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Mark Helper
Geosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
I am a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, at the University of Texas at Austin. Contacted me at helper@jsg.utexas.edu. For biographical information and a curriculum vita please visit [https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/researcher/mark_helper/].
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Activities (3)
Geologic Mapping of a Virtual Landscape II - Three River Hills part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This second virtual mapping exercise builds on the first (Geologic Mapping of a Virtual Landscape), but contains a more complicated geological puzzle to solve. This virtual landscape is also much larger, with a ...
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Geological Mapping of a Virtual Landscape part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This virtual mapping exercise is part video game, part map prediction and interpretation. You will navigate a virtual landscape to "collect" outcrops and their field notes, recording your observations on ...
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Spatial Analysis of Raster Data - An Antarctic Example part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Educational activity page detailing a GIS-based exercise using Antarctic raster datasets (elevation, ice thickness, bedrock topography) to teach spatial analysis techniques in ArcGIS, including projection customization, raster calculation, hillshading, and isostatic adjustment modeling, aimed at upper-division and graduate geoscience students.
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GIS and GPS Applications in Earth Sciences part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Courses
Theory and practice of geographic information system (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies and their applications to problems in earth sciences. Laboratories and field trips provide hands-on ...