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Geoscience and Geoscientists: Uniquely Equipped to Study the Earth

Explore the unique approach of geoscience, combining observation and hypothesis testing to study Earth and planetary systems. Gain in-depth knowledge, collaboration skills, and geoscience perspectives to test hypotheses against real-world observations.

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Geoscience and Geoscientists: Uniquely Equipped to Study the Earth

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  1. Geoscience and Geoscientists: Uniquely Equipped to Study the Earth Cathryn A. Manduca Kim A. Kastens The Geological Society of America Special Paper 486, 2012 Earth Educators’ Rendezvous, 2015

  2. Geoscience is defined by its object of study: Earth and planetary systems

  3. Defining a discipline by its reasoning and evidence Interplay between observation and hypothesis testing

  4. Strategies for Testing Hypotheses • Comparing the products of modern processes to those found in the rock record • Studying a series of geographically or temporally specific examples to deduce underlying processes • Developing multiple converging lines of incomplete data • Testing understanding through prediction

  5. Essential Ingredients • In-depth knowledge, skills and the ability to use them to test hypotheses against observations in an area of geoscience • Expertise in Collaboration • Geoscience Perspectives

  6. Geoscience Perspectives • Grounded in observation of the natural system • Understood in the framework of a dynamic, complex Earth system • Reflecting a long history of geologic time in which there are catastrophic  events    • Geographically, spatially and temporally organized

  7. Collaboration is a Central Skill • Studying a series of geographically or temporally specific examples to deduce underlying processes • Developing multiple converging lines of incomplete data Hard to do this by yourself!

  8. A Culture that Supports Collaboration • Common understanding of how to approach the problem • Shared understanding of ways in which data are to be interpreted • Recognition of different types of expertise, value this expertise and make use of it • Shared vocabulary and expectations

  9. A Culture that Supports Collaboration • Common understanding of how to approach the problem: interplay between observation and hypothesis testing • Shared understanding of ways in which data are to be interpreted: strategies for hypothesis testing • Recognition of different types of expertise, value this expertise and make use of it: needed specialties focused on specific case • Shared vocabulary and expectations: perspectives

  10. What defines a geoscientist? • Expertise in Collaboration • Geoscience Perspectives • In-depth knowledge, skills and the ability to use them to test hypotheses against observations in an area of geoscience

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