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Logo IESO 2011
The logo chosen aims to represent the main IESO topics. The marble column symbolizes
the connection between art and Earth Science.
The theme of this edition is the Earth Science Renaissance. Italy is famous for the
Renaissance, a cultural movement that grew in Tuscany, Florence, and then spread
all over Europe. It was an important time of intellectual transformation and
widespread educational reform. Even Earth Sciences need a renewal to grow their
importance all around the world as it is happening with the International Year of
Planet Earth. Renaissance age is famous all over the world especially as far as arts
are concerned. There are strong connections between Earth science and art, a lot of
Earth Science Departments are starting to collaborate with archaeologist colleagues
to study the archaeological site, examine the materials used in building, decoration,
monuments. There are Earth scientists dealing with investigating the quarry used in
the past, studying the mineral inside clay and stone. Weathering affects monuments
and buildings as the rocks in the natural environment. This is just to give some
examples.
In Italy there is a huge artistic and cultural heritage. Analysing the link between
art, environment and Earth Science is a new approach never used before, that could
show and focus on new aspects of Earth science.
Logo by Paolo Serventi,
Earth Science Department of Modena and Reggio Emilia University
Cover dragon pictures comes from
IESO-2011 LOGO IDEOGRAM DESCANT
LOGO Author: Huang Sheng-Ting - Article Author: Liao Tzu-Yuan
Printed in Modena · Centro Stampa UniMoRE · March 2012
All Photos are by Deborah Lo Castro unless another author is specified.
Contact: robertogreco01@yahoo.it
You could download this final report, as pdf file, from IESO 2011 website:
www.ieso2011.unimore.it

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our sincere gratitude goes to the Ministry of Education and at the Department of Earth Science of Modena and Reggio Emilia University, for co-hosting and with Fondazione Cassa di
Risparmio di Modena for generously giving their full supports in many ways to ensure the success of this event. Special thanks goes to Mario Petrini of Ministry of Education that create the
best condition to support the work of the organizing committee and to Gemma Fiocchetta, my precious office colleague to the Ministry of Education. We would also like to give our tribute
and grateful thanks to the hundreds of IESO 2011 staffs (togli la s) particularly to Ivana di Biase, Daniela Ricci, Ivana Giova, Davide Milocco and Paola Martinenghi, the local organizing
committee and scientific committee for dedicating tremendous time and efforts working diligently to make this event successful. We would like to thank all the sponsor that support with
money or services. To all of you, we thank you for your contribution to IESO 2011. We wish you all the best in your future endeavours.
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IN MEMORIAM - VIC MAYER
Those of you who knew Vic Mayer will be saddened to hear, of his recent passing on Tuesday 26th July 2011, in Colorado. Some will remember the central role he played in supporting the International
Geoscience Education Organisation through running, with Nir Orion and John Carpenter, the second GeoScience Education conference in Hawaii in 1997 (strongly supported by Rosanne
Fortner). You can read about the Honorary Award given to Vic at that conference at: http://www.geoscied.org/awards/mayer.htm Others will know the key role he played in working with others
in the USA to develop a ‘Framework for Earth Systems Education’ that you can read at: http://earthsys.ag.ohio-state.edu/framework.html . To my knowledge, this was the first attempt to define
the Earth science education we would seek for all children, and so is a key marker in the development of Earth science education across the world. Vic also edited two books on ‘Global Science
Literacy’ - bringing together for the first time in book form, the thoughts of a range of geosciences educators across the world and did a great deal in the USA to support the development of
Earth systems education. Vic has played a vital role in the development of geoscience education across the globe and, whilst it sad indeed to realise that he is no longer with us, it is good to be
able to celebrate the legacy he has left us.
Chris King
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IN MEMORIAM – ANTONIO ROSSI
In the afternoon of Tuesday 2nd August 2011 Professor Antonio Rossi passed away, thus not being able to assist the final part of the International Earth Science Olympiad - IESO 2011, which I
believe, knowing his passion for Earth Sciences and his dedication to teaching students, He would have really enjoyed very much. Antonio, professor of Sedimentary petrography at Modena and
Reggio Emilia University, was one of the greatest experts on Modena Apennine that He loved so much and where He used to bring students for unforgettable lectures given directly on the field.
He participated to three field investigations in Antarctica (1990/91, 1999/00, 2004/05), with the specific role of collecting and filing meteoritic samples (264 discoveries) of Extreme Remote
Camps of the Frontier Mountains (Victoria Land, Antarctica) and of studying sedimentary and volcanic sequences in the Victoria Land Region (Ross sea, Antarctica), also leading to the discovery of
a deposit of fossil tree trunks. Furthermore, in one of the rock samples collected by Antonio during his field campaigns, three new zeolites were identified: gottardiite, terranovaite and mutinaite.
All these findings contributed to further increase a well consolidated national and international scientific reputation.
Among international collaborations, particularly relevant for Antonio were the ones with Universidade do Amazonas (Manaus, Brasil) and the Universidade Federal de Goiás (Goiânia, Brasil).
A significant part of Antonio’s scientific activity involved Karstification and mineralogenesis in hypogeal environment in Greece, Italy, Philippines, Brasil and Mexico, not forgetting however his
studies on metamorphic and magmatic rocks from Greenland.
He was one of the promoters of the Naturalistic Museum ‘Ferruccio Minghelli’ in Pavullo (Modena Province).
Antonio Rossi was in the same research team where I moved my first steps as geology student and I will never forget my first positive impression on his human qualities, his nice mood and his
ability in smoothing down situations, otherwise critically affected by physical and mental stress associated to this kind of investigations. He lived his role of teacher as a mission and his ability
of transmitting emotions to students, while explaining a geological event, and of capturing the attention while detailing a stratigraphic sequence, transformed his lessons in an unforgettable
show, which forged many generations of researchers and technicians, always under his motto “students first of all”. For all these reasons, and for commemorating a respected colleague and a
dear friend, colleagues from the Department of Earth Sciences established this prize, delivered by Antonio’s wife, Marga, during the concluding ceremony of IESO 2011.
Maurizio Mazzucchelli
Marga Rossi, the widow of Professor Antonio Rossi, give a special gift to the best students of IESO 2011 Ryoo Sang Woo
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
05 Preface
06 Executive Summary
Final Report
07 IESO
08 International Earth Science Olympiad – IESO
09 The history of the IESO
11 The International Science Olympiads
12 IESO 2009 Song
14 The evolution of:
Geoscience Education (GeoSciEd), conferences
the International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO)
the International Earth Science Olympiads (IESO) and
the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Commission on Geoscience Education and Technology Transfer (COGE)
19 IESO 2011 Preparatory work
20 IESO 2011 Preparatory work
20 IESO 2011 History Step by Step
22 Online resources to support IESO 2011
23 IESO delegation selection and training: the Italian case
24 Pre-conference
26 IESO – Related Products and Awards
27 Medals
28 IESO 2011 – Certificates
29 IESO 2011
30 Participants list
31 Partecipants IESO 2011
36 Organizing Committee
37 Scientific Committee
38 Staff List
39 Sponsor List
40 Patronage
41 Official speech
47 Schedule and activity
48 Program at a glance
49 Day 1 – Sep 05, Monday
53 Day 2 – Sep 06, Tuesday
58 Day 3 – Sep 07, Wednesday
61 Day 4 – Sep 08, Thursday
64 Day 5 – Sep 09, Friday
66 Day 6 -7 – Sep 10, Saturday – 11 Sunday
68 Day 8 – Sep 12, Monday
71 Day 9 – Sep 13, Tuesday
74 Day 10 – Sep 14, Wednesday
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75 Results and Award
76 IESO 2011 final Award list
83 Right answer rate
Final Report
85 Appendix
86 Statutes
87 Syllabus
93 Written test
129 Practical Test
131 Practical test geosphere
158 Practical test hydrosphere
162 Practical test atmosphere
166 Practical test astronomy
173 International Team Field Investigation
229 Newsletter and Daily News
246 Studying geology at UNIMORE… why not
251 References and useful documents
DVD
DVD 01
Video 1/10 - Welcome dinner, 5 September 2011
Video 2/10 - Opening Ceremony, 6 September 2011
Video 3/10 - Visit at the Salse di Nirano mud volcanoes and Spezzano Castle 6 September
Video 4/10 - Trip to Venice, 7 September 2011
Video 5/10 - Visit a Civil Proction center, 8 September 2011
Video 6/10 - Practical Test, 9 September
Video 7/10 - Excursion to Valle d’Aosta, 10-11 September 2011
Video 8/10 - Schools visit, Plenary session, Terramare di Montale, 12 September 2011
Video 9/10 - Awards Ceremony, 13 September 2011
DVD 02
Deborah Lo Castro Photo Collection of 5th IESO, 5-14 September 2011
DVD 03
IESO 20011 Handbook
IESO 2011 Final Report
Others Pictures
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PREFACE
The International Earth Science Olympiad – IESO, founded by the International Geoscience Education Organization – IGEO http://www.geoscied.org/, is an annual Earth Science Competition for
secondary school students worldwide. The purposes of IESO are to promote Earth Science education internationally, to increase students interests in Earth Science and to raise public awareness of
the current issues of the Earth. The competition covers all the major areas of Earth Science from geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography and astronomy. During the past years, countries
from around the world with a strong emphasis on Earth Science in their national curricula have been very supportive to the competition.
