Agenda & Course Materials

Short Course: Using Geophysics Data to Teach About Flooding, Landslides, and Climate Change in Undergraduate Courses

Date: Sunday December 8, 2019 (day before AGU starts)
Time: 8 am - 5 pm
Location: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

The teaching resources featured in this short course are all available on the GETSI website. Links to the individual modules are below.

• 7:00 am Light continental breakfast and coffee/tea service
• 8:00 am Welcome & Introductions (Beth Pratt-Sitaula, UNAVCO)
  Overview and Logistics presentation (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 27.1MB Dec9 19)
• 8:30 am Presentation & resources exploration time (Bobby Karimi, Wilkes University)
  Planning for Failure: Landslide Analysis for a Safer Society module
• 10:00 am Break
• 10:15 am Presentation & resources exploration time (Venkatesh Merwade, Purdue University)
  Modeling Flood Hazards module
  • HEC-RAS software download (Hydrologic Engineering Center's River Analysis System) - for generating flood hazard maps
• 12:00 pm Lunch
• 1:00 pm Presentation & resources exploration time (Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University)
  Understanding Our Changing Climate: Data Behind Melting Ice and Changing Sea Level module
• 3:00 pm Break
• 3:15 pm Additional resource exploration time in smaller groups
• 3:45 pm Implementation planning
• 4:15 pm Groups discussion of challenges, solutions, and implementation ideas
• 4:45 pm Feedback Survey
• 5:00 pm Adjourn