Environmental Geology

The study of Environmental Geology encompasses geologic hazards, natural resources, topical issues of concern to society (e.g. climate change), and provides sound advice about how humanity can live responsibly and sustainably on Earth. This web collection will help undergraduate faculty and students apply new approaches to teaching and learning environmental geology, including use of tested pedagogical methods and strategies and use of emerging scientific advances (e.g. use of models, datasets and visualizations including Google Earth). By integrating these emerging techniques into the classroom, students will be able to benefit from new developments in this exciting field.

Resources for the classroom, lab and field

As preparations for the 2011 workshop continue, we will be putting together collections of teaching activities, visualizations, data sets, and internet resources that can be of valuable assistance to teaching and learning Environmental Geology. We will also be soliciting materials from workshop participants and community members and efforts at the workshop will go into creating new resources that can add to the collections. Watch for new additions to this site in the coming months.

2011-12 Geologic Hazards Webinars

This series of webinars will address some of the many issues surrounding hazards and teaching about hazards in the geosciences. These webinars will also help to generate materials for use in the upcoming face-to-face workshop on Teaching Environmental Geology being held at Montana State University, Bozeman MT, June 3-7, 2012. More information on the webinar series will be available in Fall 2011.

2012 Workshop - Teaching Environmental Geology

This workshop will be held June 3-7, 2012 at the Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together instructors of Environmental Geology to explore ways to effectively teach this topic in undergraduate Earth science courses.

Important results of the workshop will be a reviewed collection of teaching activities, insights on teaching methodology, the development of classroom resources that take advantage of cutting edge technology, and a community network of instructors who will continue work on Environmental Geology after the workshop.

Join the Discussion

This is an email list that will be used for discussion of issues surrounding Teaching Environmental Geology. Ahead of the workshop, it will also be used to distribute information to workshop participants.