Promoting Earth Systems Science Education

Our Mission

Our mission is to promote Earth Systems Science Education:

• for professional geoscientists through seminars and industry events;
• for teachers at all grade levels by providing instruction and classroom-ready tools; and
• for children of every age by personal interaction with geoscientists and exposure to career opportunities.

News: Patty Holyfield Teaching Award

The Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute, Miles Foundation and Dallas Geological Society presented this year’s Patty Holyfield Teaching Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching to Krystyna Plut, teacher at Holy Trinity Catholic School in Grapevine. The $5,000 award honors Patty Holyfield, whose unflagging devotion to the science and teaching of geology was an inspiration to all who knew her.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Would you like to develop high-tech skills that will virtually guarantee you job success? Get in on an emerging technology that’s expanding at an exponential pace? Learn to integrate highly sophisticated digital information with the problem-solving and analytical skills that will make you indispensable to a wide range of professions? Then check out the Geographic information systems (GIS) program!

Contact

We would be pleased to help you find answers to questions about our programs. Here are ways to reach us.

• Diane Brownlee, director
  972-860-4379 phone
  972-860-4685 fax
• Dennis Maddox
  972-860-4630
• J. Scott Sires, GIS/GPS Technologies
  972-860-4362

E-mail us at bhcEMGI@dcccd.edu, call 972-860-4630 or send mail to:

Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute
Building H, Room H114
3939 Valley View Lane
Farmers Branch, Dallas, TX  75244-4997

Careers

Careers in the Geosciences