Including the hosting country of Italy, a total of 217 participants and observers from 34 countries registered for the IESO 2011. There were 26 participating countries with student competition
teams including: Australia, Belarus, Cambodia, France, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Nepal, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Singapore,
Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United States of America.
And 8 observing countries: Argentina, Austria, Cyprus, Malaysia, Malta, Norway, Pakistan, South Africa.
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Among the 115 student participants, 71 were male and 44 female (38%). The participants’ average age was 16,8.
It has been a great honour and privilege for Italy to host this significant event. Italy participate ay IESO since 2009 and the organization of IESO 2009 in Taiwan and IESO 2010 in Indonesia were
really helpful to provide experience and inspire ideas. After 10 days of competitions and activities, the 5th IESO has successfully come to an end. Through this event, we have together shared
great memories and learning experiences and established wonderful friendship from around the world. I would like to thank all of you for your participation and contribution to the IESO 2011.
Your involvement in this event has made the IESO 2011 a memorable experience to all of us. Thank you for making IESO an activity more about cooperation than about competition. Promoting
Earth Science Education worldwide has been a life-goal for all of us. Through the IESO 2011, we are one step closer to reaching the goal of developing friendships and establishing collaboration
among the Earth Science communities from around the world.
Once again, we would like to congratulate the winners for the brilliant performances, and to thank everyone for your great effort and contributions to make this event successful. We hope that
through this report, it will help bring back the great memories of IESO 2011.
Thanks again to all of you, and we hope to see you again in IESO 2012 in Argentina.
IESO Local Organizing Committee
March/2012
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The International Earth Science Olympiad – IESO, founded by the International Geoscience Education Organization – IGEO http://www.geoscied.org/, is an annual Earth Science Competition
for secondary school students worldwide. The IESO activity intends to encourage international interaction and cooperation among participating students from all over the world and in turn to
promote public awareness on the importance of Earth Science Education. The 5th International Earth Science Olympiad 2011 was successfully held in Italy from September 5th to 14th http://
www.ieso2011.unimore.it/, with the theme: ‘Earth Science Renaissance: science, environment and art’ in order to reflect the unique Italian artistic heritage we have try show the link between
Earth Science and art and cultural heritage, especially during the practical test that took place inside the city centre of Modena.
IESO 2011 is the first IESO edition host outside Asia, were this competition born in 2007, and the first one where all the continent are represented by team or observers. The number of countries
represented almost doubled from 2010 edition.
Including the hosting country of Italy, a total of 217 participants and observers from 34 countries registered for the IESO 2011. There were 26 participating countries with student competition
teams including: Australia, Belarus, Cambodia, France, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Nepal, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Singapore,
Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United States of America and the 8 observing countries: Argentina, Austria, Cyprus, Malaysia, Malta, Norway, Pakistan, South Africa.
A total of 115 students consisting in 71 were male and 44 female (38%) with an approximate average age of 16,8 participated at the competition.
The Ministry of Education and at the Department of Earth Science of Modena and Reggio Emilia University, for co-hosting and with Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena for generously
giving their full support in many ways to ensure the success of this event. The IESO organization involved 42 people in Local Organizing Committee, 39 in the Scientific Committee, 45 young
universities and school students as staff (4 of them comes from abroad), many others volunteer as the Modena Civil Protection group. All the Italian Earth Science world collaborate for the
success of this event. Several presentation were held around Europe to increase the number of countries participating.
The IESO competition consists of two parts: a written examination and a practical examination. The written test aims to examine the participating students’ understanding of the theoretical
knowledge of Earth Science. The practical examination includes experiments and field tasks designed to evaluate students’ capacity in conducting experiments or solving problems in the field
of Earth Science. The IESO 2011 Practical Test included equipment operation, data analysis, and field survey in the fields of astronomy in the civic planetarium of Modena, atmosphere, and
geosphere test in the Modena city centre and Hydrosphere test in the Venice lagoon.
In addition to the contest activities, related activities such as International Team Field Investigation (ITFI) were organized in the Valle d’Aosta Alps. In order to promote cooperation of team members
from different cultural backgrounds, the ITFI activity regrouped participating students into cross-country teams to conduct field investigations together and to perform group presentations
on the following day in front of the ITFI judges and all the IESO participants. Finally, six outstanding student teams were awarded with the certificates of “Best Cooperation Team”, “Best Creativity
Team” and “Best Presentation Team”.
Next IESO 2012 will be held in Argentina http://ieso2012.gl.fcen.uba.ar/index.php/about-ieso/
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World map: Countries delegation that attend at IESO 2011
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International Earth Science Olympiad – IESO
The International Earth Science Olympiad – IESO, was founded as one of the major activities of the International Geoscience Education Organization – IGEO.
IGEO is affiliated to and sponsored by International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The aims of IGEO are to promote Geoscience education at all international levels, to encourage and
develop the public awareness of Geoscience, especially among young people and to work on the improvement of the quality of Geoscience education all over the world.
The IESO is an annual competition for secondary school students (students not older than 18 years old on July 1st on the year of the Olympiad). The students have to test their skills in all major
areas of Earth sciences, including geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, terrestrial astronomy and environmental sciences. The theoretical examination includes problems which are
supposed to measure the participants’ knowledge and understanding of Earth science areas. The practical examination consists of tasks which are designed to assess participants’ abilities to
carry out scientific investigations in earth science inquiries. The examinations are prepared by specialists in Earth sciences and Earth science education, who also provide solutions and evaluation
guidelines. Each delegation is composed by 4 students and 2 supervisors. The latter must be specialists in Earth science and Earth science education and capable of serving as members of the
International Jury. The official language of IESO is English; however, the supervisors may translate the written examinations and related materials into to the participants’ native language.
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The main aim of the IESO is to encourage students’ interest and public awareness of Earth Science and to enhance Earth science learning. With the IESO the organizers hope to pick out talented
and gifted Earth science students and to promote the improvement of teaching Earth sciences at schools. Last but not least, the IESO is developed in pursuit of encouraging friendly relationships
among young learners from different countries and promoting international cooperation in exchanging ideas and materials on Earth sciences and Earth sciences education.
