Initial Publication Date: April 13, 2016

Webinar: Developing Quantitative Skills Using Geoscience Data and MATLAB^®

Thursday, April 28, 2016

1:00 pm Pacific | 2:00 pm Mountain | 3:00 pm Central | 4:00 pm Eastern
Presenters: Lisa Kempler (MathWorks®), Andrew Fischer (University of Tasmania), Charly Bank (University of Toronto), Jackie Caplan-Auerbach (Western Washington University)

Summary

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This 60-minute webinar will showcase the webpages and resources that have been designed collaboratively by SERC and MathWorks® to help you explore how teaching with MATLAB® can enhance the student learning environment in undergraduate Earth Science and related courses. The webinar will explore common challenges of teaching quantitative skills, focusing on teaching data visualization and data analysis, and showcase examples of geoscience teaching activities that overcome these challenges by utilizing MATLAB as a tool. Lisa Kempler from MathWorks® will introduce the webpages and resources available for teaching with MATLAB. Charly Bank from the University of Toronto will showcase the teaching activity, Visualizing outcrop patterns from strike/dip data using MATLAB; Andrew Fischer from the University of Tasmania will showcase the teaching activity, Working with Scientific Data Sets in MATLAB: An Exploration of Ocean Color and Sea Surface Temperature; Jackie Caplan-Auerbach from Western Washington University will showcase the teaching activity, Signal processing and earthquake triggering.

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Goals:

At the end of this webinar, participants will have...

Access to resources about teaching with data, simulations, and models, using MATLAB as a tool
Examples of teaching activities that address some common challenges of teaching quantitative skills
Strategies for teaching visualization and analysis of geoscience data
An opportunity to join a growing community of peer educators

Logistics

Time - 1:00 pm Pacific | 2:00 pm Mountain | 3:00 pm Central | 4:00 pm Eastern
Duration - 1 hour
Format - Online web presentation via Adobe Connect web conference software with questions and discussion. To join the webinar, please visit: http://serc.adobeconnect.com/matlab/ and follow the prompts.
Registration - Registration is closed for this event.
Preparation - There is no advance preparation required for this webinar.

Please email Alice Newman (anewman AT carleton.edu) if you have any questions about this event.

Presenters

Lisa Kempler, MATLAB Community Strategist, MathWorks

Andrew Fischer, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania

Charly Bank, Earth Sciences, University of Toronto

Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, Geology, Western Washington University

Program

1) Welcome and Introductions

2) Introduction to the site and resources – Lisa

3) Common challenges of teaching quant skills

4) Teaching activities that address these challenges

Visualizing outcrop patterns from strike/dip data using MATLAB – Charly
Working with Scientific Data Sets in MATLAB: An Exploration of Ocean Color and Sea Surface Temperature – Andrew
Signal processing and earthquake triggering – Jackie

5) Questions

6) Main takeaways and upcoming opportunities – Lisa

7) Webinar Evaluation