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Design a data strategy 10 matches Design a field strategy to collect or select data in order to answer a geologic question.
Collect data 14 matches Collect accurate and sufficient data on field relationships and record these using disciplinary conventions (field notes, map symbols, etc.).
Synthesize geologic data 15 matches Synthesize geologic data and integrate with core concepts and skills into a cohesive spatial and temporal scientific interpretation.
Interpret systems and processes 12 matches Interpret earth systems and past/current/future processes using multiple lines of spatially distributed evidence.
Develop an argument 16 matches Develop an argument that is consistent with available evidence and uncertainty.
Communicate clearly 14 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 9 matches Work effectively independently and collaboratively (e.g., commitment, reliability, leadership, open for advice, channels of communication, supportive, inclusive).
Reflect on personal strengths/challenges 2 matches Reflect on personal strengths and challenges (e.g. in study design, safety, time management, independent and collaborative work).
Demonstrate professional behaviors 8 matches Demonstrate behaviors expected of professional geoscientists (e.g., time management, work preparation, collegiality, health and safety, ethics).

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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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Work independently and collaboratively , Design a data strategy

Karst Hydrogeology: A virtual field introduction using Google Earth and GIS
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, lidar data-sourced DEM(s) and geologic maps, and GIS software (QGIS) ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Writing Assignment, Project, Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Develop an argument, Reflect on personal strengths/challenges , Synthesize geologic data , Collect data, Interpret systems and processes

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Karst, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water
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)

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
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)

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Magnetism/Paleomag
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Project, Lab Activity

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology
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)

Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at Lough Fee
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise is designed to simulate an introductory field mapping exercise. Students load a KML file in Google Earth that includes real outcrop data in the form of dots and orientation ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Interpret systems and processes , Develop an argument, Design a data strategy , Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Extinction and Diversity , Paleoecology , Biostratigraphy/Biogeography , Online Resources/Computer Software , Evolution , Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Exploration Methods
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

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity, Lab Activity

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Synthesize geologic data , Collect data
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone

Tidepooling Field trip (online)
Katryn Wiese, City College of San Francisco
Tidepooling Field Trip online (developed for remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic); students will watch video and review photos to simulate a field experience as they explore Pillar Point tidepools (as they ...

Subject: Biology:Diversity:Censuses, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone

Quaternary mapping in Bells Canyon as an introduction to ArcGIS Pro
Karen Gran, University of Minnesota-Duluth
This lab is intended to take a GIS novice and introduce them to mapping in ArcGIS Pro by producing a Quaternary map of Bells Canyon in Utah. It can be used as a first GIS exercise to introduce select skills to the ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Work independently and collaboratively , Communicate clearly , Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)

Using StraboSpot for Field Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
Casey J. Duncan, New Mexico State University
This module uses StraboSpot (free mobile app for iOS and Android devices and web API, backend database) and two Utah datasets to facilitate teaching field methods related to sedimentology and stratigraphy. The data ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Stratigraphy
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity, Field Activity, Project
Learning Outcomes: Synthesize geologic data , Communicate clearly , Collect data, Design a data strategy
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone

Magnetometry at home: a hands-on survey with your smartphone
Charly Bank, University of Toronto
Using a free app downloaded to their smartphone or tablet device students engage in collecting magnetic field data. Students have to design and document a survey, and are encouraged to do simple quality control. ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Magnetism/Paleomag
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Communicate clearly , Synthesize geologic data , Design a data strategy , Collect data

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity

Structure from Motion for Analysis of River Characteristics
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
In this assignment, students conduct a Structure from Motion (SfM) survey of the Sheep Draw field site along the Poudre River near Greely, CO. The end product is a point cloud used in additional assignments to ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity, Lab Activity, Project
Learning Outcomes: Interpret systems and processes , Develop an argument, Synthesize geologic data , Design a data strategy , Collect data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
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

Seismology with smart phones and Raspberry Shake geophone systems
Robert Stewart, University of Houston-University Park
This activity introduces students to the concept of vibration recording and the monitoring of seismic shaking. The basic concept is to use motion-sensing devices to understand the character of vibrations and ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Collect data, Design a data strategy

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology
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)

Introduction to Planetary Mapping
Alexandra Davatzes, Temple University
This is an introduction to photogeologic/geomorphologic mapping of a planetary surface. The goal of this project is to help students learn the components of a geologic map and try to use all of their undergraduate ...

Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone

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