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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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
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)

Go with the Flow: A Virtual Field Experience on Groundwater Flow
Megan Brown, Northern Illinois University
This virtual field module will introduce students to water level data collection, a key skill in hydrology, hydrogeology, and environmental field work. Students will use site data to analyze and interpret ...

Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Groundwater flow
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Synthesize geologic data , Communicate clearly , Collect data, Design a data strategy
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

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)

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

Sun Canyon Virtual Field Trip in Google Earth
Andrew Laskowski, Montana State University-Bozeman
Sun Canyon is a classic traverse through an imbricate fault zone along the Rocky Mountain front in northern Montana. It provides world-class exposures of fold-thrust belt structures in the foothills of the ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Interpret systems and processes , Communicate clearly , Develop an argument, Synthesize geologic data

Ground Control Points for Structure from Motion
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
This assignment uses real-time kinematic GNSS methods to establish ground control points used in the Day 3 Part 2: Analysis of River Characteristics structure from motion (SfM) activity. Day 3 Part 1 - This ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Interpret systems and processes , Develop an argument, Demonstrate professional behaviors , Work independently and collaboratively , Synthesize geologic data , Collect data, Design a data strategy
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

Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at McCauley, WV
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at McCauley, WV 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 ...

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

Point Cloud and Raster Change Detection
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
In this assignment, students difference point cloud and raster data sets to compare structure from motion (SfM) and terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) results. They interpret error in these methods used for ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Project, Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Communicate clearly , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Work independently and collaboratively , Interpret systems and processes , Synthesize geologic data

Jurassic Quad Online Geologic Mapping Project
Andrew Laskowski, Montana State University-Bozeman
This is an online geologic mapping activity designed to mimic the experience of conducting a geologic mapping project over several days in a field area. Students download a physical topographic basemap and then ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Project
Learning Outcomes: Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Communicate clearly , Develop an argument, Synthesize geologic data , Interpret systems and processes

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.

Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science:Mars:Sedimentary Processes, Volcanology/Petrology, Images/Maps/Visualizations
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)

OpenTopography Data Sources and Topographic Differencing
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado
In spring 2020, the world was hit by a pandemic that spread globally by March, causing universities and most of the world to move to remote means. Summer field camps, long hailed as a rite of passage in the ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Resource Type: Activities:Project, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Demonstrate professional behaviors , Synthesize geologic data , Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Collect data

Reconnaissance mapping of the Block Mountain area, MT
Sinan Akciz, California State University-Fullerton
For this module, students are given to task of preparing a reconnaissance report for an oil company that is interested in exploring an area near Dillon, MT. In an effort to keep this field site in a pristine ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Work independently and collaboratively , Reflect on personal strengths/challenges , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Collect data, Design a data strategy , Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)

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