The IESO is the only International Olympiad that includes an International Team Field Investigation – ITFI. The last International Team Field Investigation focused on: developing stratigraphic
sequences, evaluating living on the Mt. Mayon volcano, and evaluating the fault escarpment of the Chi-Chi earthquake. In 2010 in Indonesia the International Team Field Investigation focused
attention on sustainability and use of the underground water. Thus, ITFI turns out to be a special IESO tool to encourage friendly relationships among young learners from different countries and
to promote international cooperation.
IESO Coordinating Committee, as decided at last Meeting, 2011 Sep. 20, in Yokyakarta
full members: Hendra Amijaya, Roberto Greco, Ken-ichiro Hisada, Tom Tailer, Moo Young SONG, Chun-Yen Chang, Miguel Cano, Shankar Rajasekharaiah, Chan-Jong Kim
deputy members: José Sellés-Martínez, Nir Orion, Dwikorita Karnawati, Afia Akhtar, Allen Munro, Cevior Juan, Muller
IESO advisory commitee, President Sylke Hlawatsch.
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The history of the IESO
The idea of the International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) was suggested by several Korean earth scientists before 2003. In 2003, Korean Earth Science Society (KESS) organized the first Korean
Earth Science Olympiad (KESO). The second (2004) and the third (2005) KESO were organized successfully.
The IESO was established as one of the major activities of the International Geoscience Education Organization (IGEO), during the International Council Meeting held in Calgary, Canada. The
Meeting was part of the Fourth International Conference on Geoscience Education (GeoSciEd IV) in April 2003.
During IGC32 held in Florence, Italy in August 2004, Eduardo de Mulder and Ted Nield of the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) management team agreed to support IESO as one of the
activities of the IYPE.
Seoul IESO Conference was held in November 2004 in Seoul. Representatives from ten countries participated and discussed the earth science curricula and a desirable format of the IESO. There
were made 23 presentations and the IESO Coordinating Committee was established. It was composed by 11 members including the Chairperson, Moo Young Song. The IESO Committee was
renamed the IESO Advisory Committee later on. The Statutes for the IESO were also finalized.
During the first meeting of the IESO Coordinating Committee, held during the Seoul Conference, it was concluded that Korea offered the best conditions and the most favourable atmosphere
for hosting the first IESO. The efforts of the Committee combined with a great personal contribution of Prof. Moo Young Song resulted in the first International Earth Science Olympiad that took
place in Korea in 2007.
In 2005 the IESO Syllabus Commission (Chairperson: Nir Orion) was established and the first draft of the IESO Syllabus was elaborated. The IESO logo was designed and approved by the IESO
Advisory Committee in March 2006
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2007 – 1st edition – Republic of Korea, topic: Earth for Life, Universe for future Life
2008 – 2nd edition – Philippine, topic: Cooperation in Addressing Climate Changes
2009 – 3rd edition – Taiwan, topic: Human and Environment
2010 – 4th edition – Indonesia, topic: The Present is the Key to the Future
2011 – 5th edition – Italy, topic: Earth Science Renaissance: Science, Environment and Art
2012 – 6th edition - Argentina, topic: Energy, water and mineral for sustainable development.
2013 – 7th edition – India
2014 – 8th edition – USA
2015 – 9th edition – Russia
host countries: Map of the countries that host (dark green) or will host (light green) IESO editions.
The IESO is the only science school for secondary students more than 15 years old founded outside of Europe.
Till 2009 the IESO was held only in Asia and the majority of the countries involved comes from that area. One of the goals to have a IESO edition in Europe in 2011 was to involve more countries
world wide.
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Tab.1 List of the countries that attended previous IESO editions
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The International Science Olympiads
The International Science Olympiads are worldwide annual or bi-annual competitions in several science topics. Usually the best 4-6 high schoolstudents (15-20 years old) from each country
take part in them.
Even junior students Olympiads exist: International Junior Science Olympiad and even some Olympiads in humanistic area such as:
International Philosophy Olympiad
International Linguistic Olympiad
The science Olympiads are separate competitions, each one with is own organization. The main aims of science Olympiads is to promote career in science and even to challenge brightest students
around the world and to compare the various teaching systems of each country.
The science Olympiad interest born in Europe but move to Asia. As is possible to read in Table 2 till 200 7 science Olympiad born in Europe. From 2000 3 science Olympiad born in Asia. Host an
international Olympiad need a great organization and set a new one even more for the lack of previous experience and the need to plant everything for the first time. That means that a strong
motivation and a strong effort are necessary to set a new one so look like important notice this shift on the set of new Olympiads that means an increase of focus in science education in Asia.
This shift is confirmed even in the number of times that scientific Olympiads are held in each continents. From Table 3 is possible to see that almost 56% of all the science Olympiad were held in
Europe, but if we consider the last 10 years (2001-2010), Table 4, this percentage down to 32%, instead in Asia the percentage up from 30% to 49%.
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The evolution of:
Geoscience Education (GeoSciEd), conferences
the International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO)
the International Earth Science Olympiads (IESO) and
the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Commission on Geoscience Education and Technology Transfer (COGE)
By Chris King, Keele Uiversity
Summary
The sections below comprise:
a timeline of GeoSciEd conferences, IGEO and IESO meetings and development
a GeoSciEd conference section
an International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO) section
an International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) section
an International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
Commission on Geoscience Education and Technology Transfer (COGE) section
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GeoSciEd Conferences
1990 – Formation of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Commission on Geoscience Education and Training (COGEOED)
· Senior Officers:
Chair: Gerry Cooray
Secretary/Treasurer: Dorrik Stow
Newsletter Editor: John Carpenter
1993 - The first geoscience education conference:
International Conference on Geoscience Education and Training
· Dates: 20th – 24th April, 1993
· Venue: University of Southampton, UK
· Main sponsors: the Association of Geoscientists for International Development (AGID) and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Commission on Geoscience Education and
Training (COGEOED)
· Additional sponsors: ICSU, ASE (International), ESTA (UK), Geological Society, Geographical Association, BGS plus a wide range of financial sponsors
· Conference convenor: Dorrik Stow (UK); theme convenors:
Geoscience education in schools: Chris King (UK) and David Thompson (UK)
Higher Education: Bill Gaskarth (UK) and Brian Daley (UK)
Geoscience Training for Business, Industry and Public Service: Tony Reedman (UK)
Public understanding of geoscience: Ian Sutton (UK)
· Abstract volume: published by the Geology Department, University of Southampton, UK, 1993
· Proceedings volume: Geoscience education and training, ed. DAV. Stow and GJH. McCall, Balkema, Rotterdam, 1996.
· Notes:
David Thompson, Nir Orion and Chris King met in a small café to discuss the development of an international association.
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1997 – GeoSciEd II
· Dates: 28th – 31st July, 1997
· Venue: University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawai’I, USA
· Conference convenors: John Carpenter (USA), Vic Mayer (USA), Nir Orion (Israel), Frank Ireton (USA) Laure Wallace (USA)
· Proceedings volume: Conference proceedings: second international conference on Geoscience Education, Ed. Fortner, W. and Mayer, M., Ohio State University, USA, 1998.
· Support for production and distribution of Proceedings volume provided by:
National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources (US)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Mission to Planet Earth programme (US)
Conference registrations
The Ohio State University, School of Natural Resources and Office of Applied Communications
The Alphyl Memorial Endowment Fund of the Ohio State University, a fund established in honour of Victor C. and Phyllis C. Mayer.
· Awards for lifetime service to geoscience education:
Yolanda Alba de Gonzales (Venezuela)
Victor J. Mayer (USA)
Emmanuel Mazor (Israel)
David Thompson (UK)
· Notes:
A group of geoscience educators met in a small restaurant (Uncle Billy’s Hilo Hideaway) in a rainstorm to formalise a proposal for an international association, prompted by Nir Orion.
This proposal was put to the general assembly at the conference, and was enthusiastically endorsed.
