25 BOONE PICKENS SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY Geoscience Summer Camp The summer of 2022 saw the inaugural academic camp for high school students offered by the Boone Pickens School of Geology. This resident camp was called Geoscience Field Experience and offered field trips and laboratory learning experiences for 16 high school students. Dr. Gary Stewart led the field trip and Drs. Halihan, Quan and Puckette provided in-lab instruction and activities. We were assisted by Lauren Haygood and Silas Samuel, who helped with logistics and served as dorm chaperones. This highly successful program returns for a second summer in 2023. IODP Exhibit Hosted by a team from the Boone Pickens School of Geology (BPSoG) (led by Dr. Riedinger) and in partnership with the Stillwater Public Library, OSU 4H, and the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), the NSF-funded scientific ocean drilling exhibition “In Search of Earth’s Secrets” and the 40-foot-long inflatable replica of the JOIDES Resolution research vessel docked in Stillwater, OK, from April to June 2022. In Search of Earth’s Secrets is an interactive, hands-on exhibit about marine scientific research to explore mysteries of the ocean and unravel marine secrets about the ocean floor via ocean drilling research vessels such as the JOIDES Resolution. Furthermore, the BPSoG and Stillwater Public Library team hosted Dr. Laurel Childress, who is an IODP Expedition Project Manager/Staff Scientist, children’s book author Kevin Schultz, who has authored books about various aspects of marine science, and Dr. Ashley Burkett, while she was on board the actual JOIDES Resolution, for events open to the Stillwater community. The ocean drilling exhibit traveled between the Stillwater Public Library and OSU campus to showcase the scientific research using several interactive kiosks/learning stations, hands-on activities, and large floor-map to explore the geology of the oceans. Both BPSoG faculty and students volunteered their time to staff each kiosk and help with hands-on activities with communities. Boy and Girl Scouts were able to visit OSU and the Stillwater Public Library and explore the exhibition to earn their “Earth’s Secrets” badge. Under the guidance of the BPSoG team the exhibition also traveled to several rural places in Oklahoma such as the Yale Public Library and Yale public school. A small portion of the exhibit also traveled to Rose State, for their ROCK the Earth summer geoscience camp.
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