AOGS-EOS International Geoscience Challenge 2019

About the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 

AOGS was established in 2003 to promote geosciences and its application for the benefit of humanity, specifically in Asia and Oceania and with an overarching approach to global issues. AOGS holds annual conventions providing a unique opportunity of exchanging scientific knowledge and discussion to address important geo-scientific issues among academia, research institution and public.

About the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) 

EOS conducts fundamental research on earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and climate change in and around Southeast Asia, toward safer and more sustainable societies. 

During the 16th Annual Meeting from 28 Jul to 2 Aug 2019 in Singapore, AOGS 
and EOS would like to invite your students to participate in the AOGS-EOS as part of the organisation’s effort to inspire and create greater interest in the Geosciences.

There are 2 categories to this Competition: 


􏰀 Middle School Category
– Open to all middle schools or secondary schools (age 13-16) 

􏰀 High School Category
– Open to all high schools or junior colleges (age 16-18) 

Aims:
To give students the experience of conducting an investigative geoscience project and provide students with a platform to exhibit and share their findings with others.
Disciplines:
Students are allowed to submit projects in or related to the following disciplines:
􏰁 Atmosphere Sciences (AS)
􏰁 Biogeosciences (BG)
􏰁 Hydrological Sciences (HS)
􏰁 Interdisciplinary Geosciences (IG)
􏰁 Ocean Sciences (OS)
􏰁 Planetary Sciences (PS)
􏰁 Solar and Terrestrial Sciences (ST)
􏰁 Solid Earth Sciences (SE)
Students are encouraged to be creative in designing their research projects using available resources.

SST submitted 5 projects and 2 projects came back with awards:
Investigation of the effects of coastal gradient on the transverse and longitudinal waves [SILVER] LOKE YI MING (S3-02) CHRISTABEL LEE (S3-07) SEE TOH ANNIE (S3-03)
 
Investigation of the lightning occurrence in SingaporeNG TENG EN DEAN (S2-01), LAI WAN LIN (S1-02)

Investigation of the solar flares in the 20MHz range [BRONZE] CHONG YU LIN (S2-02)
 
Investigation of the sudden disturbance in the ionosphere of the earthTHI HAN SOE ZAW (S2-03) 


Development of a radiotelescope for VLF ObservationsMUHAMMAD ADAM AQASHA (S3-06) ANDRIEN ZHENG KAI JIE (S3-01) SEOW KIT HINT (S3-02)
 

 
 
 

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