Outreach

Ta´u high school (2004), American Samoa

While conducting field work in Samoa in 2004, Jackson spoke with local high school students about his research in Samoa. The Samoan islands, like Hawaii’s islands, are formed from a plume of hot, buoyant mantle material that rises from deep within Earth’s mantle and through its crust, erupting to form volcanic islands. (Photo by Stan Hart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Ta´u elementary school (2009), American Samoa

Jackson spoke to local elementary school students and teachers on Ta’u Island, American Samoa. The presentation followed 3 weeks after the tsunami that struck the Samoan region, and Jackson’s presentation focused on helping the students gain an understanding of tsunami generation and emphasized methods for basic tsunami hazard avoidance. Jackson was visiting Ta’u to retrieve one of the four temporary seismic stations than he and his colleagues at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution installed along the Samoan archipelago in 2006 (Photo by Anna Skula, Boston, MA)

Mangaia high school (2010), Cook Islands

While conducting field work on Mangaia Island in the Cook Islands, Jackson and graduate student, Rita Cabral, presented the goals of their research to students at the local high school. Mangaian lavas represent a compositional and isotopic extreme among oceanic hotspot lavas, and they may represent melts that host a component of ancient recycled oceanic crust. (Photo by Rita Cabral, Boston University)

Outreach in the Cook Islands

While in the Cook Islands in August, 2010, Jackson, his student, Rita Cabral, and colleague Dr. James Day interviewed with a local newspaper (Cook Island News) to discuss our research in the region. Jackson also organized a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, the Honorable Jim Marurae, to discuss future plans for geological and geochemical research there.
http://www.cookislandsnews.com/2010/August/Wed25/other.htm#1008230905

Media outreach ( 2007):

Nature Podcast: http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v448/n7154/nature-2007-08-09.html

Jackson Lab Media outreach (2010):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10941026

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100812-worlds-oldest-rocks-magma-earth-nature-science/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/13/tech/main6770206.shtml

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38661354/ns/technology_and_science-science

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117492&org=NSF

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/08/earths-oldest-cranny-explored.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mantle-reservoir

http://news.discovery.com/earth/oldest-earth-rock-lava.html

http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=1803&id=56584

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-old-rock-20100812,0,3135293.story

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/08/11/Primitive-rocks-may-hold-early-Earth-clues/UPI-11251281563212

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=151953

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/baffin-island-rocks-hint-at-earths-original-recipe/article1669504

http://www.britainnews.net/story/671267

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19307-hidden-rocks-from-infant-earth-hint-at-planets-origin.htm l

http://news.oneindia.in/2010/08/12/oldestearth-mantle-reservoir-discovered-on-baffinisland.html

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/oldest-earth-mantle-reservoir-discovered-on-baffin-island_100410953.htm l

http://www.popfi.com/2010/08/12/the-oldest-rock-on-earth

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/11/baffin-island-rocks-mantle.html

http://www.livescience.com/environment/earth-original-volcanic-lava-rock-recently-uncovered-100811.html

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=795

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/oldest_earth_mantle_reservoir_discovered_159650.html

http://www.sciencecodex.com/oldest_earth_mantle_reservoir_discovered

http://sify.com/news/oldest-earth-mantle-reservoir-discovered-on-baffin-island-news-international-kimnEcfeaaa.html

http://enterprisepost.com/science/science/oldest-earth-mantle-reservoir-discovered.html

http://www.networlddirectory.com/blogs/permalinks/8-2010/oldest-earth-mantle-reservoir.html

http://www.newkerala.com/news2/fullnews-19125.html

http://www.indiavision.com/news/article/scitech/90035/

http://www.themoneytimes.com/20100811/primitive-rocks-may-hold-early-earth-clues-id-10124131.html

http://scienceblog.com/37453/oldest-earth-mantle-reservoir-discovered/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Primitive-Earth-Mantle-Reservoir-Found-151866.shtml

http://www.sourcews.com/oldest-earth-mantle-reservoir-discovered_78520

http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/breaking-news-all-topics/oldest-earth-mantle-reservoir-discovered_89595.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100811135033.htm

http://www.planet-techno-science.com/en/index.php/2010/08/10/arctic-rocks-offer-new-glimpse-of-primitive-earth/

http://io9.com/5610881/oldest-piece-of-earths-mantle-ever-discovered-dates-back-to-the-planets-formation

Jackson Lab Media outreach (2011):

http://earth-pages.co.uk/2011/07/30/pristine-mantle-and-basalt-floods/

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/07/29/reservoirs-of-ancient-lava-shaped-earth