This was the formal beginning of an international association for earth science education.
Nir Orion and Chris King agreed to lead a development committee that would, among other things, determine the name of the association
Later, having discussed different names, including the International Geoscience Education Association (IGIA), the name of the new association was eventually agreed as the International
Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO).
2000 – GeoSciEd III
· Dates: 16th – 21st January, 2000
· Venue: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
· Major sponsor: Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO)
· Conference convenors: Malcolm Buck (Australia), Ian Clark (Australia), Gary Lewis
(Australia)
· Abstract and Proceedings volume: 3rd international conference on geoscience
education: abstract volume. Ed. Ian Clark, AGSO, Canberra, 2000.
· Award for lifetime service to geoscience education:
John Carpenter (USA)
· Notes:
The International Geoscience Education Organisation name was formally approved.
IGEO Chair elected: Chris King.
Later, the IGEO logo, website and constitution were developed.
2003 – GeoSciEd IV
· Dates: 10th – 14th August, 2003.
· Venue: University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
GeoSciEd IV delegates at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaentology, Drumeler, Alberta. Photo: Alan Morgan
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· Major sponsors: IGEO, EnCana Corporation, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Educational Trust
· Conference convenors: Alan Morgan and Godfrey Nowlan
· Abstract and Proceedings volume: Earth science for the global community: conference proceedings. Ed. The GeoSciEd IV organising committee, Calgary, Canada, pp257, 2003.
· Awards for lifetime service to geoscience education:
Gerry Cooray
Ward Neale
· Notes:
IGEO Chair elected: Ian Clark (Australia).
The IGEO contribution to the forthcoming 32nd International Geological Congress in Florence, Italy in 2004 was planned.
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2006 – GeoSciEd V
· Dates: 18th – 21st September, 2006.
· Venue: University of Bayreuth, Germany.
· Major sponsors: IGEO
· Conference convenors: Sylke Hlawatsch (Germany),Gabriele Obermaier (Germany), Ulrike Martin (Germany)
· Abstract volume: Geoscience education: understanding system Earth. Volume 48, the German Society of Geosciences,
Hannover, 2006.
· Proceedings volume: Abstract volume of GeoSciEd V, 96. Hannover: Schriftenreihe der Deutchen Gesellschaft
für Geowissenschaften SDGG.
· Notes:
IGEO Chair elected: Chan-Jong Kim (Korea).
Plans were presented for the 1st Earth Science Olympiad, to be held at Seoul National University in Korea
in October 2007.
GeoSciEd V delegates. Photo: Alan Morgan
Presentations were made to host GeoSciEd V by India and South Africa; South Africa was chosen.
Later the Senior Officers decided that IGEO should support:
the International Conference for Global Development (GeoDev) to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on the 26th – 31st October, 2009 and
the Joint Assembly of Geoscience Organisations in the Americas, to be held at the Iguassu Falls, Brazil, on the 8th - 13th August, 2010.
2010 – GeoSciEd VI
· Dates: 30th August – 3rd September, 2010.
· Venue: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
· Major sponsors: IGEO
· Conference convenor: Ian McKay
· Abstract volume: Geoscience education/developing the world. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa, 2010.
· Notes:
IGEO Chair elected: Sylke Hlawatsch (Germany).
The IGEO contribution to the forthcoming 34th International Geological Congress in Brisbane, Australia, in
2012 planned.
A presentation was made by India to host GeoSciEd VI, which was approved.
GeoSciEd VI - IGEO Senior Officers Photo: Alan Morgan
International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO)
1997 The formation of an international geoscience education association proposed and endorsed
Chairs of the association development committee: Nir Orion and Chris King.
2000 International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO) formed (Sydney, January 2000).
First General Meeting.
Senior Officers, 2000 - 2003:
Chair: Chris King (UK).
Newsletter editors: Laure Wallace (USA) and Mary Dowse (USA)
IGEO logo, constitution and website developed.
2003 Second IGEO General meeting (Calgary, August 2003)
Second IGEO Council meeting (Calgary, August 2003)
Senior Officers, 2003 - 2006:
Chair: Ian Clark (Australia)
Vice-Chair (retiring): Chris King (UK)
Vice-Chair (elect): Chan-Jong Kim (Korea)
Secretary/treasurer: Alan Morgan (Canada)
Newsletter editor: Bronte Nicholls (Australia)
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2004 Third IGEO Council meeting (Florence, Italy, August 2004)
2006 Third IGEO General meeting (Bayreuth, Germany, September 2006)
Fourth IGEO Council meeting
Senior Officers, 2006 - 2010:
Chair: Chan-Jong Kim (Korea)
Vice-Chair (retiring): Ian Clark (Australia)
Vice-Chair (elect): Sylke Hlawatsch (Germany)
Secretary/treasurer: Alan Morgan (Canada)
Newsletter editor: Bronte Nicholls (Australia)
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2008 Fifth IGEO Council meeting (Oslo, Norway, August 2008)
2010 Fourth IGEO General meeting (Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2010)
Sixth IGEO Council meeting (Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2010)
Senior Officers, 2010 - 2014:
Chair: Sylke Hlawatsch (Germany)
Vice-Chair (retiring): Chan-Jong Kim (Korea)
Vice-Chair (elect): Shankar Rajasekharaiah (India)
Secretary: Roberto Greco (Italy)
Treasurer: Gabriele Obermaier (Germany)
Newsletter editor: Bronte Nicholls (Australia)
International Earth Science Education Olympiads (IESOs)
1st Earth Science Education Olympiad
Dates: 21st – 29th October, 2007
Venue: Daegu and Youngwol, Korea.
Convenor: Moo Young Song
Number of participating countries: 8
Chair of the IESO Advisory Committee: Chan-Jong Kim
Chair of the IESO Coordinating Committee: Moo Young Song
2nd Earth Science Education Olympiad
Dates: 31st August – 8th September, 2008
Venue: Manila and Bicol, the Philippines.
Convenor: Miguel Cano
Number of participating countries: 7
Chair of the IESO Advisory Committee: Chan-Jong Kim
Chair of the IESO Coordinating Committee: Moo Young Song
3rd Earth Science Education Olympiad
Dates: 14th – 22nd September, 2009
Venue: National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Convenor: Chun-Yen Chang
Number of participating countries: 14
Chair of the IESO Advisory Committee: Chan-Jong Kim
Chair of the IESO Coordinating Committee: Moo Young Song
4th Earth Science Education Olympiad
Dates: 19th – 28th September, 2010.
Venue: Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Convenor: Hendra Amijaya
Number of participating countries: 18
Chair of the IESO Advisory Committee: Chan-Jong Kim
Chair of the IESO Coordinating Committee: Moo Young Song
5th Earth Science Education Olympiad
Dates: 5th – 14th September, 2011.
Venue: Department of Earth Science of Modena and Reggio Emilia University, Modena, Italy.
Convenor: Roberto Greco
Number of participating countries: 34
Chair of the IESO Advisory Committee: Sylke Hlawatsch
Chair of the IESO Coordinating Committee: Moo Young Song
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The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
Commission on Geoscience Education and Technology Transfer (COGE)
The Commission was formed in November, 2004 in Boulder, Colorado with the following membership:
Gary Lewis - Commission chairperson (Geological Society of America - USA)
Wesley Hill - Commission secretary and treasurer (Geological Society of America - USA)
Chan-Jong Kim (Seoul National University - South Korea)
Greg McNamara (Geological Society of Australia - Australia)
Alan Morgan (Waterloo University - Canada)
Chris King (Keele University - United Kingdom)
Hans Albert Dahlheim (Germany)
Ian Clarke (University of Adelaide - Australia)
The first IUGS-COGE Commission Photo: Alan Morgan
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The website was developed at: http://www.geoed.com.au/IUGSeducation/indexcomm.html by Greg McNamara.
