WINNIPEG GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Winnipeg Section of the geological Association of Canada

Public Awareness

Members of the Winnipeg Section are involved in public awareness of the geosciences. Each year members of the association promote the geosciences in cooperation with the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Geological Survey as well as other geoscience organizations.

• School Visits
  One of the most active areas for the members is school visits. Many students from grades 3 to 12 in the Winnipeg area have partaken in our geoscience awareness program. Topics have varied from rocks and minerals to plate tectonics and earthquakes. Volunteers go to schools to discuss geoscience with students or the students visit the Department of Geological Sciences

• Career Days
  Members of GAC have partcipated in four career days at local high schools. We have set up a booth or made presentations at these career days.
• Curriculum Development
  Members of the local were active committe members in the development of the Manitoba position on Earth and Space Sciences in the Pan Canadian Protocol.

• Science in the Schools
  In 199-2000 in cooperation with Glenlawn Collegiate and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Manitoba members engaged in an active research program incorporating grade 11 and 12 chemistry students. The students became familiar with different analytical methods such as clay mineral analysis using XRD techniques and texturals studies using the SEM, gephysics, mapping, bulk sample, mineral, and water chemistry.

• Engineering and Geoscience Week
  Each year members particpate in an Engineering and Science Week display in Winnipeg.