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128234.000-earths-time-bombs-may-have-killed-the-dinosaurs.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110727131401.htm

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/232758-Reservoirs-of-Ancient-Lava-Shaped-Earth

http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-source-earths-biggest-eruptions-found-180405513.html

http://worldnews.cronews.net/2011/08/01/ancient-source-of-earths-biggest-eruptions-found-2/

http://news.discovery.com/earth/ancient-earth-volcanoes-110728.html

Jackson lab Media outreach (2013):

1.     Nature Geoscience Research Highlight

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v6/n5/full/ngeo1820.html

2.     New Scientist Magazine

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829144.600-rocks-reemerge-after-25-billion-years-in-mantle.html

3.     Science News – Sid Perkins

http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-crust-rises-from-the-deep-1.12859

4.     Spektrum der Wissenschaft – Antje Findeklee

http://www.spektrum.de/alias/bilder-der-woche/alter-zeuge/1192145

5.     LiveScience.com and OurAmazingPlanet.com – Becky Oskin

http://www.livescience.com/29006-volcano-samples-ancient-mantle-rocks.html

6.     Stockhom University

http://www.su.se/om-oss/press-media-nyheter/pressrum/jordskorpa-ateruppstod-efter-2500-miljoner-ar-1.132860

7.     Stockholm Museum of Natural History

http://www.nrm.se/forskningochsamlingar/forskningsnyheter/forskningsnyheter2012/jordskorpaateruppstodefter2500miljonerar.18951.html

8. Scripps press release

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Releases/?releaseID=1345

Jackson Lab Media outreach (2014):
Write-up in Science:
http://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/7_november_2014?pg=46#pg46

Additional outlets:
http://www.noozhawk.com/article/ucsb_geochemist_gains_insight_into_the_makeup_of_planets_deep_interior

http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=142375

http://www.sciencecodex.com/journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth-143677

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth_finds_primordial_signatures_from_the_early_solar_system-147082

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/10/geochemist-gets-view-center-earth

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/10/journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth/105308

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2014/10/17/journey.center.earth

Jackson lab Media outreach (2016):

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/new_study_by_geologist_matthew_jackson_finds_evidence_of_earths_oldest_geoc

http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/billion-year-old-rocks-canada-baffin-island/2016/05/17/id/729194/

http://www.ecanadanow.com/4-5-billion-year-old-rocks-found-in-canada/98648/

http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=169676

Jackson Lab Media outreach (2017):

The Atlantic:
Explorers Find Passage to Earth’s Dark Age

Quanta Magazine:
Explorers Find Passage to Earth’s Dark Age

Primordial helium sampled by hottest plumes:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170206130401.htm
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/02/older-than-the-moon/114077
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=181261
http://www.livescience.com/57809-earth-mantle-is-older-than-the-moon.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20170210-ls

Jackson Lab Public outreach aboard the NOAA vessel Okeanos Explorer (2017):
Highlights of public outreach during Jackson's participation during NOAA expedition to American Samoa.
--During the 2017 seagoing expedition to American Samoa and Independent Samoa, we conducted ship tours for local students, teachers, VIPs and media in both Pago Pago and Apia. 118 participants visited the ship in Pago Pago, American Samoa and about 115 participants and 15 media visited the ship in Apia, Samoa.
--Received news and media coverage by more than 45 outlets (including CNN, CBS, Huffington Post, Scientific American, Gizmodo, and local media in American Samoa and Samoa). Shared live video feeds of the expedition with the public worldwide via the Internet, with the live video receiving more than 6.2 million views via YouTube and Facebook.
--Conducted two live interactions with the Tauese P.F. Sunia Ocean Center in American Samoa to engage and share the expedition with ~170 local students, the Office of Samoan affairs, and other agency representatives and officials (see image of students, below).

--At least 48 scientists and students from 12 U.S. states, Japan, Russia, Chile, and Trinidad and Tobago participated in the expedition as members of the science team.
--Some examples of outreach are provided below:
*Official cruise website: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1702/welcome.html
*Live interaction from the ship with students on shore: http://www.talanei.com/2017/02/24/local-students-interact-with-scientists-on-okeanos/
*More live interaction: http://www.talanei.com/2017/02/24/local-students-take-virtual-dive-with-okeanos/
*Santa Barbara news (EDHAT): https://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=182272
*CNN story: http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/03/03/noaa-american-samoa-expedition-orig-vstan.cnn
*Samoan Observer: http://www.samoaobserver.ws/en/04_03_2017/local/17542/Research-vessel-shares-knowledge.htm