Earthquakes and Tectonics of the Pacific Northwest: Educational Outreach for Teachers, Students and Communities

太平洋西北地区的地震和构造：面向教师、学生和社区的教育推广本项目支持开发在线地质展览和访问地质学家计划，作为华盛顿大学伯克自然历史与文化博物馆面向学生、教师和公众的教育推广计划的一部分。该计划包括三个相互补充的项目：1)一个名为“太平洋西北部地震与构造”的巡回展览，2)一个与当地学校和公民团体互动的访问地质学家项目，以及3)一个名为“西北起源”的新一代互联网展览。太平洋西北地区的地质演化，探索了倡议主题，并促进了在地质时期创造太平洋西北地区的大规模构造过程的引人入胜的可视化。这一举措是为了应对最近华盛顿西部和俄勒冈州发生的大地震。个人经历的一次大地震事件极大地提高了公众对太平洋西北地区活跃的构造过程的兴趣。该项目的目标是更好地教育公民和学生关于产生地震的地质事件，地震发生的不同构造环境，这些构造过程在地质时期创造太平洋西北地区的作用，以及正在进行的研究项目的意义。

ABSTRACTEarthquakes and Tectonics of the Pacific Northwest:An Educational Outreach for Teachers, Students and CommunitiesThis project supports development of an online geological exhibit and a visiting geologist program as part of an educational outreach initiative for students, teachers and the public by The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture of the University of Washington. The initiative consists of three integrated and complementary programs: 1) A traveling exhibit entitled in Earthquakes and Tectonics of the Pacific Northwest, 2) a visiting geologist program to interact personally with local schools and citizen groups, and 3) a new generation Internet exhibit entitled, Northwest Origins: Geologic Evolution of the Pacific Northwest that explores the initiative topics and promotes engaging visualization of the large-scale tectonic processes that have created the Pacific Northwest over geologic time. The initiative is in response to the recent major earthquake that broadly affected residentsthroughout western Washington and Oregon. Personal experience with a major seismic event has greatly heightened public interest in tectonic processes active in the Pacific Northwest. The goals of the project are to better educate citizens and students about the geologic events thatcreate earthquakes, the different tectonic settings in which earthquakes occur, the role these tectonic processes have played in creating the lands of the Pacific Northwest over geologic time, and the significance of ongoing research programs.