SCEC INSTANeT News
	John Marquis: Web-based Earth science education modules

John Marquis has participated in outreach and education activities for the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) for the past six years. As one of the first class of SCEC Summer Interns in 1994, he produced a touch-screen computer display of earthquake information for visitors to the Caltech Seismological Laboratory. After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Caltech in 1995, he became a webmaster for the SCEC Data Center. In addition to creating numerous interactive maps and animations for the Data Center's web site, he authored an online educational module in seismology used by high-school and college students (and interested members of the public) across the nation. Currently he works at the SCEC Outreach office at the University of Southern California, developing online resources for a variety of projects in earthquake-related education and outreach.   Mr. Marquis described SCEC's earthquake education web curriculum: Investigating Earthquakes through Regional Seismicity View a video clip (4 minutes) in which Mr. Marquis describes the development and structure of the curriculum. (Real Player required) View a video clip (6 minutes, 21 seconds) in which Mr. Marquis describe the storyline of the curricula and demonstrates one of the activities. (Real Player required) Mr. Marquis also briefly introduced SCEC's middle school earth science web-based education module, "Whole Earth," which is under development. View a video clip (50 seconds) of this brief introduction. (Real Player required)

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