Economics: Sea level rise
Lea Fortmann, University of Puget Sound
This module is framed from the perspective of a city planner trying to determine how much to spend on a local seawall given different scenarios of sea level rise and the associated storm surge and higher flood ...

Unit 4: The Magic of Geophysical Inversion
Lee Slater, Rutgers University-Newark
This unit introduces the student to the concept of geophysical inversion, which is the process of estimating the geophysical properties of the subsurface from the geophysical observations. The basic mechanics of ...

Unit 1: Exploring Harrier Meadow, an Urban Wetland System
Lee Slater, Rutgers University-Newark
Students will conduct a virtual exploration of Harrier Meadow, a salt marsh in the New Jersey Meadowlands. They will identify its vulnerability to pollution, its tidal connection to the Hackensack Estuary and the ...

Unit 4: Measuring Ice Mass Changes: Vertical Bedrock GPS
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University
This unit shows how GPS records of bedrock surface elevation may be used to monitor snow and ice loading/unloading on decadal and annual time scales. Students calculate secular trends in the GPS time series and ...

High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS
High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS/GNSS Benjamin Crosby (Idaho State University) Ian Lauer (Idaho State University) Editor: Beth Pratt-Sitaula (EarthScope Consortium) Initial Publication Date: April 24, 2018 DOIThis page currently has no DOI, but you may request a DOI be assigned. | Cite thisGETSI. (2018, April 24). High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS. https://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/teaching_materials/high-precision/index.html
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
Future of Food Gigi Richard (Colorado Mesa University) Heather Karsten (Pennsylvania State University) Steve Vanek (Pennsylvania State University) Karl Zimmerer (Pennsylvania State University') Editor: Timothy Bralower (Pennsylvania State University) Initial Publication Date: January 11, 2018 Cite thisInTeGrate. (2018, January 11). Future of Food. https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/food_supply/index.html
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 ...

Biomass conversion into highly useful chemicals
SAPNA JAIN, Alabama State University
This is CURE based course that aims at bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge in chemistry and its practical applications at solving real-world problems. It gives students an opportunity to construct and synthesize their knowledge and skills by learning to apply theoretical knowledge to practice by the laboratory research. The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the fundamental concepts of chemistry, synthetic methods and techniques. The emphasis will be on novel catalysts synthesis and evaluating their activity towards biomass conversion to liquid fuel and useful chemicals. Students will design synthesize, deduce identities of the biomass conversion products from chemical and spectral clues, and predict reaction products.

Unit 2: Geophysical Properties of the Subsurface
Lee Slater, Rutgers University-Newark
Archie (1950) defined the term petrophysics to describe the study of the physics of rocks, particularly with respect to the fluids they contain. Although originally focused on geophysical exploration, petrophysics ...

Evaluating the Health of an Urban Wetland Using Electrical Resistivity
Evaluating the Health of an Urban Wetland Using Electrical Resistivity Lee Slater (Rutgers University - Newark) Initial Publication Date: April 16, 2021 | Reviewed: August 4, 2022 (see revision history: 2 events) Show LessFirst Publication: April 16, 2021 Reviewed: August 4, 2022 -- Reviewed by the On the Cutting Edge Activity Review Process DOIThis page currently has no DOI, but you may request a DOI be assigned. | Cite thisGETSI. (2021, April 16). Evaluating the Health of an Urban Wetland Using Electrical Resistivity. https://serc.carleton.edu/iguana/teaching_materials/resistivity/index.html
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 ...

Capstone Project
This educational resource page presents a capstone project for an undergraduate course on renewable energy and environmental sustainability, featuring a systems-thinking assignment where students design a sustainable community using technologies from prior modules, supported by a detailed assessment rubric and peer-reviewed instructional content from the InTeGrate and On the Cutting Edge programs. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.