Supporting Geoscience Education in the Owens Valley Region, one of the Premier Venues for Geology Field Education in the World. Note: (this project is still in the formative stages and is presented here to stimulate interest).

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The region surrounding WMRS is one of the premier venues for geology field education in North America, drawing 20-30 classes each year. Some classes travel all the way from the eastern states, as well as the UK and Hawaii. WMRS has been the institutional focus for many of these classes as well as hosting substantial numbers of geoscience research projects. The primary facility for this has been the WMRS Owens Valley Laboratories, which are centrally located and convenient for access to the diverse teaching sites around the region. This project, still in the formative stages, is to renovate the geoscience education facilities at the Owens Valley Lab near Bishop. Initial assessments suggest that a relatively small investment in facilities improvement would greatly improve teaching efficiency at the station. Addition of dorm space would relieve overcrowding, and classroom renovation would improve information access and data crunching.