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Glacial-Interglacial Climate
Nicholas Balascio
Students explore global climate change on glacial-interglacial timescales and the relationship between glacial cycles and insolation. Students are asked to graph several paleoclimate datasets, explore relationships and trends in the datasets by answering guided questions, and to synthesize their findings in a written summary. The goals are for students to gain an understanding of longterm climate variability, the importance of insolation as well as feedback mechanisms on climate, and to be able to better contextualize modern climate change.
Diffuse Pollution - It's all around us!
Aditi Bhaskar
This activity is the first one in the course and is designed to get students to recognize the relevance and prevalence of diffuse pollution in their local environment and neighborhood.
Fracture initiation and propagation
Pragnyadipta Sen
Activity to demonstrate stress concentration, initiation of fracture and propagation of fractures by using different varieties of cheese to imitate different real conditions.
Meet the Moon
Sonia Tikoo
In small groups, students will use Google Earth to describe and make preliminary interpretations about major geological features on the Moon. This allows them to work in teams, learn to describe features, formulate hypotheses, and may serve as an intro to GIS type software.
Flood Hazards of the Pacific Northwest
Kristin Sweeney
This assignment applies principles of flood hazards discussed in lecture to a specific community in the Pacific Northwest. The activity draws on data sets used for flood prediction (FEMA flood maps, USGS gage data), and focuses on a geographic area that students have been learning about all term.
Debate on Scientific Accuracy in Disaster Movies
Aubreya Adams
In this exercise, students are asked to imagine that in the year 2030, the Academy Awards are debating requiring a verification of "reasonable scientific accuracy" or a disclaimer for movies to be considered for an award. Students are assigned different specialties and a split into a team of judges, a team arguing for the requirement, and a team arguing against.
Winogradsky Column
Brandi Reese
Calculating and plotting diversity estimates
Journal on hydrology literature
Peter Levi
To complement the introductory hydrology textbook, I assign a paper from the scientific literature that the students must read and respond to prior to the class. We then discuss the paper, examining the experimental design, discuss any questions about the results, and evaluate the conclusions. The papers put the theoretical underpinnings of hydrology into a broader context and provide the students with a greater appreciation for the diversity of research related to hydrology and fluid dynamics.
Phase Diagrams
Sara Mana
the activity is testing the students understanding of phase diagrams.