Program & Course Materials

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Before the course

Pre-workshop Meetings

June 22-25 we will hold a series of pre-workshop meetings to help participants become more familiar with the near-surface geophysical methods before they see them in the field. Participants should attend (or watch the recording) for at least 1) their primary focus method and 2) GPS/GNSS. People are encouraged to attend all the sessions to learn more. Real-time attendance is recommended, but session recordings will be provided below for those who need to watch afterward.

  • Monday June 22
    • Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) - 8 am HI, 10 am AK, 11 am PT, 12 pm MT, 1 pm CT, 2 pm ET
  • Tuesday June 23
    • Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) - 8 am HI, 10 am AK, 11 am PT, 12 pm MT, 1 pm CT, 2 pm ET
  • Wednesday June 24
    • Seismic refraction - 10 am HI, 12 pm AK, 1 pm PT, 2 pm MT, 3 pm CT, 4 pm ET
  • Thursday June 25
    • GPS/GNSS -10 am HI, 12 pm AK, 1 pm PT, 2 pm MT, 3 pm CT, 4 pm ET

During the course

The workshop will be held in the Geophysics Department on the Colorado School of Mines campus.

  • Primary meeting room: East Classroom Building (ECB) 250
  • Other breakout rooms will include: ECB 240, 220, 210

Participant Share Folder 'Primary workshop slides' 'Implementation Planning Workspaces' 'Full PDF of Workshop Guidebook'

Tuesday July 7 - Introduction to the workshop and geophysics methods

  • Breakfast - Available from 6:00 am at Hampton Inn for people staying at the hotel
  • 7:30 am - Shuttle departs from Hampton Inn entrance for Mines campus
  • 8:00 am - Workshop start (ECB 250)
  • 9:45 am - Break
  • 10:00 am
    • Teaching module investigation and discussion
    • Introduction to Emlid GNSS/GPS instruments
  • 11:30 pm - Lunch (on your own)
  • 1:00 pm - Field time with instruments (Geophysics Discovery Lab - Kafadar Common)
  • ~3:00 pm - Teams return inside for initial data processing work (breakout rooms)
    • Take a 15-minute Break as your team comes back inside
  • 4:30 pm - Planning for Day 2 - come back to rm 250
  • 4:50 pm - Road check
  • 5:00 pm - Adjourn
  • 5:10 pm - Shuttle departs for Hampton Inn
  • Dinner (on your own)

Wednesday July 8 - More practice with geophysics methods

  • Breakfast - Available from 6:00 am at Hampton Inn for people staying at the hotel
  • 7:30 am - Shuttle departs from Hampton Inn entrance for Mines campus
  • 8:00 am - Make plans for participant-led surveys (ECB 250)
  • Before 9:00 am - move to instrument storage (ECB 240) to get instruments and head outside
  • ~11:00 am - Teams return inside for initial data analysis (breakout rooms)
  • ~12:00 pm - Lunch (on your own -- arrange times in your team and then return to data analysis)
  • ~1:30 pm - Data analysis continued
  • Before 3:15 pm - Prepare for report out at 3:30 pm - designate a "reporter" (or two) and plan a bit on what they will say for the group (images are fine but not required).
    • Quick overview of what you did
    • What went well?
    • What didn't go as smoothly as hoped?
    • What insights from today's experience will inform your teaching plans?
  • 3:30 pm - Break
  • 3:45 pm - Report-out on surveying experiences (ECB 250)
  • 4:30 pm - Initial planning for Day 3 teaching – including deciding teaching teams of ~3 people
  • 4:50 pm - Road check & (very short) Teaching Ideas survey
  • 5:00 pm - Adjourn
  • 5:10 pm - Shuttle departs for Hampton Inn
  • Dinner (on your own) - teams plan whether to meet for further planning before or after dinner
  • Teams plan for how they will teach their method to others on Day 3
    • Will be on Discovery Lab lawn
    • Teams of ~3 will teach to ~6 others at a time
    • Don't go overboard - you only have 1 hour of teaching time
    • Decide what is most important to do
    • Skip GPS
    • Plan for keeping people occupied and making sure that everyone gets some chance to interact with the instrument
    • Easel pad large stickies and markers will be available if you want to draw anything

Thursday July 9 - Teaching geophysics methods and implementation planning

  • Breakfast - Available from 6:00 am at Hampton Inn for people staying at the hotel
  • 7:30 am - Shuttle departs from Hampton Inn entrance for Mines campus
  • 8:00 am - Final prep for field teaching (team decides where to meet - breakout rooms or basement store rooms)
  • Teaching rotation schedule
    • 8:30 am – Rotation A - teams teach others
    • 9:30 am – Break (nip in for toilet break if needed and come right back)
    • 9:45 am – Rotation B - teams teach others
    • 10:45 am – Rotation C - teams teach others
  • 11:45 am - GROUP PHOTO
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch
  • 1:30 pm - Teaching with geophysics methods
    • Instructor stories from past participants
    • Geophysics career options - Andy Parsekian, Beth Pratt-Sitaula
    • Accessing instruments from EPIC
      • EarthScope Geophysics Field Education - instructions for requesting instruments
      • Workshop participants can have shipping fee waived for the first time they borrow an instrument -- GPS, GPR, seismic (low resources institutions can ask for shipping waivers in subsequent years too)
    • Teaching in the field - GETSI GNSS/GPS module field teaching tips - highly applicable for all methods
    • Safe field experiences for all - see links in Resources section below
  • 2:30 pm - Teaching implementation planning
  • 3:15 pm - Break
  • 3:30 pm - Implementation planning continued
    • "Birds of a Feather" discussion groups (~45 min)
  • ~4:15 pm
    • Whole group discussion (~30 min)
    • Individual time to refine plans (~15 min)
  • 5:00 pm - End of workshop survey
  • 5:30 pm - Adjourn
  • 5:40 pm - Shuttle departs for Hampton Inn
  • 7:00 pm - Dinner in Hampton Inn breakfast area

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