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Unit 5: Societal Implications of Climate Change: Stakeholder Report
Sea-level rise due to the melting of glaciers and ice sheets and ocean thermal expansion has significant societal and economic consequences. In this final unit, students prepare a summary of the impacts of sea ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Geophysics:Gravity, Geodesy, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Global Change and Climate:Sea Level Change, Environmental Science, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology
Resource Type: Course Module, Activities
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Quantitative Skills: Estimation, Probability and Statistics:Data Trends, Graphs
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Data:GPS/GNSS, Geophysics GPS/GNSS, InSAR, Gravity, Altimetry
Collection Source: GETSI
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Unit 2: Kilauea Hawai'i - Monday Morning Meeting at the USGS Hawai'i Volcano Observatory
How do volcanologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitor volcanoes? In a jigsaw format, students first work in teams to learn one of the four volcano monitoring data sets (GPS, Tilt, Seismic and InSAR) and ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Seismology
Resource Type: Course Module, Activities
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Quantitative Skills: Graphs
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data:InSAR, GPS/GNSS, Data:Tiltmeters/strainmeters, Geophysics Seismic, Tiltmeter/strainmeter, Data:GPS/GNSS, Seismic
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Unit 3: Yellowstone is active, but will it erupt?
An eruption at Yellowstone could have devastating effects on large areas of the United States and Canada, but what is the likelihood of such an eruption occurring? This unit has students explore seismic data for ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Seismology
Resource Type: Activities, Course Module
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Quantitative Skills: Problem Solving:Equations, Algebra, Graphs
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data:InSAR, GPS/GNSS, Data:GPS/GNSS, Seismic, Geophysics Seismic
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Measuring earthquake and volcano activity from space
This tutorial is based on real InSAR observations acquired over the Andes from 1992 to 2005. It will get the student acquainted with InSAR observations and basic concepts of space geodesy.

Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
EarthScope Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data: Geophysics Data:InSAR