Bowser Project

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Bowser Project Outreach
Mandate To provide geoscience information in
support of wise land use and resource
decisions Team (its growing) NRCan Bob Turner,
Godfrey Nowlan, Dave Mate , Carol Evenchick,
Richard Franklin and Bowser Basin
team Exploration Place Darren King School
District 57 Meleeta Coltman, Mike Turner Duke
Energy Ltd. John Turner Our challenge To
provide an educational legacy that continues
beyond our 5 year project
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Our outreach strategy
Audience? Inhabitants of Bowser Basin Towns
closest to Bowser Basin All northern BC A
legacy? To create a legacy, we need a partner
that can take what we create and continue to
deliver after we are gone. All northern BC as
our audience Disadvantages Not a community.
Diverse landscapes, climates, economies. Advantage
s Larger audience. Includes Prince George with
university, colleges, and museum/science centre.
Approach No all-geoscience geoscape poster.
Focus on earth energy. Focus on flexible
products.
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Our partner Exploration Place in Prince George

• Exploration Place
• science centre/museum in downtown Prince George
• 130,000 visitors last year
• Funded by Fraser-Fort George Regional
  District
• (Mackenzie to McBride to Vanderhoof)
• the science centre for northern BC
• Science Centres as key partners for NRCan
  outreach
• Connection through Dave Mate of Science in the
  Centres
• In-school and science centre programs
• Community member. Deliver our content after we
  leave
• Looking for partnerships.

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Outreach Focus 1 Travelling Geoscape Science
box Earth Energy in northern BC

• Work with Exploration Place strengths
• Onsite dinosaur exhibit Nature Exchange
• Classroom programs travelling science boxes
• Exploration Place needs
• replace reduced forestry sector funding
• new Energy industry funding?
• increased visibility with Regional District
• Geoscape Science Box
• a travelling science box on Earth Energy in NBC
• Geoscape-style (illustration-rich) content tied
  to
• class-room activities.
• Designed with teachers/educators
• Teacher design workshop March 5, Prince George

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Geoscape Science Box content
Geoscape content What is a sedimentary rock?
Sedimentary basin? Does NBC have sedimentary
basins? What resources do these basins contain?
How does oil, gas, coal form? How can we use
Earth Energy responsibly? Activities Lets make a
sedimentary rock! What earth resources do we
use? A
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Outreach Focus 2 Community Geoscape Guides

• Geoscape guides
• Mackenzie, B.C. draft complete
• Prince George, B.C. field trip, March 4
• other communities?
• Content of guides
• promote understanding of your home
• community through student research
• virtual field trip of community class-room
  activities
• rely on community expertise
• focus on local landscape and important earth
  resources
• ? What is the geography of your home
  landscape?
• ? What earth materials make up your
  landscape?
• ? Where does your water supply come from?
• ? Where does your waste go?
• ? What are your local earth resources?
• ? Where does your gasoline come from?
• ? Where does your natural gas come from?

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Outreach Plans

• 2003/2004
• Geoscape Science box
• draft 1 content
• teacher design workshop (March 5, Prince
  George)
• Geoscape Guide
• Mackenzie
• 2004/2005
• Geoscape Science box
• complete content
• 2nd teacher workshop
• Geoscape Guides
• Prince George, 2 other communities
• Other
• Exploration Place staff visit to project field
  camp
• Bowser Basin scientists?
• 2005/2006
• Geological road map, northern BC

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