Membership from 2011 onwards:
Jesús Martínez Frías - Chair (Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
Chris King – Vice Chair (Keele University - United Kingdom)
Jennifer Nocerino (Secretary/Treasurer – Geological Society of America)
Miguel Cano (Bicol University - Philippines)
Ian Clarke (University of Adelaide - Australia)
Ochir Gerel Mongolian University of Science & Technology, Mongolia)
Chan-Jong Kim (Seoul National University - South Korea)
Gary Lewis (Geological Society of America)
Greg McNamara (Geological Society of Australia - Australia)
Alan Morgan (Waterloo University - Canada)
Adriana Niz (National University of Catamarca, Argentina)
R Shankar (Mangalore University - India)
Ashvin Wickramasooriya (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka)
The latest website can be found at: http://www.iugscoge.com/ and is still hosted by Greg McNamara.
Future plans for:
Geoscience Education (GeoSciEd), conferences
the International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO)
the International Earth Science Olympiads (IESO) and
the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Commission on Geoscience Education and Technology Transfer (COGE)
Jesús Martínez Frías – IUGS-COGE Chair
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IESO 2011 Preparatory work
The Italian involvement in IESO organization begun with the participation in IESO 2009 in Taiwan, as it was the first selected European team to attend this event. In the same occasion the IESO
coordinator professor Moo Young Song asked to the Italian delegation about the possibility to organize IESO 2011 in Italy. One of the reasons of this proposal was to involve more European
countries in IESO. The first three IESO editions were held in Asia with a major participation of Asian countries, and the move from Asia to other continent was really important to increase the
participation of other countries from all over the world.
European countries are used to attend massively the science Olympiad and that is important especially for a new Olympiad as IESO to grow the number of participant and the international
dimension. By the way Earth science teaching is not homogeneously taught in Europe and that could affect from one side the possibility to participate at IESO from one side, from the other
side could be the opportunity to spread a new science education model and syllabus all over Europe and help to raise the curricula in the country with poor tradition in Earth science education.
Earth science in Europe is taught broadly as follows:
· a small compulsory part of national science curriculum in southern Europe, where is part of natural sciences and generally taught by biology specialist;
· in the UK it is mostly allied to the chemistry part of the science curriculum and is generally taught by chemistry specialist;
· a small compulsory part of national geography curriculum, e.g. In many northern European Countries, such as Germany and Denmark.
· in some countries as Portugal and UK some students could follow additional optional geosciences courses, of a year or longer duration (King, 2008).
IESO could help in the growing of awareness and importance of Earth Science in European national curriculum. By the IESO organization the national Ministry of Education could realize that
Earth Science could be useful to develop an integrated science approach because to solve IESO test is necessary to use in a contextualized situation previous knowledge even on math, physics,
chemistry, geography and some times even life sciences. So the approach by the use of System Thinking (Orion, 2007)
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Italy has already experience in guest international science Olympiad, indeed Italy guest 3 of the actual ten science Olympiad:
1993, Perugia, International Chemistry Olympiad – ICHO
1999, Padova, International Physics Olympiad – IPhO
2008, Trieste, International Astronomy Olympiad – IAO
When the proposal of hosting IESO 2011 arrived, the organization of International Olympiad in Informatics – IOI 2012 in
Sirmione was already in progress.
IESO 2011 History step by step
1st Find the Local Organizing Committee
March 2010 - Constitution of the first embryo of Local Organizing Committee: Daniela Fontana, Director of Earth Science
Department of Modena and Reggio Emilia University, according with the Rector of Modena and Reggio Emilia University
decide to start to organize IESO.
The Local Organizing Committee is made by Earth science expert of Earth Science Department of Modena and Turin University
and also Ministry of Education delegate, Valle d’Aosta Region, Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, ISMAR CNR.
The 5th IESO is supported even by Italian Earth Science Federation – FIST, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca
Ambientale – ISPRA, Italian Commission International Year Planet Earth. and send a letter to the Minister of Education
asking for support.
2nd Find the place
After a quick survey the Local Organizing Committee decided for Modena as a city to host IESO the 5th IESO edition. Modena
is a small city of 183.000 citizens, in the north of Italy. It’s settled in the Padania plan, this plan grow by the sediments
brought by the surrounding mountain by Po river and its affluents. It’s at 34 meters above the sea level and surrounded by
two rivers: Secchia and Panaro. Modena territory in the north is all plain, in the south it shifts from plains to hills and then
to mountains till the maximum height of Monte Cimone at 2165 meters above sea levels. Modena is province (county) seat
and is settled in the Emilia Romagna region bordering the famous Tuscany. It is world famous for Parmiggiano Reggiano
cheese, Balsamic Vinager (Aceto Balsamico di Modena), and Ferrari and Maserati cars: both produced in the city. There is
also an important tiles manufacturing district in Modena province that exports tiles all over the world and employs many
geologists in quarries and in clay analysis.
Modena was chosen as IESO location because there is a Earth Science department interested in Earth Science Education
and in IESO organization and because it’s a quiet city, close to the Bologna International Airport Guglielmo Marconi, just
40 minutes drive from Modena. Bologna airport is well connected to 49 international destinations and 6 intercontinental
destinations.
Choosing the IESO date the organizer took care to avoid religious holidays and set the Olympiad before the beginning of the
main university activities, usually 15th of September, with the purpose to use the university structure for the competition
and the students house to host the students’ teams. September in Modena is autumn season but still quite warm, the
average temperature is between 25 and 16 degrees Celsius and usually around 50 mm of rain fall this month.
4th The theme
The theme of this edition is the Earth Science renaissance. Italy is famous for the Renaissance a cultural movement that
grew in Tuscany, Florence, and then moved through Europe. It was an important time of intellectual transformation and
widespread educational reforms. Even Earth Sciences need a renaissance age to grow is importance all around the world as
it start to do with the International Year of Planet Earth. Renaissance age is famous all around the world especially for the
arts. There are strong connections between Earth science and art, a lot of departments of Earth science start to collaborate
with archaeologist colleagues to study the archaeological site, to study the material used in building, decorations, monuments.
There are Earth scientists involved in finding the quarry used in the past studying the mineral inside clay and stone.
Weathering affect monument and building us the rock in place. This just to give some examples.
Italy is rich of arts and analyse the link between art, environment end Earth Science is a new approach never used in
previous IESO editions that could shine light on new aspects of Earth science.
Ministry of Education Mariastella Gelmini received the IESO 2011 T-shirt during a ceremony at the
Accademia dei Lincei, Rome (Photos Fedor Getman).
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5nd Find the Money
Organize such kind of events needs a lot of money, the budget of IESO 2011 was approximately of
500.000,00€ but several services were provided for free as service sponsorship and almost all the people
involved in the organization work as volunteers. The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia give human
resources, the place for the test and the place to guest the students delegates for free. The 4th of November
2011, the Italian Ministry of Education in a public ceremony, after receiving the t-shirt with the IESO2011
logo by the IESO 2010 Italian team, announced that IESO 2011 will be hosted by Italy. After this announcement
the Minister of Education funded IESO 2011 as the main sponsor and actively collaborate even with
human resources and technical support.
Another important sponsor of this edition was a local Fundation, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena.
