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Global MODIS Landcover part of SERC Web Resource Collection
New NASA satellite-generated land cover maps are providing scientists with a detailed picture of the distribution of Earths ecosystems and land use Scientists can better determine how vegetation is ...
Impervious Data of the Baltimore Area. part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This short video from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows an image of the Baltimore Maryland area taken with the Landsat satellite. Dates ranging from 1986, 1990, 1996, 2000. For over 26 ...
Placing Urban Schools at the Forefront of the Revolution in Earth Science Education part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Space-age technologies have revolutionized Earth science, but this revolution has yet to extend to Earth science education. This article points out that urban schools can be at the forefront of ...
Geoscience Education for Realtors, Appraisers, Home Inspectors, and Homeowners part of SERC Web Resource Collection
As urban development encroaches onto less suitable sites, knowledge of the connection between the ground beneath one's home and the home itself becomes increasingly critical to the homebuyer. This ...
NewsHour Extra Lesson Plan: Hazardous Chemicals in your Neighborhood part of SERC Web Resource Collection
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to understand hazardous chemicals and their effects; the importance of cleaning up these materials; identify hazardous waste sites in their own ...
Beating the Heat in the World's Big Cities part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article describes the urban heat island phenomenon and provides an overview of a research project investigating the effect as seen in New York City. Topics include the large proportion of ...
Analyzing Land Use Change In Urban Environments part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This four-page fact sheet provides a brief summary of the analysis of land use in urban environments. Topics include the rapid growth in urban populations, some of the methods used to analyze land ...
Urban Geology (GEOL357) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This webpage describes the Urban Geology class at California State University - Los Angeles. The course explores the natural environment in and around urban population centers and looks at how ...
Geology of the Fargo-Moorehead Region part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a website created by University of North Dakota - Fargo faculty member Dr. Donald Schwert detailing the urban geology of the region surrounding Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN. There is a good ...
SATIS and Urban Geoscience Initiative part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The SATIS and Urban Geoscience Initiative focuses on three areas of theoretical and applied geoscience research: 1) integrated approaches to stratigraphic modeling; 2) reservoir characterization and ...
