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July 15, 2020
SDGs Today – real-time and timely data for the Sustainable Development Goals
Check out the website http://sdgstoday.org/ and explore to see how you can use this tool and these data with students. We have 10 years left – what data-informed solutions can we advance to meet the SDGs?
December 11, 2018
Dr. G’s #AGU18 Spotlight – The Science We Need for the Ocean We Want
The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is a once in a career (once in a lifetime) opportunity. The decade will not be successful if we have 20,000 individual science papers – we need to think of the big picture, to define the core opportunities, and to deliver the results.
November 19, 2017
The UN Sustainable Development Goals – what they are, why they exist
There is a need to communicate the SDGs, ensuring that more people realize they exist, that the goals are an agenda for developed and developing countries that are universal, integrated, interconnected, inclusive, and science-based. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society – and even faculty and students.
Laura Guertin is a Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at Penn State Brandywine in Media, PA. Her research focuses on how technology can enhance teaching and student learning in introductory-level geoscience courses for non-science majors. Her blog focuses on geoscience education/outreach, science communication, and technology tools in the classroom, online, and in the field.