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29 matchesLearning Outcomes
- Design a data strategy 4 matches Design a field strategy to collect or select data in order to answer a geologic question.
- Collect data 5 matches Collect accurate and sufficient data on field relationships and record these using disciplinary conventions (field notes, map symbols, etc.).
- Synthesize geologic data 7 matches Synthesize geologic data and integrate with core concepts and skills into a cohesive spatial and temporal scientific interpretation.
- Interpret systems and processes 7 matches Interpret earth systems and past/current/future processes using multiple lines of spatially distributed evidence.
- Develop an argument 8 matches Develop an argument that is consistent with available evidence and uncertainty.
- Communicate clearly 6 matches Communicate clearly using written, verbal, and/or visual media (e.g., maps, cross-sections, reports) with discipline-specific terminology appropriate to your audience.
- Work independently and collaboratively 5 matches Work effectively independently and collaboratively (e.g., commitment, reliability, leadership, open for advice, channels of communication, supportive, inclusive).
- Reflect on personal strengths/challenges 1 match Reflect on personal strengths and challenges (e.g. in study design, safety, time management, independent and collaborative work).
- Demonstrate professional behaviors 4 matches Demonstrate behaviors expected of professional geoscientists (e.g., time management, work preparation, collegiality, health and safety, ethics).
Capstone Field Experience
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Getting started with Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry
Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry method uses overlapping images to create a 3D point cloud of an object or landscape. It can be applied to everything from fault scarps to landslides to topography. This ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Work independently and collaboratively , Design a data strategy
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Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology: A virtual field experience using Google Earth, GIS, and TAK
Rachel Bosch, Northern Kentucky University
Students will have the opportunity to select and virtually explore the hydrogeology and geomorphology of a karst landscape using Google Earth (or perhaps Google Mars or Google Moon if they so choose), lidar ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project, Lab Activity, Writing Assignment
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Reflect on personal strengths/challenges , Develop an argument, Interpret systems and processes , Collect data, Design a data strategy , Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Working with Point Clouds in CloudCompare and Classifying with CANUPO
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado
This exercise will walk you through 1) basic operations and use in CloudCompare, and 2) use of an Open-Source plugin in CloudCompare called CANUPO (http://nicolas.brodu.net/en/recherche/canupo/) that allows for ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Interpret systems and processes , Develop an argument, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Measuring the Inclination and Declination of the Earth's magnetic field with a smartphone
Avradip Ghosh, University of Houston-University Park
The poles of the Earth's magnetic field are not precisely aligned with the geographic north and south poles and, in fact, vary continuously. This activity introduces to students the Earth's magnetic ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Project, Lab Activity
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Geology of Yosemite Valley
Nicolas Barth, University of California-Riverside
This is a four-part module designed to be flexible in duration and student grade-level. (1) Geology of Yosemite Valley Virtual Field Trip. A 43-stop web-based Google Earth tour with embedded views, hyperlinked ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Writing Assignment, Lab Activity, Project
Learning Outcomes: Interpret systems and processes , Communicate clearly , Develop an argument, Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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SIGkit (Software for Introductory Geophysics toolkit) for modelling and visualization of data
Charly Bank, University of Toronto
Predicting what geophysical data may look like and making basic inferences from data are critical learning outcomes of introductory geophysics courses whether they happen in a classroom or in a field setting. This ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Problem Set
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Collect data, Design a data strategy
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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Virtual Field Trip to the Cagles Mill Outcrop, Indiana
Max Christie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
During this virtual field trip students will write sedimentary facies descriptions, draw a stratigraphic column, and develop a set of paleogeographic maps of the Cagles Mill Spillway outcrop. This site is a ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity, Lab Activity
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Fold Analysis Challenge
Declan De Paor, Old Dominion University; Mladen Dorevic, Old Dominion University; Paul Karabinos, Williams College; Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College; Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Fold Analysis Challenge (FAC) uses Google Earth and a customized Google Earth interface to help students visualize the orientations of eroded dipping sedimentary layers and to visualize the geometries of folds ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Synthesize geologic data , Collect data
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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Surviving Extinction, A Journey Through Time
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Explore prehistoric environments over the past 350 million years, make good decisions to avoid deadly predators, and discover real expedition sites as you chart your own path through time. 99% of all species that ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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Introduction to Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
In this assignment, students analyze terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) data in a similar manner as done previously with structure from motion (SfM) data, earlier in the course. Students compare and contrast the SfM ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Work independently and collaboratively , Develop an argument, Interpret systems and processes , Synthesize geologic data
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Virtual Landscapes Geological Mapping
Jacqueline Houghton, University of Leeds
A virtual landscape is a virtual reality environment designed to develop geologic mapping and field skills. They include natural landscapes where the geology can be mapped, and interactive 3D block models of ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity
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Exploring the Grand Canyon: Mystery of Blacktail Canyon
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
DEM of Difference (DoD)
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado
This assignment builds on students' point cloud and raster differencing skills practiced on their SfM and TLS data in the previous assignment. In this assignment, the students use two lidar-derived raster ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Communicate clearly , Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Interpret systems and processes , Synthesize geologic data
Exploring the Grand Canyon: Layers and Superposition
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Mars Virtual Field Camp: Geologic Mapping of Jezero Crater
Casey J. Duncan, New Mexico State University; , University of Utah
This virtual capstone field mapping project is centered around geologic mapping of Jezero crater, Mars and is composed of six modules and four synchronous live online lectures. Students work in mapping groups (of ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Writing Assignment, Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity, Project
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Demonstrate professional behaviors , Work independently and collaboratively , Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Collect data, Design a data strategy , Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Marble Bar, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The Marble Bar Chert of Western Australia, is one of the earliest sedimentary deposits on Earth. The Marble Bar Chert, along with the presence of pillow basalts, could be an important part of Earth's early ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Knossos Ancient Lake Environment, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The 2.73 Ga Knossos Locality is a succession of clastic and carbonate rocks outcropping along the southern margin of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. It hosts abundant, diverse and exceptionally ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Banded Iron Formations, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The banded iron formations (BIFs) of Karijini Gorge in Western Australia are distinctive units of sedimentary rock that are almost always of Precambrian age. This unique formation is the largest iron deposit on ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Living Microorganisms, Shark Bay, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
3,000 years ago microbes started building up stromatolites in Shark Bay, Western Australia. These structures are the earliest signs of life on Earth, and are considered the longest continuing biological lineage. ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Virtual field trip to Giant's Causeway, Ireland
Jill Schneiderman, Vassar College
This online assignment takes the students on a virtual field trip to Giant's Causeway in northern Ireland. It begins with a brief video of the geological site, includes some questions relevant to the history ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Classroom Activity
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Develop an argument
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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