Teaching Environmental Geology in the Field
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Field-Environmental Geology Teaching Activities
Browse all environmental geology activities.
- Monument Creek hydraulics project
- Take A Hike Assignment
- Round Robin Field Methods Protocols for Improved Outcomes
- An integrated view of the Glendale Landscape
- Environmental Geochemistry Class Project
- Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon Coast to Northern California
- Mapping a Local Dune Field and Estimating Paleowind Speed and Direction
- Roadside and Engineering Geology of Auke Bay, Juneau, Alaska
- Evaluating the Effects of Local Energy Resource Development
- Green Landscape and Environmental Policy
- Reducing pressure on a wastewater treatment plant to accelerate remediation of a polluted harbour
- Semester Lab Research in Marine Geology
- Global Warming in the Field
- Calculation of Stream Discharge
- Florida River Project: Semester-long group project
- Maritime Aquarium, Norwalk CT - Field Trip Assignment
- Wastewater Treatment
- Study of the Horsepen Creek Stream System
- Walking Field Trip to the San Andreas Fault
- Using spring water chemistry to understand groundwater inputs
- independent soil investigation project
- Battle of Lava and Life: Crater Lake National Park and Newberry Volcanic National Monument
- Diagnosing Landslide Hazard
- Columbia Plateau North Cascades National Park and vicinity to Whidbey Island WA
- Field Exercise - Caddy Canyon Debris Flows
RSS
Urban Environment
Student research projects on urban wetlands (Acrobat (PDF) 6.9MB Mar9 08)
Solomon Isiorho, Indiana-Purdue University, Ft. Wayne
Urban Students, Urban Issues 2008
Urban Environmental Excursions: field trips focused on
local environmental themes (Acrobat (PDF) 1.5MB Mar9 08)
Lawrence Lemke, Wayne State University
Urban Students, Urban Issues 2008
Developing an urban-focused environmental science curriculum (PowerPoint 241kB Mar9 08)
William Montgomery, New Jersey City University
Urban Students, Urban Issues 2008
Environmental
Service Learning and Community Partnerships: Applying Science-Based
Solutions to Urban Environmental Problems
Kara Salazar, Indiana University-Purdue University
Using Field Observations and Experiences to Teach Geoscience 2004
Kara Salazar, Indiana University-Purdue University
Using Data to Teach Earth Processes 2003
Pollution
Coal-fired Power Plants, Superfund Sites, and Residential Neighborhoods
- Environmental Justice Field Trips: an experiential learning
opportunity for undergraduates (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 3.2MB Jun3 12)
Katherine Bulinski, Bellarmine University
Teaching Environmental Geology 2012
Acid Mine Drainage Field-Lab Experience Round I (PowerPoint 4.6MB Jun14 05)
Greg Druschel, University of Vermont
Teaching Geochemistry 2005
Student research projects on the impact of pharmaceuticals and personal
care products on the environment (PowerPoint 2MB Mar9 08)
Syed Hasan, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Urban Students, Urban Issues 2008
Investigating
Contaminant Transport and Environmental Justice Issues in a Local
Watershed Through Service Learning Projects with Sierra Club (PowerPoint 1.3MB Feb3 10)
Jennifer Houghton, Rhodes College
Watch the Screencast (Flash Video 142.7MB Feb5 10) / Teaching
Service Learning 2010
Research Experiences
Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Investigating Perturbations to a Lake Ecosystem (Acrobat (PDF) 17.5MB Aug11 10)
Tara Curtin, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Teaching Geoscience in the Field 2010
Integrating student-led research in environmental geology into
traditional field courses: a case study from James Madison University's
field course in Ireland (PowerPoint 4.6MB Aug14 10)
Scott Eaton, Christine May, and Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
Teaching Geoscience in the Field 2010
An NSF-funded field research experience for minority
undergrads at Storm Peak Laboratory (PowerPoint 7MB Mar9 08)
Gannet Hallar, Desert Research
Institute, University of Nevada
Geoscience Research at Storm Peak /
Urban Students, Urban
Issues 2008
Self-guided field trips in geoscience instruction (Acrobat (PDF) 87kB Mar9 08)
Eryn Klosko, SUNY/Westchester Community College
Urban Students, Urban Issues 2008
Teaching Environmental Geochemistry as a Service-Learning Course (PowerPoint 687kB Jun14 05)
Tim Ku, Wesleyan University
Teaching Geochemistry 2005
Field Guides and Databases
The NAGT Field Trip Collection contains more than 50 field trips and examples. The examples in this
collection share information about the design of the trips and their
important characteristics in addition to providing easy access to field
guides. In addition, you can find information for teaching in the field in these other collections:
- Field Trip Safety: This
page in the Cutting Edge Teaching in the Field module presents guidance
and example policies and forms for addressing safety concerns when
taking geoscience students into the field to learn.
- The Montana-Yellowstone Geologic Field Guide Database - The Montana-Yellowstone Geologic Field Guide Database is a pilot project for making the field guide literature more accessible and useful to geoscience educators, students, and researchers. While the database is not an exhaustive listing of every published field guide, nor does it provide direct links to the full text of each reference (except for a few unpublished field guides which are reproduced as pdf files), the database is a fully-searchable listing of 50 of the best references for exploring the geology of this fascinating region.
- NAGT's Far West Section Publications
- Field Guides - Illustrated field guides for sites near Bozeman and Big Sky, MT.
- Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database: This database from AGI and the Geoscience Information Society contains bibliographic references and location for published field guides.
- The University of Texas at Austin has compiled a substantial e-library of field trip guides (more info) on their Walter Geology Library website.
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