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title: 'QuEST: Quantitative Earth Sciences Transformation'

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QuEST: Quantitative Earth Sciences Transformation
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The Quantitative Earth Sciences Transformation (QuEST) initiative seeks to transform and modernize quantitative Earth sciences education at UBC. 

Project Goals
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- Attract students who are interested and capable in math, physics, computing, and other quantitative disciplines to learn and develop skills in the context of subjects that are both fascinating and important to society. 
- Define new, forward‐looking outcomes for our quantitative specializations.
- Articulate new or improved curricular and course-based strategies that enable students to meet these outcomes and core competencies.
 
Anticipated impacts
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 - Enhanced recruiting and improved visibility of opportunities will inspire more students to pursue quantitatively oriented degree. These degrees that will equip them for success in a wide range of existing and emerging academic and career pathways, which are both socially critical and personally rewarding. 
 - Redesigned curriculum will emphasize fundamentals within contexts such as climate, energy, resources, hazards, and ocean, landscape or atmospheric dynamics of Earth and other planets. 
 - The efficiency, efficacy and satisfaction of instructors will increase. Also, new inter‐disciplinary synergies will emerge giving students an integrated and holistic understanding of Earth Science and the roles of quantitative thinking across disciplines.

In line math like this: $e = mc^2$. Centered math like ...


$$e = mc^2$$


Project status and Details
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**Funding & Departmental commitment**: UBC's "Advanced Education Renewal" funding has been obtained as of Dec 14, 2020. Project is anticipated to span late 2020 through early 2023. 
**Project started**: Oct. 2020.
**Internal department Kickoff meeting**: January 26th.
**New EOAS website** with QuEST components and quantitative Earth science options for students emphasized: Feb. - Mar. 2021.
**Project website, GitHub, reports, or other details**: Under development.
 
## Have a Question?

[Francis Jones](https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/francisjones), QuEST project support.
Phone: (604) 822-2138
Email: fjones@eoas.ubc.ca