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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 their primary focus method and for GPS/GNSS. People are welcome to attend all the sessions to learn more. Exact times will be scheduled shortly.

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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