Digital Analysis of Geophysical Signals and Waves (DAGSAW)/Filtering part of Workshop 07: Activities
George Jiracek, San Diego State University
Filtering is one of the most important steps in geophysical data recording and processing since it is present in all geophysical analysis. Filtering is explained in the Digital Analysis of Geophysical Signals and ...

Resistivity Profile in an Urban Setting part of Workshop 07: Activities
William Montgomery, New Jersey City University
Activity in an urban setting that includes an electrical resistivity line and hydrogeological information from nearby monitoring wells that enables students to create a meaningful interpretation of subsurface ...

Bac-Ho Consulting Project (Near-Surface Geophysics) part of Workshop 07: Activities
Gregory Baker, Colorado Mesa University
This objective of the lab is to have students think as much about sampling and survey design as the EM and GPR methods. Their goal of will be to design, execute, and report on a survey-using each technique-based on ...

Locating and Measuring Earthquakes Using Real Seismic Data part of Workshop 07: Activities
Kelly Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology
The objective is to locate an earthquake and measure its Richter magnitude using real data recorded by seismographs.

Theoretical estimation of cooling times part of Workshop 07: Activities
Steve Dickman, SUNY at Binghamton
Development of equations governing conduction of heat, culminating in a scaling analysis to easily estimate order-of-magnitude time for magma body to cool. Simple ultimate formulas and wide-ranging geoscience ...

Sequenced writing assignment part of Workshop 07: Activities
Steven Jaume, College of Charleston
An iterative term paper where students include new geophysical data in each new version. This allows the instructor to work closely with the student and point out how different geophysical datasets constrain ...

Ground-penetrating and Space-born Radar part of Workshop 07: Activities
Susan Sakimoto, University of Notre Dame
This is a introductory lecture on ground-penetrating radar and space-born radar, a classroom data classifying activity, and descriptions of field and extended activities.

Atlantic City Mapping Project part of Workshop 07: Activities
Peter Knoop, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Atlantic City project combines magnetic and gravimetric surveys with standard geological field mapping techniques. Lack of outcrops and Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) are a key features of the mapping area, and ...

Laboratory on Reverse Time Migration part of Workshop 07: Activities
John Dunbar, Baylor University
Students use an finite element wave propagation program running on a PC to model the forward and reverse wave propagation steps in reverse time migration. Conceptual understanding is aided by watching the ...

Digital Analysis of Geophysical Signals and Waves/Digital Recording part of Workshop 07: Activities
George Jiracek, San Diego State University
Sampling (digitizing) of geophysical data is explained using animations by multiplications in the time or space domains by Dirac combs and boxcar functions. Pitfalls in this process can render digital data totally ...

Magnetometer Survey part of Workshop 07: Activities
Michael Harris, James Madison University
This activity collects two sets of magnetic data, using two different types of magnetometers, one which collects individual data points, and one that collects continuous readings. Both methods have pros and cons, ...

Seismic Refraction part of Workshop 07: Activities
Robert Cicerone, Bridgewater State University
This lab allows the students to review the relevant formulas for the analysis of seismic refraction data and provides three different data sets to analyze three different geologic settings (three-layer model, ...

Earthquake Magnitude - Linking Earthquake Magnitude and Intensity part of Workshop 07: Activities
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
An activity that helps students link earthquake magnitude and intensity.

The Woodlark Basin as a Natural Laboratory for the Study of the Geological Sciences part of Workshop 07: Activities
Andrew Goodliffe, The University of Alabama
This activity is designed to show introductory physical geology students how geoscientists use many different types of data to solve a geological problem. In this exercise the students integrate basic geological ...

The gravitational attractive force of the English Dept. part of Workshop 07: Activities
Bill Witte, University of Alaska Fairbanks
By measuring the gravitational force in the basement and on the roof of the Gruening Bldg. students will determine the gravitational attraction of the building and its contents and estimate the mass of the ...

Measuring the Gravity Field: "The Stairwell Lab" part of Workshop 07: Activities
Samuel Peavy, Georgia Southwestern State University
This lab teaches the student how to use a gravimeter by measuring gravity in a stairwell. A plot of the data set will yield and estimate of the elevation correction.

Free-Air Gravity part of Workshop 07: Activities
, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Students use gravity measurements to estimate the height to the top of a platform in the Howe-Russell Attrium. This assignment is used to show the precision of gravity measurements and the Free-Air correction

The Birth of the Earth System and the Convection Paradigm part of Workshop 07: Activities
Steve Dickman, SUNY at Binghamton
Convection is a major process operating throughout the Earth System. This combination lecture sequence / problem set activity sets the stage for the appearance and importance of convection within the Earth System, ...

Velocity analysis of the Viking Graben dataset part of Workshop 07: Activities
John Stockwell, Colorado School of Mines
Using the CWP/SU: Seismic Un*x package, perform velocity analysis on the Viking Graben data to create a representation of the velocity field (RMS and approximate interval velocities).

Seismology and Global Earth Structure part of Workshop 07: Activities
Robert Cicerone, Bridgewater State University
This laboratory exercise reviews the basic concepts of how seismic body waves travel through the Earth and how seismologists use these waves to determine global Earth structure. Also, the students analyze waveforms ...