Geoscience Education Video Resources
The following resources were collected, in part, during the Spring 2014 virtual workshop on Designing and Using Video in Undergraduate Geoscience Education. Our growing community of contributors continues to add to these resources. Please be a part of this group by joining our email list.
Our Collections
- On the Cutting Edge -- Video Catalog -- Search and browse through an index of videos across the web, created and recommended by members of our community.
- On the Cutting Edge -- Activity Catalog -- Search and browse through an index of video-associated activities created by members of our community.

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YouTube channels
- NOAA's Ocean Explorer
- USGS
- National Park Service
- American Geophysical Union -- AGU
- Consortium for Ocean Leadership
- MARUM TV -- deep-sea HD footage -- ask for permission to use in educational video (they are willing!)
- Under H2O series
- Elementary Level Geoscience Videos -- this ready-to-use collection of YouTube videos by Ethan Baxter is appropriate for younger (grades K-4) audiences and may be particularly useful for elementary educators or for homeschooling.
- Open Source Geoscience Video Tutorials
YouTube geoscience video link compilations from Scott Brande (University of Alabama at Birmingham)Links in the files below were generously provided by Scott Brande (University of Alabama at Birmingham), a participant in the Spring 2014 workshop. Most links are geoscience in nature and direct to particular channels found on YouTube the sponsors of which represent a broad diversity of academia, businesses and corporations, governments, and scientific organizations. A few categories are sparsely populated to illustrate the potential for future discoveries of geoscience video, i.e., animations made for trials).
Part of the "hard" work in locating online pedagogically appropriate videos is the time it takes to both search for channels with documentary content (e.g., climate, natural resources, mining, etc.), but also the time it takes to browse individual channels for videos specific to a particular topic (cleavage of calcite, pyroclastic flow, etc.).
Contributions to these broad categories, and others yet to be identified, will richly reward the community of geoscience educators, and others, and lead to an exponential increase in discovery, documentation, and dissemination.
- Richard Allen - Berkeley Seismo Lab
- JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
- Caltech_Tectonics Observatory
- Cambridge University
- Cochise College
- The COMET Program and MetEd
- The Dutton e-Education Inst.
- Lunar and Planetary Institute - Educational Products
- Educational Multimedia Visualization Center - animations
- Environmental Science Institute at UT Austin
- Frederick Sutton
- Fluidmechanics Section - Delft University of Technology
- Hubble Volume Project
- Impacts, Landslides, Tsunamis, Floods - Steve Ward, UCSantaCruz
- IGRAC on Groundwater
- igpcolorado
- KUCReSIS
- EWERU Multimedia
- Oliver Kreylos' Research and Development Homepage - Augmented Reality Sandbox
- Okreylos - YouTube
- HGSGeoEducation
- Lunar and Planetary Institute - Multimedia
- Lunar and Planetary Institute - Lunar Images
- Geology - YouTube
- my7classes's channel - YouTube
- Princeton Public Lectures
- SPINLab UCLA
- Yaleclimateforum's channel
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- AGU
- AGUvideos's channel - YouTube]
- [link http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/lectures/videos.php '2010 AGU Fall Meeting: Featured Lectures
- Lecture Video Archives
- American Geosciences Institute
- AtmosNews - Air " Planet " People
- Black Smokers: Ore Factories of the Deep
- British Geological Survey
- CarnegieInstitution's channel
- CenterStudyVolcanoes's Channel
- The COMET Program and MetEd
- EarthScope
- ESA_Videos | ESA/Hubble
- ESA - YouTube
- etnatao's channel
- DLR - German Aerospace Center
- Geological Society of London
- HubbleESA - YouTube
- International Astronautical Federation
- IODP - Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
- Iris Eno
- JAXA Channel
- LPI and CLSE Resources
- From the Earth to the Moon
- MBARI's Video
- Montserrat Volcano Observatory
- NCAREOL
- NCAR Visualization & Enabling Tech. Channel
- National Oceanography Centre
- NEEScomm
- New Scientist Explanimations
- earth @newscientistvideo
- Neptune Canada
- OceanLeadership
- oneoceanonline's channel
- The Planetary Society
- PolarDiscovery from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- The Royal Society
- SwRI 2012 new model
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
Other online collections
- TEDEd -- Earth and Space Science
- PhET -- Interactive Simulations -- Earth Science (UC Boulder)
- U.S. Department of the Interior -- Weekly Videos: 10 minute talks on a variety of topics.
- David Archer's Video Lecture Series on Global Warming and related topics
- SJ-Earth Operators Manual by Dr. Richard Alley -- climate, CO2 and sustainable energy
- Interactive Oceans -- Explore an underwater volcano with UW OOI scientists
- Direct measurement video library for Physics -- from Pedagogies in Action
- JOVE -- Journal of Visualized Experiments -- lab and experimental and field techniques
- IRIS -- Seismology and Plate Tectonics Animations/Videos
- Earth Rocks! (Open-Source Geoscience Video Tutorial -- hosted by City College of San Francisco, Earth Sciences)
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