15), 2288-2294.

K. Pussi and R. Diehl, "Low-Energy Electron Diffraction", in Characterization of Materials, 2nd Edition, Volume 3, Ed.: E. N. Kaufmann (Wiley, 2012) p. 1841-1853.

Smithwick EAH, Eissenstat DM, Lovett G, Bowden R, Rustad L, and Driscoll C. 2013. Root Stress and Nitrogen Deposition: Consequences and Research Priorities. New Phytologist, Early View.

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