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1. EL DR. PAUL SCHAUFELBERGER, UN PIONERO DE LA GEOLOGÍA DEL SIGLO XX DE COSTA RICA.

Author

Huertas, Giovanni Peraldo, Cortés, Jonathan Chinchilla, and Álvarez, Teresita Aguilar

Subjects
*GEOLOGY education in universities & colleges, *GEOLOGICAL research, *FIELDWORK (Educational method), *UNIVERSITY & college employees
Abstract

We highlight the contributions of Dr. Paul Schaufelberger, who arrived to Costa Rica in 1929, contracted by the government, to teach geology at the Liceo de Costa Rica, Colegio Superior de Señoritas and Escuela Nacional de Agricultura. He was the director of the department of Geology and Mineralogy of the Centro Nacional de Agricultura located at San Pedro de Montes de Oca in what is now Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio. In his work Schaufelberger contributed scientific and disclosure papers about geology as known in his time. He wrote many papers that served as guidance for the lessons related to the subject of Geology in Costa Rica. He left the country in 1939 hired by the Federación de Cafetaleros de Colombia with the purpose of performing geologic field studies intended for the betterment of the Colombian coffee industry. Schaufelberger died in 1976 in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007

2. SPENDING SOME TIME IN THE FIELD. FIELDWORK IN THE PORTUGESE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

Author

MOTA, TERESA SALOMÉ

Subjects
GEOLOGICAL surveys, PORTUGUESE history, GEOLOGY fieldwork, GEOLOGY education in universities & colleges, TEAMS in the workplace, HISTORY, TWENTIETH century, MAPS
Abstract

The practice and methods of geological fieldwork in the Portuguese Geological Survey evolved during the middle part of the twentieth century. Between the 1920s and the 1940s, the Survey's field assistants played a key role in conducting geological fieldwork; special attention will be given to their training. In 1940, Georges Zbyzsewski (1909-1999) was hired as a geologist by the Survey and he was responsible for conducting the majority of fieldwork. Scientific collaborators from outside the Survey also began to play a key role in the institution. From the 1950s onwards, several new specialities were hired by the Survey, especially geologists and field assistants. The pace of geological fieldwork recorded an unprecedented increase. The characteristics of the teams that carried out this task in the Survey were instrumental in this achievement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014