Public Safety and Education Abroad
Indonesia
Current TO educational
outreach efforts focus
on distributing posters, brochures, and GPS station data
sheets to people living on the Mentawai
and Batu islands. These materials explain the regional
tectonic processes and the purpose of GPS stations. (See Sumatra
Plate Boundary Project Outreach)
Nepal
 TO geodesy specialist John Galetzka has given many presentations in Nepal about earthquake hazards and safety. Watch his latest presentation (March 29, 2012):
"Nepal: Japan-size earthquakes,
Haiti-like infrastructure"
In collaboration with colleagues from the Nepal Department of Mines and Geology, the TO produced a brochure that explains the seismological network in Nepal, which is used throughout the country as a reference guide by government departments and the general public.
See Indo-Asian
Collision Zone (IACZ) Project Outreach | Download brochure
Mexico
 In a program developed by Professor Xyoli Pérez Campos, students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) make presentations to high schools. The presentations range from powerpoint talks to "Tectonics Puzzles". (See MesoAmerican Subduction Experiment [MASE] outreach) (Read article)
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