Peter Copeland

Earth and Atmospheric Science

University of Houston-University Park

Workshop Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Activity (1)

Measuring the Earth part of Introductory Courses:Activities
With a colleague at the University of Kansas, we measure the size of the Earth using the method of Eratosthenese. This is handy because the UH and KU campuses are almost directly on a N-S line.

Course (1)

Physical Geology part of Introductory Courses:Courses
This is a survey of a broad spectrum of geology. We have majors in the class so there are certain things I think we need to cover but mostly I like to give a flavor of the big topics in geology and how a scientist ...