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Michelle K Hall-Wallace¹ (520.621.9993; hall@geo.arizona.edu)
Thomas Boyd² (tboyd@mines.edu)
Glenn Richard³ (garichard@notes.cc.sunysb.edu)
Katherine Ellins⁴ (kellins@ig.utexas.edu)
Charles Meertens⁵ (chuckm@unavco.ucar.edu)
Steven Semken⁶ (semken@dinecollege.edu)
John Taber⁷ (taber@iris.edu)
Mark Benthien⁸ (benthien@usc.edu)
Lisa Wald⁹ (lisa@usgs.gov)
Robert Marvinney¹⁰ (Robert.G.Marvinney@state.me.us)

¹University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, 1040 E 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States
²Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO 80401, United States
³Stony Brook University, Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States
⁴University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, 4412 Spicewood Springs Rd., Bldg. 600, Austin, TX 78759-8500, United States
⁵UNAVCO, Inc., 3360 Mitchell Lane, Suite C , Boulder, co 80301, United States
⁶Arizona State University, Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, United States
⁷IRIS, 1200 New York Ave, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005, United States
⁸SCEC, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Suite 169, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0742, United States
⁹Earthquake Hazards, USGS, GOLDEN, CO 80401, United States
¹⁰Maine Geologic Survey, 22 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333, United States

EarthScope's education and outreach (E&O) mission is to ensure that the EarthScope experiment creates as its legacy a public more knowledgeable and understanding of the scientific and societal contributions made by the EarthScope experiment and Earth science. It will fulfill this commitment by developing and disseminating programs and products that utilize the data, models, technology and discoveries of EarthScope. The EarthScope Education and Outreach Network (EON), consisting of local EON alliances, the EarthScope facilities, partner organizations and a coordinating office, will facilitate this E&O mission. The local EON alliances, which will vary in size and purpose to respond quickly and to meet the specific needs in a region, will carry out the bulk of the effort. Thus, EarthScope EON can provide customized services that engage culturally, economically and geographically diverse audiences at the national and local scales. The EarthScope facilities and research community will provide access to data, models, and visualization tools for educational purposes. Partnerships with other national and local science education and outreach programs at colleges, universities, research facilities and professional societies within the EarthScope community as well as relevant programs at museums and parks, state geologic surveys and emergency management agencies, and K-12 schools are critical to EON's success. These partnerships will allow EON to use existing resources, networks and expertise to gear up quickly and efficiently. As EON develops, it will reciprocate by contributing new resources and expertise to the partnerships that help improve public understanding of Earth systems overall and promote effective application of EarthScope discoveries. In this presentation, we will outline major programs and products envisioned for EarthScope, plans for evaluating those programs locally and nationally, and mechanisms for collaborating with existing E&O programs.