Then with several minor sponsors and the delegation registration fee it was possible to reach the necessary
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6th Involve new countries
The strategies used by Local Organizing Committee to increase the number of countries that will attend at
IESO 2011 were:
to send mail to all the mentor that attend at past IESO editions;
send mail to all IGEO members;
send mail to all the GeoSciEd VI participants;
send mail to the mentors of others scientific Olympiads;
send mail to International Council of Associations for Science Education;
send mail to all the teachers that attend previous edition of Geoscience Information for Teachers - GIFT workshop at European Geological Union - EGU Assembly
announcement in IUGS E-Bulletin No 58 December 2010
direct mail to personal contacts;
presentation of 5th IESO distribution of leaflet at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December 2010;
presentation of 5th IESO the 2-6 April 2011 at Geoscience Information for Teachers - GIFT workshop at European Geosciences Union - EGU General Assembly;
presentation of 5th IESO the 19 of May at Geology at different education levels in Europe in Budapest (Hungary) organized by European Federation of Geologist
presentation of 5th IESO the 30 June – 2 July 2011 at Geology and Civilization conference in Saint Petersbourg (Russia);
presentation of 5th IESO the 19 of August at the Geosciences Institute of the Campinas State University (San Paulo State, Brasil).
Aldo Tomasi Rector of Modena and Reggio Emilia University meet Giovanni Biondi Head of the management of human
and economic resource Department of the Ministry of Education (Photo by Roberto Greco)
In order to involve new countries and get new contact we largely advertise the IESO 2011 website and we try to have a really active IESO 2011 facebook page.
7th Scientific Committee and Staff
In the early months of 2011 a scientific Committee was settled in order to prepare the Olympic test. The Scientific Committee member comes mainly by the local Modena Earth Science Department
and even from many scientific institutions from all over Italy. The Committee ask and receive question even from abroad.
The call for staff volunteers was made at the beginning of 2011 and answers mainly university students, schools students that attend IESO in previous editions and their friends and school mate
and even 4 volunteer from abroad 2 from Taiwan that attend IESO 2009 as staff and 2 from Romania that attended IESO 2010 as students.
8th Logistic organization
Logistic organization was made mainly by staff based in the Ministry of Education in Rome and by the administrative staff of Modena and Reggio Emilia University and ITIS Corni School, with
the collaboration of Organizing and Scientific Committees.
Press Conference
On September 2nd 2011 at the Rettorato of Modena and Reggio Emilia University a press conference was held where the local organizing committee delegates presented to the local radio,
television and newspapers the starting of International Earth Science Olympiad.
Foto press conference Pictures of Giovanna Occhipinti
Training staff
The staff volunteer where trained from the 1st to the 4th of September. During this training times the staff received information about the events, the participants, and simulations of the
activities were held while the logistic organization was developed. The staff collaborated even in the Gadget preparation
Foto training Staff Pictures of Roberto Greco and Deborah Lo Castro
Press Conference
(Pictures by Giovanna Occhipinti)
Training Staff
(Pictures by Roberto Greco)
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Online resources to support IESO 2011
Website: http://www.ieso2011.unimore.it/
Website it’s a really useful and basic instrument to share information and documents
and even the new about the event itself.
IESO 2011 website from
when it was open till February
2012 get almost
99.300 total view, the
busiest day was the 14th
of September 2011 with
6.123 view. Almost half of
the views comes from September
month.
In the website is possible
to find documents as: Syllabus,
Statutes, IESO test
from 2007 to 2011. Schedule, pictures, video, Local Organizing and Scientific Commitee list, Sponsor, Patronage, information about
Modena, Registration form, list of the participants, press release in italian and in english, useful links, contacts, the final award list.
It’s made with WordPress and organize in 62 pages with 27 posts.
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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ieso2011/165345666825167
We get 591 people that support this facebook pages, that they have approximately others 320.000 friends that by them get in contact with IESO. Almost 128.000 contact from January to
November 2011 with a peak of 200 viewer for day during IESO.
Vkontakt: http://vk.com/club23728813
It’s quite spread in russian language communities. It was not really develop for this IESO edition as just 13 people get member but could be useful to develop it in next edition with the purpose
to involve new countries that speak russian.
witter https://twitter.com/#!/IESO2011
Even in Twitter was open an accounts as IESO 2011 but not really used.
Youtube
The following video made by tvunimore, a video service provider of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. These
videos are inside the IESO 2011 website and even in you tube
5 September Welcome dinner: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=VE8sHfgEhO0&feature=relmfu
6 September Open Ceremony: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=tpP9EcF8yic&feature=relmfu (1798 view till March 2012)
6 September Visit at the Salse di Nirano mud volcanoes and Spezzano Castle:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=trTx0ISEA9A&feature=relmfu
7 September, Trip to Venice: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=rBXeBug4GnE&feature=relmfu
8 September Visit a Civil Proction center: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=HYMTunS32go
9 September, Practical Test: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=SD0l6q_REko&feature=relmfu
10-11 September, Excursion to Valle d’Aosta: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=HU2aguwy0Qs&feature=relmfu
12 September, Schools visit, Plenary session, Terramare di Montale: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ehmFGCmQrg4&feature=relmfu
13 September, Award Ceremony: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=FnHFeqeJRP0
5-14 September, full video: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=6y5LWccrSEM&feature=relmfu (864 view till march 2012)
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IESO delegation selection and training: the Italian case
One of the obstacles for new countries to attend the IESO is to start the national selection program. The following one is the description of the Italian national selection program for IESO. The
Italian national selection is done by the Italian Natural Science Teachers Association, Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti di Scienze Naturali- ANISN, www.anisn.it ). This association was founded
in 1979 and counts around 1000 teachers as members, mainly teachers of secondary school. Most of the members have degrees in biology, natural science (this has followed academic courses
of biology and geology) and a small part in geology. Natural science teachers in Italy have to teach math and all the sciences at pupils of 10-13 years old and mainly biology, Earth science and
chemistry (sometimes even geography) at pupils of 14-18 years old.
From 2000 ANISN organize the national natural sciences Olympiad and year by year develop the following structures: the same organizer manage two competition one that selects students for
International Biology Olympiad -IBO and the other one for IESO. There are two categories in the competition shared at the moment by age
A) 14-15 years old: questions on Earth science and life science;
B) 16-18 years old: question only in life science.
A categories give access to IESO
B category give access to IBO - International Biology Olympiad
ANISN decided to select students for IESO and IBO in that way because in the Italian School Earth Science is studied at students when they are 14 in some schools and when they are 18 in some
others. The students of 18 years old at the time of the competition are too old according to IESO statute.
In 2010/2011 school year will start in Italy a new school system that puts Earth science at least for one year in all the second degree-secondary schools for at least two hours per week, at ninth
grade post kindergartner (pupils of 14 years old).
In the next few year, according to the new school system, in most of the lyceum school natural science will be taught at least from 2 to 5 hour per week for 5 years (14-18 years old). In Natural
Science subject is included biology, Earth science and chemistry.
So from 2012-2013 Italian students for IESO will be selected even among students of 16-17 years old.
A work group inside ANISN manages the national selection. Usually around October the new call for school to participate at the National Natural Science Olympiad is ready. The school could
download the call for school directly by ANISN website. The call for school is advertise by ANISN member network and by the official communication of Ministry of Education.
The Natural Sciences Olympiad has several steps:
School level: the school applies at the Natural Science Olympiad and select generally 4 students for each category. The selection is managed by science teachers that could make a test or simply
choose the students with the best science assesment.
Regional level: the selected students of each school of each region they partecipate in the same place at regional selection. Regional selection is held the same in day in all Italy.
National level: the selected students from each Region (around 50 students for each category) stays for three days in Napoli (Italy) to take tests and select the students for the international
olympiad.
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National Selection: Italian National selection, 6 May 2011, Jesolo, Italy (Photo by Roberto Greco)
A national team of ANISN members prepare the regional and national test.
In A) category there is the final list and even a special list made by the best evaluation only in question related in Earth science. The first four will attend at IESO.
During the summer ANISN provide a week of training for the best ten students of A) category in Earth science national test. The students already know the four of them that will attend IESO.
However for all ten this week is something like an additional award and all of them enjoy to spend a week with other smart students with the same interests and to learn more on Earth science.
In 2010 summer the training week was held in Università degli Studi di Camerino (http://www.unicam.it/geologia/unicamearth/index.htm ), organize by ANISN teachers and the Earth science
Department. School teachers and University professor held lectures and practical activities in laboratory and in the field.
