Resources for Teaching Geophysics in the 21st Century
Tools for Teaching
- Classroom activities for teaching geophysics
- Visualizations that can be useful in teaching geophysics concepts to students.
- Over 100 web sites to help you teach geophysics, organized by geophysics topic
Geophysical Instrument Registry
This 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.Field trip safety
Is your department thinking about developing field trip policy documents and forms? If so, we have some sample forms (including one patterned after the OSHA health and safety forms used by consulting firms) plus a short rationale for adopting policies to address the issue of the risks inherent in taking students into the field.
Plate Boundary Observatory Data from UNAVCO
The Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) component of Earthscope is a geodetic observatory designed to study the three-dimensional strain field resulting from deformation across the active boundary zone between the Pacific and North American plates in the western United States. The observatory consists of arrays of GPS receivers and strainmeters. The UNAVCO web site has a general resource page and a resource page for faculty who want to use near real time plate boundary data in the classroom. These pages include both information for teaching geodesy and examples of particularly illustrative GPS data sets. UNAVCO also maintains a GPS Data Archive of all data.
Workshops
2012 Workshop - Teaching Structural Geology, Geophysics, and Tectonics Workshop
What are the grand challenges, leading edge ideas, and frontiers in structural geology, geophysics, and tectonics? How can we teach these ideas effectively in undergraduate courses? What innovative strategies can we use to integrate structural geology, geophysics, and tectonics in the courses that we teach for majors? What role can GIS and GPS analysis play in teaching these disciplines? This workshop will be an exciting collaborative effort that will address these and related issues in order to help faculty teach undergraduate structural geology, geophysics and tectonics more effectively.
2011 Workshop - Visualizing Seismic Waves for Teaching and Research
As a part of the 2011 series of workshops, On the Cutting Edge is offering a virtual workshop on Visualizing Seismic Waves for Teaching and Research. The workshop consists of six 2-hour sessions on Wednesday afternoons over the course of February through April, 2011. For more information or to register for the workshop, see the workshop website.2010 Workshop - Understanding the Deep Earth
This virtual workshop focused on the exciting new science that is emerging from the study of the deep earth using a variety of approaches. This is an opportunity for participants to survey the breadth of new information that is currently available through recent research about the deep earth, and to explore new ways to integrate this information into undergraduate geoscience course work.2010 Workshop - Teaching Geodesy in the 21st Century
As a part of the on the cutting Edge Follow-On Workshop program, a workshop on Teaching Geodesy in the 21st Century was held at the 2010 UNAVCO Science Workshop in Boulder, CO, on March 8, 2010. See the web page for more details.
2007 Workshop - Teaching Geophysics in the 21st Century
A workshop for teaching geophysics in the 21st Century, was held August 12-15 2007. The workshop took place at the geologically exciting and scenic location of the University of Michigan's Camp Davis Rocky Mountain Field Station in Jackson, WY. The workshop program contains links to all workshop presentations. The photos at left and below show the happy participants.
