Teaching Geomorphology in the 21st Century

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Tools for Teaching

• An growing online collection of activities and assignments, contains a variety of examples of field, lab, classroom, homework, and GIS activities for teaching geomorphology. We hope that you will contribute your activities/assignments to the collection.
• An online collection of syllabi for undergraduate courses, including those in geomorphology. We hope that you will contribute your syllabus to the collection.

Field Trip Safety

Our field trip safety site provides links to a variety of field safety resources, including sample field trip policy forms (one of which is patterned after the OSHA health and safety forms used by consulting firms), a short rationale for adopting policies to address the issue of the risks inherent in taking students into the field, and links to other resources on field trip safety.

Tombstone Weathering Data Base Project

Many of you who teach geomorphology have a local tombstone weathering rate lab. We're assembling a data base of tombstone weathering rates from across the country and hope that you contribute to the data base. As soon as we have an adequate number of submissions, we will post the data base and continue to add to it over time. The sooner you submit your data, the sooner we will have the data base up!!

New USGS Publication on Geomorphic Terms

The USGS has just announced a new downloadable publication on geomorphic terms:

Osterkamp, W.R., 2008, Annotated definitions of selected geomorphic terms and related terms of hydrology, sedimentology, soil science, and ecology: U. S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 2008-1217, 49 p.

Teaching Geomorphology Email List

Join our geomorphology email list. Share insights, ask questions, or network with other faculty. The link above will also provide access for list members to the email list archives and allow you to unsubscribe.

Module on Geochemical Instrumentation and Analysis

This module provides an on-line tutorial of the analytical techniques commonly used to characterize geological materials. The goal is to help novices (such as students or scientists working out of their field) to gain an understanding of mineralogical, petrological and geochemical analytical techniques. This module covers X-ray crystallography, electron microbeam, elemental analysis, mass spectrometers and more. See the entire list of techniques covered on this site.

Data Base of Geochemical Analytical Equipment

Our Analytical Instrument Database provides a browseable list of institutions who are willing to provide access to their analytical instrumentation for researchers, lab managers, instructors and students looking to gain access to analytical instruments such as SEM, electron microbeam, x-ray diffraction, x-ray fluorescence and more. The data base provides contact and terms-of-use policies. You can also add your equipment to the data base.

Geophysical Instrument Registry

Out Geophysical Instrument Registry is a directory of geophysical instruments available for use on research projects or for student work. You can add your instrument to the registry, or search for instruments.

2008 Workshop for Faculty

A workshop for teaching geomorphology in the 21st Century, was held July 28-August 1, 2008. The workshop took place at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. The workshop program contains links to all workshop presentations. The photo at right shows the happy participants and the courses and activities that they submitted to the collection.