Measuring the Earth with GPS: Plate Motion and Changing Ice-Water
Karen M. Kortz, Community College of Rhode Island; Jessica J. Smay, San Jose City College; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
Although GPS's first widespread use by geoscientists was to track plate motions, geoscientists have found that GPS can also be used to measure local movement due to changes in the amount of water, snow, and ...

High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS
Benjamin Crosby, Idaho State University; Ian Lauer, Idaho State University; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
Part of GETSI Field Collection: In this module, students will learn the fundamentals of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS, a more universal term than GPS) and how to apply these techniques beyond answering, ...

Future of Food
Gigi Richard, Fort Lewis College
The Future of Food is an introductory-level science course that emphasizes the challenges facing food systems in the 21st century, including issues of sustainability, resilience, and adaptive capacity, and the ...

Evaluating the Health of an Urban Wetland Using Electrical Resistivity
Lee Slater, Rutgers University - Newark
This module introduces students to the fundamental principles and uses of electrical resistivity, with a focus on an environmental application. Students explore the characteristics and environmental setting of ...

Food as the Foundation for Healthy Communities
Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg III, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; John Warford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Cynthia Hewitt, Morehouse College; Akin Akinyemi, Florida State University; Cheryl Young, Heritage University; Bakari McClendon, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Dave Gosselin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The movement toward sustainable communities has brought into focus the centrality of food in our everyday lives and its myriad social, economic, and environmental connections. The purpose of this module, Food as ...

Surface Process Hazards
Sarah Hall, College of the Atlantic; Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
Worldwide mass wasting causes hundreds if not thousands of deaths per year and billions of dollars in damages. Many of these losses would be preventable if societies prioritized landslide mitigation. In this 2-3 ...

Modeling Earth Systems
Kirsten Menking (Vassar College), Vassar College; Louisa Bradtmiller (Macalester College), Macalester College; David Bice (Penn State University), Penn State University; Timothy Bralower (Penn State University), Penn State University; David Bice, Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College; Louisa Bradtmiller, Macalester College; Kirsten Menking, Vassar College; Timothy Bralower, Penn State University
In this course, we develop the qualitative and quantitative tools for constructing, experimenting with, and interpreting dynamic models of different components of the Earth system. The integrated set of ten modules ...

Lead in the Environment
Caryl E. Waggett, Allegheny College; Richard David Gragg III, Florida A&M University; Katrina Smith Korfmacher, University of Rochester; Martha Richmond, Suffolk University; David Gosselin, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
The Lead in the Environment module is designed to integrate multiple disciplines to inform solutions to the ongoing burden of childhood lead poisoning. This module addresses the systems dynamics of lead within the ...

Major Storms and Community Resilience
Lisa Doner, Plymouth State University; Lorraine Motola, Metropolitan College of New York; Patricia Stapleton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Taber, EarthScope Consortium
Extreme storms have major impacts on the communities that lie in their path. Many climate models predict increased frequency of heavy rains and icing events, freak storms, and severe weather within the continental ...

Measuring Water Resources
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Eric Small, University of Colorado Boulder; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
Measuring water resources such as groundwater and snowpack is challenging, but the advent of satellite gravity measurements and hydrologic GPS applications can augment traditional methods. This module gives ...