Visualizing the time-dependence of the Earth's magnetic field part of Teaching Activities
Frederik J Simons, Princeton University; Christopher Harig, Princeton University
Visualizing the International Geomagnetic Reference Field. This activity falls under "visualization" of a geophysical field as expressed in spherical harmonics, which has been appreciated by college ...

Isostasy and crustal thickness part of Teaching Activities
Audrey Huerta, Central Washington University
Students will write a matlab code to calculate crustal thickness of 5 locations. Calculations will use topography (determined by running a matlab script that creates a clickable map) and nominal density values, and ...

Introduction to MATLAB for Geomorphology part of Teaching Activities
Risa Madoff, University of North Dakota-Main Campus
This is a lab for a Geomorphology course intended to introduce students to modeling landform evolution by means of applying a common sediment transport law to the erosion of a hillslope over time. MATLAB is used to ...

Working with Scientific Data Sets in Matlab: Intra-annual variability of Sea Surface Temperature and Data Interpolation part of Teaching Activities
Andrew Fischer, university of tasmania
Sea surface temperature is a critical variable that determines biogeographic and distribution patterns of marine organisms. Changes in temperature influence species reproduction and survival and can affect the ...

Computational Course for Geology Majors - Seismology Component Outline part of Teaching Activities
Clark Wilson, The University of Texas at Austin
Lecture and programming assignment topics for a new lower division computation course for Geology majors. Proposed seismology component, to last several weeks in a semester-long course.

Teaching Seismic Data Analysis with the GISMO toolbox for MATLAB part of Teaching Activities
Glenn Thompson, University of South Florida
GISMO is an object-oriented toolbox for seismic data analysis, and a set of tutorials are being built around this. Students learn how to read seismic waveform and event catalog data either from local files or ...

Explore CTD data of vertical structure of ocean part of Teaching Activities
Alexander Stine, San Francisco State University
Students use MATLAB to explore CTD data of vertical structure of ocean.

Thermal Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere part of Teaching Activities
Mark Behn, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The goal of this problem set is to evaluate the thermal evolution of the oceanic lithosphere. As discussed in class, temperature in the oceanic upper mantle is well described by a half-space cooling model, in which ...

Estimating the spreading rate of the Atlantic and Pacific ridges part of Teaching Activities
Audrey Huerta, Central Washington University
Audrey Huerta, Central Washington University This page is a supplement to the original activity description found here Short description of the activity Given maps of bathymetry of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, ...