OGGM-Edu Glaciology Lab 1: What Makes a Glacier?
Lizz Ultee, Middlebury College
This is a three-part class or lab activity that challenges students to define what a glacier is, how it differs from other parts of the cryosphere (such as sea ice), and what kinds of glaciers there are in the ...

Working with Spatial Data in MATLAB
Andrew Fischer, university of tasmania
Students are introduced to two spatial data models, vector and raster. By the end of this activity, students will be able to describe the two different data models and create, import and visualize various spatial ...

Inland water chemistry: the Nordic Lake Survey 1995
Tom Andersen, University of Oslo, Norway
While the ionic composition of surface seawater is basically the same anywhere in the world's oceans, the chemistry of inland waters can vary by orders of magnitude over short distances. In this activity we ...

Calculating and using Unit Hydrograph using Matlab
Negin Hayatbini, University of California-Irvine; Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
We are using the concept of Unit Hydrograph to understand the behavior of a watershed following a rain event and to calculate the runoff following any rainfall event.

OGGM-Edu Glaciology Lab 3: Simulating glacier flow
Lizz Ultee, Middlebury College
This is a lab activity to involve students in understanding glacier flow, and how ice flow is a defining factor in how glaciers react to climate change. The activity introduces two resources: A video of ...

Lab 4: Hurricanes
Jo Martin, Oberlin College; Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College
Students use a Python script to download position, size and foretasted position and size of hurricanes into a spreadsheet from NOAA hurricane forecasts. They then display the actual and foretasted hurricane ...

Risky Business: Using Games to Understand Farmer Decision-making in Sri Lanka
Thushara Gunda, Vanderbilt University
In coupled natural and human systems (such as farming), decision-making is rarely straightforward since it is influenced by myriad factors. This in-class role playing game allows students to step into the shoes of ...

Lab 7: Hawai'i
Jo Martin, Oberlin College; Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College
Students extract streams and watersheds from a DEM for the island of Hawai'i. They then look to seeif there is a correlation between precipitation and the way a stream network develops on a mountain. Students ...

Review for interdisiplinary science course (stream ecology, watersheds)
Cailin Huyck Orr, Carleton College
This is a large-scale participatory activity used to prompt students to review what they have learned and to think actively and cooperatively about the connections between the systems we have discussed prior to the ...

Plume Delineation Exercise
Steven Lev, Towson University
Students are given a data set and base map for a potentially contaminated aquifer and are asked to create a plume delineation map and determine if there is a contaminant source, where it is and who is being most ...