EDUCATOR’S CORNER


Earth Science News for Classes


Rasoul Sorkhabi, Ph.D., CPG-11981


Dr. Rasoul Sorkhabi is a professor at the University of Utah’s Energy & Geoscience Institute, Salt Lake City. Email: rsorkhabi@egi.utah.edu


Geology courses usually utilize standard textbooks, but textbooks offer the basic information about a discipline and do not include many major or minor developments that have taken place in recent times. Even in the case of very important scientific discoveries there is usually a time lapse of several years for these discoveries to find their ways into textbooks. Sharing interesting news and developments about geological sciences with students indeed makes the teaching more rel- evant to life and society. Particularly students who want to major in geology will thereby gain a clear understanding of cutting-edge research and work in this field. As online teaching is expected to grow in the post-pandemic times, news-related teaching materials are also expected to become more useful for class assignments and term papers. Moreover, as teachers and researchers we all should also educate ourselves about the new developments and discoveries in our science. Thanks to modern telecommunication technologies, there are a vast number of sources and publications that report on science news and new developments. Indeed the sheer number of these sources and publications can be overwhelming. Here we look at some of them.


We can divide science news sources into four categories: (1) Online science news sources; (2) science magazines; (3) science embedded in newspapers and news magazines; and (4) science news related to major scientific organizations.


Online Science News


Geology.com: Geoscience News and Information. Published online since 2005 by Hobart and Angela King. https://geology.com/


Science Daily: “Your source for the latest research news.” Founded in 1995 by Dan and Michelle Morgan. https://www.sciencedaily.com/


Live Science is a science news website started in 2004. Currently run by Future Plc (a British media company) via Purch Group (a New York City-based digital media company). https://www.livescience.com/


Phys.Org is an online portal for science news; published science 2003. It also includes Earth science news: https://phys.org/earth-news/


50 TPG • Jul.Aug.Sep 2020 Science Magazines


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Nature     


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New Scientist  


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