Quantitative Activities for Earth Science Disciplines


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Unit 4: Groundwater, GPS, and Water Resources
Karen M. Kortz (Community College of Rhode Island) Jessica J. Smay (San Jose City College)
GPS data can measure ground elevation change in response to the changing amount of groundwater in valleys and snow cover in mountains. In this module, students will learn how to read GPS data to interpret how the ...

Quantitative Skills: Units and Unit Conversions, Problem Solving, Graphs, Probability and Statistics:Data Trends, Arithmetic/Computation, Spreadsheets
Software: Microsoft Excel
Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geography:Geospatial, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Groundwater , Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
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Sustainability Metrics
Natalie Hunt, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Sustainability is a complex term applied to many different contexts in a variety of ways. As a result, it can be challenging to determine how sustainable something really is. In this module, students will use an ...

Quantitative Skills: Probability and Statistics:Data Trends, Graphs
Subject: Geoscience: Environmental Science, Geoscience
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
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Water Quality Module
This module was initially developed by Castendyk, D. and Gibson, C. 30 June 2015. Project EDDIE: Water Quality. Project EDDIE Module 6, Version 1. cemast.illinoisstate.edu/data-for-students/modules/water-quality.shtml. Module development was supported by NSF DEB 1245707.
Water quality is a critical concept for undergraduate students studying Earth Sciences, Biology, and Environmental Sciences. Many of these students will be asked to assess the impacts of a proposed anthropogenic ...

Quantitative Skills: Graphs, Spreadsheets, Gathering Data, Probability and Statistics
Software: Microsoft Excel
Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Biogeosciences , Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Chemistry:Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
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Unit 2: Kilauea Hawai'i - Monday Morning Meeting at the USGS Hawai'i Volcano Observatory
Kaatje van der Hoeven Kraft, Whatcom Community College and Rachel Teasdale, California State University-Chico
How do volcanologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitor volcanoes? In a jigsaw format, students first work in teams to learn one of the four volcano monitoring data sets (GPS, Tilt, Seismic and InSAR) and ...

Quantitative Skills: Graphs
Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Seismology
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
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Unit 1: Monitoring Volcanic Activity at Mount St. Helens
Rachel Teasdale (California State University-Chico) and Kaatje van der Hoeven Kraft (Whatcom Community College)
How can data from an impending volcanic dome-building event be used to forecast the hazard to a surrounding community? In this activity, students will examine geodetic data (GPS and lidar) and seismic data in a ...

Quantitative Skills: Graphs
Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
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Lake Mixing Module
This module was initially developed by Carey, C.C., J.L. Klug, and R.L. Fuller. 1 August 2015. Project EDDIE: Dynamics of Lake Mixing. Project EDDIE Module 3, Version 1. cemast.illinoisstate.edu/data-for-students/modules/lake-mixing.shtml. Module development was supported by NSF DEB 1245707.
Stratified lakes exhibit vertical gradients in organisms, nutrients, and oxygen, which have important implications for ecosystem structure and functioning. Mixing disrupts these gradients by redistributing these ...

Quantitative Skills: Graphs, Spreadsheets, Models and Modeling
Software: Microsoft Excel
Subject: Geoscience: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Water Column, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Biology:Biogeochemistry, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory, High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16)
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Detecting Cascadia's changing shape with GPS | Lessons on Plate Tectonics
Shelley E Olds, EarthScope Consortium
Research-grade Global Positioning Systems (GPS) allow students to deduce that Earth's crust is changing shape in measurable ways. From data gathered by EarthScope's Plate Boundary Observatory, students discover that the Pacific Northwest of the United States and coastal British Columbia — the Cascadia region - are geologically active: tectonic plates move and collide; they shift and buckle; continental crust deforms; regions warp; rocks crumple, bend, and will break.

Quantitative Skills: Arithmetic/Computation, Graphs, Models and Modeling, Vectors and Matrices
Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience, Geology:Tectonics, Geophysics:Geodesy, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
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Unit 2: Monitoring surface and groundwater supply in central and western US
Jonathan Harvey (Fort Lewis College) and Becca Walker (Mt San Antonio College)
In Unit 2, students learn how the techniques for water budgeting (covered in Unit 1) can be used to monitor both groundwater (High Plains Aquifer) and surface water (western mountain watershed) systems. Students ...

Quantitative Skills: Graphs, Geometry and Trigonometry:Cubes and Rectangular Solids, Algebra, Spreadsheets, Units and Unit Conversions, Problem Solving:Equations
Software: Microsoft Excel
Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Hydrology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geophysics:Geodesy, Gravity, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Groundwater , Water Conservation, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Drought, Environmental Science, Sustainability, Land Use and Planning, Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
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Unit 1: Introduction to Flooding
Venkatesh Merwade, Purdue University (vmerwade@purdue.edu) James McNamara, Boise State University (jmcnamar@boisestate.edu)
Do geoscientists understand the meaning of floods and their role within the broader context of ecological and societal impacts? In this unit, students are introduced to the concept of flooding and the mechanisms ...

Quantitative Skills: Graphs, Spreadsheets, Algebra, Problem Solving:Equations, Probability and Statistics:Probability
Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
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Plate Tectonics: GPS Data, Boundary Zones, and Earthquake Hazards
Christopher Berg, Orange Coast College; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope Consortium; Julie Elliott, Michigan State University
Students work with high precision GPS data to explore how motion near a plate boundary is distributed over a larger region than the boundary line on the map. This allows them to investigate how earthquake hazard ...

Quantitative Skills: Spreadsheets, Graphs
Software: Microsoft Excel
Subject: Geoscience: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
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