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Geological Mapping of a Virtual Landscape
Mark Helper, The University of Texas at Austin
This virtual mapping exercise is part video game, part map prediction and interpretation. You will navigate a virtual landscape to "collect" outcrops and their field notes, recording your observations on ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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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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Reconnaissance stratigraphy and mapping of the Frying Pan Gulch, MT
Sinan Akciz, California State University-Fullerton
Students are required to create a reconnaissance geologic map and report for a small area (approximately 0.5 sq. mile) Frying Pan Gulch just NW of Dillon, Montana. This project is designed to make students familiar ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Work independently and collaboratively , Reflect on personal strengths/challenges , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Interpret systems and processes , Design a data strategy , Develop an argument, Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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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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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) ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Field Activity, Project, Writing Assignment
Learning Outcomes: Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Communicate clearly , Reflect on personal strengths/challenges , Synthesize geologic data , Collect data, Develop an argument, Interpret systems and processes
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Geologic Mapping of a Virtual Landscape II - Three River Hills
Mark Helper, The University of Texas at Austin
This second virtual mapping exercise builds on the first (Geologic Mapping of a Virtual Landscape), but contains a more complicated geological puzzle to solve. This virtual landscape is also much larger, with a ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Develop an argument, Collect data, Synthesize geologic data , Design a data strategy
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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Geological Mapping of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Joseph Meert, University of Florida
This is useful as a first field mapping exercise (virtual) in a traditional capstone field camp course. Students will map flat-lying, but faulted Mesozoic strata near Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Skills required in ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Reflect on personal strengths/challenges , Design a data strategy , Communicate clearly , Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse – Field Trip 1
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse is a series of 4 virtual field trips that cross the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces in northwestern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. This ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Work independently and collaboratively , Develop an argument, Demonstrate professional behaviors , Communicate clearly , Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse – Field Trip 4
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse is a series of 4 virtual field trips that cross the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces in northwestern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. This ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Develop an argument, Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Sage Hen Flat fieldcamp/capstone activity
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This activity attempts to simulate the process of field-based science investigation for the Sage Hen Flat area of the White Mountains, California. The Sage Hen Flat pluton is Jurassic in age and intrudes ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity, Writing Assignment
Learning Outcomes: Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Develop an argument, Reflect on personal strengths/challenges , Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Collect data, Design a data strategy , Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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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. ...
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
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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 ...
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
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Remote Mapping and Analytical data integration: Coal Creek quartzite and Ralston shear zone, Colorado
Kevin Mahan, University of Colorado at Boulder
This is a combination of an online mapping project (igneous and metamorphic terrain) and a subsequent module for group collaboration with associated analytical datasets (e.g., geochronology and microstructure). ...
Resource Type: Activities:Project, Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Work independently and collaboratively , Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Synthesize geologic data , Design a data strategy , Collect data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Sonar water-column sounding and bathymetry mapping using fish finders
Robert Stewart, University of Houston-University Park
This water-body activity introduces students to the concept of a regular survey pattern, series of sonar measurements, and water-column and bottom mapping. The basic concept is to cast or tow a small sonar ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Demonstrate professional behaviors , Communicate clearly , Collect data, Design a data strategy
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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 ...
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)
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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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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)
See the activity page for details.
Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse – Field Trip 3
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse is a series of 4 virtual field trips that cross the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces in northwestern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. This ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Work independently and collaboratively , Collect data, Develop an argument, Synthesize geologic data , Interpret systems and processes
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Geologic Mapping on Mars
J. Brian Balta, Texas A & M University
This activity consists of several mapping components exploring the JMARS software and completing detailed geologic maps and cross sections on Mars.
Resource Type: Activities:Project, Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Develop an argument, Synthesize geologic data , Design a data strategy , Collect data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Virtual Fieldtrip to Baraboo, WI, with StraboSpot
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This activity is a virtual field trip to the Baraboo area of southern Wisconsin. The StraboSpot digital data system is used to show the data, including the spot functionality to view outcrops at multiple spatial ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Collect data, Develop an argument
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