Glenn Richard

Mineral Physics Institute

SUNY at Stony Brook

Workshop Participant, Website Contributor

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Activities (6), Course (1), Teaching Method Module (1)

Activities (6)

Selecting Sites for Renewable Energy Projects part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth:Examples
Students use Google Earth to investigate appropriate locations for a variety of renewable energy projects in the United States. These include projects that use solar energy, bioenergy, hydroelectricity, tidal power, wind energy, wave energy, and geothermal energy.

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The Boxing Day Tsunami part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth:Examples
Undergraduate students map data from the National Geophysical Data Center and the United States Geological Survey on Google Earth and study visualizations in order to explore the causes and effects of the Tsunami ...

Northwest Passage part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth:Examples
An investigation of changes in polar regions using Google Earth.

Wave Interference part of Deep Earth:Activities
This activity engages students in the exploration of interference between sinusoidal wave forms. They use an interactive applet to manipulate the phase, wavelength, amplitude, and phase velocity of two waveforms ...

Bragg's Law part of Deep Earth:Activities
"ON A COLD WINTER DAY IN DECEMBER, 1955, Robert Wentorf Jr. walked down to the local food co-op in Niskayuna, New York, and bought a jar of his favorite crunchy peanut butter. This was no ordinary shopping ...

Environmental Reconnaissance of a Salt Marsh part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth:Examples
This is a field and computer laboratory exercise that introduces undergraduate students, advanced high school students, and members of the general public to using Google Earth, GPS, aerial imagery, and an online ...

Course (1)

Geoscience and Global Concerns part of Energy:Energy Courses
An exploration of how technologically-based problems facing the United States and the world relate to the Earth system, including the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. The set of issues include such ...

Teaching Method Module (1)

Teaching with Google Earth part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth
Created by Glenn A. Richard, Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University Updates by Diana Krupnick and Beth Pratt-Sitaula, UNAVCO A Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom What is Google ...

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Teach the Earth

Workshop Participant (7 workshops)

Climate and Energy Book Club Dec, 2010
December 2010 Teaching About Energy in Geoscience Courses: Current Research and Pedagogy
October 2010 Understanding the Deep Earth
February 2010

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