ANISN selected students for IBO for the first time in 2008 and for IESO for the first time in 2009. The first italian partecipation at IESO was partially fund by Federazione Italiana Scienze della
Terra Geoitalia Onlus.
All the olimpiads program is partially funded by school that have to pay a small fee and provide the travel expense for teacher and students to partecipate at the regional level and partially by
the Ministry of Education.
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IESO Pre-Conference 6-10 July 2011 final program
6 of July - Arrival
19:30 meeting point at Residence ‘Le Costellazioni’
20:30 Welcome dinner at ‘La Mamma’ restaurant, Via Cavallerini, 4 Modena
07 of July – Field trip
08.30 Departure from Residence “Le Costellazioni”
10.30 –11.30 1st Stop: Sestola Centro Aeronautico Militare di Montagna – CAMM http://www.meteoam.it, introduction to the military meteo station and Regional Natural Park Parco del
Frignano http://www.parks.it/parco.frignano/Eindex.php
12.00 2nd Stop: Passo Serre Sestola panoramic view, geomorphology description of the area
13.00-14.00 nice walking from Pian Cavallaro (1.861 m above sea level) to the top of Monte Cimone (2.165 m above sea level), in case there is even the possibility to use a lift.
14.00 –15.00 pic nic at the top of Monte Cimone, in a sunny day there is an amazing view
15.00 – 16.00 3rd Stop: visit to the 2 meteo stations, Centro Aeronautico Militare di Montagna – CAMM and Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR
16.00 – 16:30 We move down from Monte Cimone to Pian Cavallaro
18.00 – 19.00 Visit to Sestola town centre
19.30 – 21.30 dinner with traditional local dish at ‘Locanda Romana’
22.30 Arrival at Residence “Le Costellazioni”
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Geology and Geomorphologist field lecture: Doriano Castaldini (Local Organizing Committee)
Meteorogist lectures: Di Diodato Attilio (Scientific Committee)
08 of July – Meeting day
Earth Science Department, Largo Sant’Eufemia 19, Modena Aula M (room M)
08.30 Departure from Residence “Le Costellazioni”
09.00 – 12.00 1st Pre-conference Meeting
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch at ‘Caffè Concerto’ in Piazza Grande, Modena
14.00 - 17.00 2nd Pre-conference Meeting
20.00 Dinner at ‘La Mamma’ restaurant, Via Cavallerini, 4 Modena
09 of July – Meeting day
Morning: Earth Science Department, Via sant’Eufemia 19, Modena Aula M (room M)
Afternoon: Environmental Education Lab (LEA), Marzaglia
08.30 Departure from Residence “Le Costellazioni”
09.00 – 12.00 3rd Pre-conference Meeting
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch at ‘Caffè Concerto’ in Piazza Grande, Modena
14.00-16.30 relax time
17.00 –20.30 Symposium at LEA, Marzaglia, Modena. During the symposium the delegate presents Earth science education good practices and experiences. Local science teachers are invited
to attend.
20.30 - 22.30 Dinner at LEA, Marzaglia, Modena
Return to Residence “Le Costellazioni”
10 of July – Meeting day
Departures
BUS shuttle from Modena bus station to Bologna airport
Brief report on IESO Pre Conference in Italy
Dear IESO colleagues,
Brief report on the Pre-Conference IESO 2011
This is a simple brief report for the non attended countries. Detail contents will be found on the website of IESO 2011. This Pre-Conference was held in Modena, from July 6 through 10.
1. Participants were 26 members from 13 countries and Italian staff.
2. July 7; Field trip,
Sestola Centre Aeronautico Militare di Montagna(CAMM), Meteo station,
Monte Cimone(2,165m), Sestola town center, Castle of Music museum
3. July 8; University of Modena, Room M
Registration for 5th IESO, 30 countries (24 bringing student delegates).
Deatail schedule of the Sep. 5th IESO (refer to website of IESO 2011),
Federation Italiano di Science, GeoItalia explained by Dr. Roberto Greco
International Team Field Investigation plan in Valle d’Aoste (Alps)
by Dr. Susanna Occhipinti, 7 sites with different subject investigation.
4. July 9; University Modena, Room M
Discussion on Syllabus, Scientific Committee for written test and practical test;
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Welcome good questionnaire items from other countries by July 25, (Dr. Greco)
Symposium with Italian teachers at LEA, Marzaglia, ( Headquarter of volunteers)
5, July 10; Individually returned back to home countries.
We thanks to all Italiano staff for their hard work and sincere hospitality. I hope all foreign participants consider Italiano’s usual time table; breakfast 9 o’clock, Lunch 2, Dinner 9 PM. Website
2011 IESO, facebook, PBworks will be useful. In case of difficulty or questions, it will be very good to contact the Italiano staff.
Sincerely Yours, Moo Young SONG
Chair, Coordinating Committee of the IESO
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IESO – Related Products and Awards
Poster and Flag; Folder and notebook; IESO 2011 delegates handbook
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IESO 2011 Polo, Backpack and hat
Orange and light blue polo (students), red polo (staff), white and dark blue polo (mentor, Observers and Guest); Long sleeves T-shirt; Plastic bottle provided by Hera sponsor, notebook, waterproof
jacket; Balsamic Vinegar offered by Coldiretti Modena, local trade union for farmers, during the practical test.
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Medals
The medals, specifically realised for IESO 2011, have been manufactured in limited number by Dott. Eleonora Reggiani (degree in Environmental Engineering-UNIMORE) using a novel formulation
of glass paste containing high percentage of recycled glass.
This material was developed and patented (MI2011A000369) by the researchers from the Department of Materials and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with Ceramic Master Mauro Ingrami.
In line with IESO 2011 topic, Modena and Reggio Emilia University has matched science, environment and art
Production process:
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raw material: glass powder
mixing
forming
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CERTIFICATES
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Partecipant List IESO 2011
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Scientific Committee
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Staff List
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Sponsor List
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Patronage
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The special Logo of European Year of Volunteering 2011 was provide for the strong engagement of volunteers in the IESO 2011 events. Volunteers of IESO 2011 were all the people involved in the
Local Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee, Staff, Civil Protection that provide the students breakfast, several meals and a demonstration of their activities, and the Guardie Ecologiche
Volontarie that support the visit at the Natural Reserve of Salse di Nirano (mud volcanoes).
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Regards of the Minister of Education
on the opening Ceremony of The 5th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO)
Modena, 2011
Dear students,
This year, the International Earth Science Olympiad – IESO 2011 – will be held in Italy. On behalf of the Italian Government, I would like to invite your country to participate in this important
event.
It will be an honour to welcome you in the beautiful city of Modena from the 5th to the 14th of September 2011. Italy was the first European country to take part, with a full selected team,
in the Taiwan games in 2009, and, now, it is the first to host the IESO in Europe.
Italy strongly believes in encouraging friendship among people from different countries, promoting international cooperation, exchanging ideas and materials on earth science and improving
geoscience education in secondary schools.
IESO 2011 offers a unique opportunity to encourage students’ interest in a topic which affects our lives and our presence in the world as human beings. Respecting nature and our planet
is a value that we wish to inspire in all participants.
2011 also marks Italy’s 150th unification anniversary. For this reason, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia together with the Ministry of Education are all the more proud to have
the opportunity to organize the Olympiad this year.
Good luck!
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Regards of the Rector of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
on the opening Ceremony of The 5th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO)
Modena, 2011
On behalf of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia I would like to convey to the participants of the 5th IESO a warm and cordial welcome.
I also like to express the satisfaction of the University for the decision to hold such an important event in Modena. Through this annual gathering enthusiastic teachers and pupils meet
on a subject that has deep roots.
