Vince Cronin

Geology

Baylor University

I am a geoscience researcher and educator who currently works at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, as a tenured full professor. My experiences and interests are broad, but current responsibilities generally include tectonics (particularly plate kinematics), neotectonics (particularly the search for seismogenic faults, structural geomorphology, and paleoseismology), structural geology (including its application to petroleum exploration and production), geodesy (particularly using GPS to measure crustal strain), geoethics and geoscience education. I am also very interested in the use of physical models in geoscience teaching and research. I work mostly with undergraduates and MS students.

More information about my history, credentials and publications is available via my website at CroninProjects.org http:CroninProjects.org/Vince/Credentials.html.

Webinar Leader, Workshop Leader, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Activities (7), Course (1), Essay (1), Conference Presentations (2), Other Contributions (3)

Activities (7)

Finding the Moho under Milwaukee part of Deep Earth:Activities
A seismogram was recorded at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee by Keith Sverdrup during the explosive demolition of a section of the nearby Hoan Bridge on December 28, 2000. The explosive demolition and ...

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Where is that chunk of crust going? part of Introductory Courses:Activities
I introduce students to GPS, frames of reference, and the permanent GPS stations in the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) in class, and obtain near-real-time data for two stations from UNAVCO. We use ...

Ten Brief Cases With Ethical Issues part of GeoEthics:Activities
Teaching activity presenting ten brief, anonymized case studies involving ethical issues in geology—primarily from engineering geology—for use in classroom discussion, debate, or writing assignments to develop students' ethical reasoning skills in professional practice.

Setting the Context, Goals, Obligations and Commitments for a Course part of GeoEthics:Activities
A teaching activity page from the On the Cutting Edge collection guides instructors in using reflective homework assignments to help students establish personal obligations, goals, and commitments at the start of a geoscience course, promoting integrity, stewardship, and ethical engagement in higher education.

Assessing the error of linear and planar field data using Fisher statistics part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Instruction on use of Fisher statistics to determine the mean and 95% confidence interval of geological vectors, lines or planes, with examples, problems and an Excel spreadsheet for computation.

Incomprehensibly Small and Incomprehensibly Large part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Students are asked to consider the length scales of the universe, from smallest to largest. Using a logarithmic scale in cm units, various distances are resolved ranging from the smallest meaningful length in ...

Physical model of the failure of an unreinforced structure during an earthquake part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Activities
This activity allows students to explore one of the principal reasons why so many people are injured or killed during an earthquake. Through the failure of a small model building on a simple shake table and comparison with photographs of actual buildings destroyed in earthquakes, students pursue an understanding of how to prevent these disasters through better building practices.

Course (1)

Physical Geology part of Introductory Courses:Courses
This is a rather standard course in physical geology, except that some common topics are omitted (deserts, coastlines, marine geology), shortened (glaciers), or included/expanded (geologic time, the history of life ...

Essay (1)

A few thoughts on the integration of engineering and geoscience part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Essays
This webpage is an academic essay discussing the integration of engineering and geoscience in undergraduate education, emphasizing the need for collaborative training, hands-on modeling of geological hazards, and institutional support for applied geoscience to improve engineering design and risk mitigation.

Conference Presentations (2)

What should we teach undergraduates about plate kinematics now, a half century after the revolution? part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2018:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday
Much of what is presented in undergraduate textbooks about plate kinematics represents a first-generation model from the early-1970s. In some cases, obsolete ideas (expanding/contracting Earth, geosynclines, ...

Current and Future Evolution of the AGI/NAGT Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Poster Sessions:Wednesday
The 11th edition of the AGI/NAGT Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology (LMPG) is now in print. Sales of the LMPG help support the work of NAGT and AGI. Superior graphics have always been a hallmark of the LMPG ...

Other Contributions (3)

Continuing the positive evolution of the AGI/NAGT Lab Manual in Physical Geology part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Round Table Discussions
We want to open lines of communication between current, past, and prospective users of the AGI/NAGT Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology and its content editor (Vince Cronin). We hope to create a persistent ...

GETSI (GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues): Teaching with the GETSI module "GPS, Strain, and Earthquakes" part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2018:Program:Afternoon Workshops
The module GPS, Strain and Earthquakes by the GETSI project (GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues) facilitates learning about high precision GPS data through the lens of earthquake hazards, risk, and preparedness. The ...

Finding Active Faults Using Earthquake Focal Mechanisms, Geomorphic Analysis and Field Work (SLAM) part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:2014 Structure and Tectonics Forum Abstracts
This educational webpage presents the Seismo-Lineament Analysis Method (SLAM), a geoscientific technique integrating earthquake focal mechanisms, DEM-based geomorphic analysis, and field validation to identify active faults, emphasizing its application in structural geology education and research.

Communities

Earth Educators Rendezvous 2022
July 2022 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2018
July 2018 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2017
July 2017 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2015
July 2015 GETSI Community
Teach the Earth
GETSI Interest Group
NAGT Webinar Series Interest
Earth Educators' Rendezvous Interest Group
Teaching Geoscience Online

Workshop Leader

GETSI AGU 2017 Short Course
December 2017 Geophysics Workshop 2007
August 2007

Workshop Participant (15 workshops)

Teaching Online Introductory Geoscience Labs
July 2020 Google Earth for Onsite and Distance Education (GEODE)
July 2018 Teaching for Quantitative Literacy in Geoscience Courses
July 2018

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2017 AGU Heads and Chairs Workshop
December 2017 Designing your Course to Maximize Student Learning
July 2017 Ed Research Methods Workshop
July 2015 Geo Ed Research -Rendezvous15
July 2015 GeoEthics 2014
June 2014 March 6-8 2013 InTeGrate Engineering Workshop
March 2013 Understanding the Deep Earth
February 2010 PresenterIntroductory Courses 2008
July 2008 PresenterQuantitative Skills 2004
July 2004 Teaching Structural Geology
June 2004 PresenterEarth Educators Rendezvous 2018 mini-workshop: GETSI (GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues): Teaching with the GETSI module "GPS, Strain, and Earthquakes"
EER 2022 Friday

Webinar Leader

Sneak Peek at the New Edition of the AGI/NAGT Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology with the Author-Editor
April 2020

Webinar Participant

Science Communication for Social Justice
August 2020 DBER Webinar
July 2015