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<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal">Are you involving or have you involved pre-service teachers or in-service teachers in geoscience research?</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal">If the answer is “yes,” please consider submitting an abstract to 2014 Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting Topical Session T68 “Involving Pre-Service and In-Service
Teachers in Geoscience Research: Innovations and Strategies for Evaluating Their Success.”
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<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal">I intend to be as inclusive as time constraints permit, so please submit if you are planning to attend 2014 GSA and you have something relevant or related to present on this topic.
E-mail questions to <a href="mailto:Mark.Abolins@mtsu.edu">Mark.Abolins@mtsu.edu</a>.</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal">Abstract deadline: July 29, 2014.</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal">The 2014 GSA Annual Meeting is October 19-22 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal">GSA Geoscience Education Division Topical Sessions (incl. submission form):
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http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2014/sessions/topical.asp?SponsorID=GSA+Geoscience+Education+Division&submit=Go</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Room 322D Kirksey Old Main (KOM)<br>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groupinvite/ATXsqgHz0W_1d0CJRHo25S_rlDJ6Kj3JdH6nuSY63hKQca1Y47bjoibiLvubxdtGcn_G6_myp4DMyQ4cKLlPO13k_OD_RmF7VcL7mg0W-kUqbBuJx3JMGwyY8sqQ1ZXdKhX3-RuZn9W3JwInsCfJFc596yjovRxBTZeeafDEH2ERvb0ZjFmT6VZN3Y_yWCSBFrKv5x8-N2Vj5v-Ua8Dt6feL" target="_blank">MTSU
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Webpage:<a href="http://www.mtsu.edu/~mabolins" target="_blank"> http://www.mtsu.edu/~mabolins</a><br>
Blog: <a href="http://eliageoscience.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://eliageoscience.wordpress.com/</a>
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LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-abolins/3a/a94/a22" target="_blank">
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ELiAgeoscience" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ELiAgeoscience</a><br>
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<a href="http://capone.mtsu.edu/mabolins/REU.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Coordin</span></a><a href="http://capone.mtsu.edu/mabolins/REU.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ator of Geoenvironmental Ch</span></a><a href="http://capone.mtsu.edu/mabolins/REU.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">allenges
REU Site</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
Tennessee Space Grant MTSU Campus Representative<br>
Associate Professor of Geology<br>
<a href="http://www.mtsu.edu/geosciences/" target="_blank">Department of Geosciences</a><br>
Middle Tennessee State University<br>
Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132<br>
Tel: 615-594-4210<br>
Fax: 615-898-5592<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:Mark.Abolins@mtsu.edu">Mark.Abolins@mtsu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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