This ethical and educational initiative that has the merit of maintaining an international focus on key themes such as knowledge and respect for nature, environmental protection, sustainable
development.
The department of earth science in Modena was founded well over 100 years ago, earning a forefront position in many important scientific fields, such as mineralogy, and geomorphology.
Also the school of Geology, now in its 50th year of service, is highly esteemed, as certified by national and international research projects coordinated by the research personnel of the
department in collaboration with groups all around the world. Thanks to the efforts of the teaching and technical staff, working with skill and scientific precision, the Department is up to
date in any progress and development made in this area.
Modena University, one of the oldest in Italy, hence in the world, its roots going back to the Middle Age, is pleased to welcome you. We are sure that in this study field we can offer much
to the young people that will take part at the training and educational activities. Let us also advice you to pay a visit to the collection of our Museum Gemma 1786.
Walking in the old streets of downtown you will discover our valuable cultural and architectural heritage, the Cathedral and its Piazza, a UNESCO world heritage site.
I am sure you will enjoy staying here. My colleagues and I will do everything to make your day pleasant and intense, making it an opportunity of scientific and cultural growth, while
discovering a rich and interesting territory.
I wish to all of you a pleasant, proud to be the first European city and university to host such a prestigious event.
It is a great satisfaction to see so many young students from different countries, with different experiences and cultures here together in Italy in this year, that coincides with the 150th
year of the Italian Unification.
I hope this anniversary, so important for us, will leave you with a sense of sharing, friendship, solidarity and belonging to a world without borders, where different traditions, customs,
ethical or religious beliefs no longer represent an obstacle to dialogue and peace between peoples.
THE RECTOR
Prof. Aldo Tomasi
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Regards of the Chairman of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Modena
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WELCOME TO IESO 2011
As Chairman of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all participants of the IESO 2011.
We are very pleased to support the fifth edition of this international olympiad for secondary school students, who will have to show their skills in all major areas of Earth Sciences, including
geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, terrestrial astronomy and environmental sciences.
As a private, non-profit and grant making organization, the Fondazione aims at stimulating growth and welfare in its reference area. It has been operative since 1991, playing a precious
role in the development of the local territory, intervening in the field of arts and other cultural activities, as well as that of scientific research and charity projects. Initiatives range from
conservation and valorization of artistic heritage and cultural activities to scientific research; from education and training to health and assistance, to aiding the socially needy. With
regard to education and research, Fondazione is particularly committed to supporting learning opportunities at every level, from early childhood to universities, post-graduate and
masters’ programs. The IESO project definitely falls within the scope of our interest and provides young students from different countries with a unique opportunity to share and discuss
their experiences.
We look forward to welcoming them in Modena and wish best luck to everyone taking part in the contest.
Andrea Landi
Chairman, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
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Welcome to the 5th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO-2011)
It is my great pleasure to welcome young students from all over the world to the Fifth International Earth Science Olympiad, the IESO-2011. The Olympiad will be held for the first time on
the European continent, in the beautiful italien host city of Modena.
The IESO is an activity of the International Geoscience Education Organisation (IGEO), which aims to promote geoscience education internationally at all levels, to work for enhancement
of the quality of geoscience education internationally and to encourage developments raising public awareness of geoscience, particularly amongst younger people. To meet these aims,
the IGEO monitors international provision of geoscience education and foster communications between geoscience educators worldwide. It liaises with international and national bodies
concerned with geoscience education, with international professional geoscience bodies, such as the International Union of Geological Sciences (of which it is an affiliate) and with
international bodies concerned with science education.
The main aim of the IESO is to encourage students’ interest and public awareness of Earth Science and to enhance Earth science learning. With the IESO the organizers hope to pick out
talented and gifted Earth science students and to promote the improvement of teaching Earth sciences at schools all over the world. Last but not least, the IESO is developed in pursuit
of encouraging friendly relationships among young learners from different countries and promoting international cooperation in exchanging ideas and materials on Earth sciences and
Earth sciences education.
In the name of IGEO I like to thank the local italien organizers of IESO-2011 for their enthusiastic and very successful work for this important event. I am shure the teams will enjoy their
tasks and have many inspiring experiences!
Sylke Hlawatsch
(Chairperson, Internatioal Geoscience Education Organization (IGEO))
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Regards of the President of IESO
on the opening Ceremony of The 5th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO)
Modena, 2011
Earth Science Renaissance with the 5th IESO
ust as the Renaissance originated in Italy 6 centuries ago, Earth Science Renaissance will occur with the 5ht IESO in Modena, Italy in Sep. 5th through 14th. It is just because Italy is the host
and organizing country as the leader of the world civilization and culture, and also because the upcoming influence will be extraordinary, especially toward former Communist countries
which still are teaching Geography rather than Earth Science.
Our delegate students from around the world will become great leaders internationally in every specialized field; until now through 4 years’ IESO activity the former participants have
shown their great capability, and since the IESO competition they pioneered their career studying in highly qualified Universities. In near future they will lead and guide the world for
better society, earth environment and space exploration.
Through the IESO, the knowledge competition, practical test and International Field investigation, the participant students will show their brilliant capacity and get good fellowship
between foreign students, along with their sharing their unique cultural heritage.
We, mentors, observers, and all staff welcome our young friends to this event! May your great power be successful!
Moo Young SONG
Chairman, Cordinating Committee of the IESO
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Dear IESO students, mentors, observers, and guests,
Welcome to Italy, for the 5th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO 2011)!
First of all I would like to thanks all the people that I meet in this adventure of organize an IESO edition, from Prof. Moo Young Song that that propose me that after three day that I meet
him in Taiwan, to the staff volunteers that comes from all over the world and in most of the case without any relations with Earth Science studies. Many thanks to the Modena Earth Science
Department that were brave enough to take the responsibility to start the process, to the University of Study of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the Italian Ministry of Education and Fondazione
Casa di Risparmio di Modena that give financial and human support.
Thanks to the Italian Earth Science communities, the Italian natural science teachers associations and local authorities and professional trade unions each one bring to us his specific
competence and positive energy.
And last but not least thanks to all the delegate, you are come here from all over the world, after be successful in your local selection.
Why we are here Why we do all this organizing effort Why we are spending all this money for few hundreds of people Just for love of the competitions Well who really know IESO know
that IESO it’s more about cooperation than competitions. Promoting Earth Science Education worldwide has been a life-long goal for all of us. Even with the aims to contrast the lack of
connexion of human with our planet process, fact that increase by the increasing of urban population and decrease or rural one.
Through the IESO 2011, we would like to wake up interest on Earth as a System in the students that are here but even in the hundreds of thousand of students that participate at the
national selections and to be one step closer to reaching the goal of developing friendships and establishing collaboration among the Earth Science communities from around the world.
Local Organizing Committee Coordinator
Roberto Greco
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Arrival & Check-in
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Welcome dinner
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Le Costellazioni
The Costellazioni University Residence is a newly-constructed building with a capacity of
300 guests, most of which are students attending the Erasmus Programme. One hundred beds are
reserved for students from outside the area through a special competition issued by the University,
which regulates the methods for assigning places and associated costs. The competition notice
is issued each year during the month of July. The residence offers double rooms with private
bathroom. On every floor of the building there is a shared kitchen. Costellazioni has reading and
computer areas, TV zone. Cafeteria service as well as laundry and concierge service are provided.
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Residenza Universitaria Costellazioni
Via delle Costellazioni 170 - 41100 Modena
Tel. +39059/2916111 (switchboard) - Fax +39059/2916041
e-mail: residenza.costellazioni@unimore.it
HOTEL RAFFAELLO
SH Hotel Raffaello Modena is a luxurious 4-star hotel ideally situated in a peaceful area, close the city centre. Wireless Internet access is available in public areas.
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Students: Salse di Nirano Natural Reserve (mud vulcanoes)
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