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Workshop participants exploring a field site at the Teaching Geomorphology workshop in August 2008 near Fort Collins, CO.

Provenance: John McDaris, Carleton College
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Teaching Geomorphology in the Field

Field-Geomorphology Teaching Activities

(Browse all geomorphology activities)

• Physical Geology: Idaho Field Trip
  
• Take A Hike Assignment
  
• Monument Creek hydraulics project
  
• Mapping a Local Dune Field and Estimating Paleowind Speed and Direction
  
• Study of the Horsepen Creek Stream System
  
• Field Exercise - Caddy Canyon Debris Flows
  
• Diagnosing Landslide Hazard
  
• Florida River Project: Semester-long group project
  
• Stream Terraces
  
• Mapping a local Dune Field, and estimating paleowind speed and direction
  
• Stream Surveying
  
• Snowpack analysis
  
• Riverbank rock identification
  
• Geomorphic Analysis of Soils
  
• Shoreline Geomorphology Lab
  
• Measuring bankfull channel features, bed sediment, and bed load
  
• Drainage Basins Field Lab
  
• Geomorphology Field Research Project
  
• Tombstone Weathering Lab
  
• Soil Field Descriptions and Soil Forming Processes
  
• Mass Wasting and Slope Stability
  
• Rivers and Streams
  
• Chemical Weathering
  
• Fluvial Processes Project - Analysis of Redwood Creek Field Data
  
• Exploring the Bay Area
  

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Fluvial Systems

Stream terraces (PowerPoint 7.3MB Aug6 08)
Donald Rodbell, Union College
Link to the activity/assignment / Teaching Geomorphology 2008

Small details to big picture – field study of a glacio-fluvial gravel quarry near Rotterdam Junction, New York (PowerPoint 11.6MB Aug6 10)
Paul Ryberg and Mitchell McAdoo, Clarion College
Teaching Geoscience in the Field 2010

Stream surveying (PowerPoint 6.4MB Aug6 08)
Karen Williams, Montana State University
Link to the activity/assignment / Teaching Geomorphology 2008

Mass Wasting

A multiple-week exercise on the geotechnical properties of soils and slope stability (PowerPoint 14.9MB Aug1 08)
David Franzi, SUNY Plattsburgh
Teaching Geomorphology 2008

Mass wasting and slope stability (PowerPoint 1.6MB Aug1 08)
Jeff Clark, Lawrence University
Link to the activity/assignment / Teaching Geomorphology 2008

Research Projects and Activities

Salt tracer and area-velocity water discharge (PowerPoint 4.4MB Aug6 08)
Catherine Riihimaki, Drew University
Link to the activity/assignment / Teaching Geomorphology 2008

Geomorphology field research project (PowerPoint 7.3MB Apr28 09)
Jeff Marshall, Cal Poly Pomona University
Link to the activity/assignment / Teaching Geomorphology 2008

Research on coastal erosion, flooding, and ground subsidence as useful case studies for student projects and assignments (Acrobat (PDF) 6.4MB Mar9 08)
William Dupre, University of Houston
Urban Students, Urban Issues 2008

Field guides and databases

The NAGT Field Trip Collection contains a number of geomorphology field trips and examples. The examples in this collection share information about the design of the trips and their important characteristics in addition to providing easy access to field guides.

• Field Trip Safety: This page in the Cutting Edge Teaching in the Field module presents guidance and example policies and forms for addressing safety concerns when taking geoscience students into the field to learn.
  
• The Montana-Yellowstone Geologic Field Guide Database - The Montana-Yellowstone Geologic Field Guide Database is a pilot project for making the field guide literature more accessible and useful to geoscience educators, students, and researchers. While the database is not an exhaustive listing of every published field guide, nor does it provide direct links to the full text of each reference (except for a few unpublished field guides which are reproduced as pdf files), the database is a fully-searchable listing of 50 of the best references for exploring the geology of this fascinating region.
• NAGT's Far West Section Publications
• Field Guides - Illustrated field guides for sites near Bozeman and Big Sky, MT.
• Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database: This database from AGI and the Geoscience Information Society contains bibliographic references and location for published field guides.
• The University of Texas at Austin has compiled a substantial e-library of field trip guides (more info) on their Walter Geology Library website.