Susan Zimmerman

Dating Students: Relative vs. Numerical Time part of Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
This activity introduces students to the fundamental ideas of relative versus radiometric dating, using the students themselves as a sample population. In the first half, the students attempt to order the people in ...

Teaching Time Essay part of Rates and Time:Workshop 2012:Essays
Susan Zimmerman, Center for AMS, Lawrence Livermore National Lab I discovered that I was a geologist as a freshman Russian major at Dickinson College in Carlisle PA, and learned that I loved teaching while working ...

Introduction to the principles and processes of radiometric dating part of Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
Outline of lecture topics and hands-on activities for introducing radiometric dating.