steven skinner

Breaking Down Barriers with an Interactive, Accessible, Culturally Responsive Open Education Resource (OER) for Geology of California Courses part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday Poster Session
The adoption of OER has been shown to reduce student textbook costs. Yet most geoscience courses taught at California community colleges lack OER, creating unnecessary barriers for students. Geoscience educators ...

Steven Skinner: Using High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS/GNSS in Geophysics for Geologists at California State University-Sacramento part of High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS
My geophysics for geologists course is an elective for geology majors and provides a broad overview of global and applied geophysics. Currently the course consists of 75 minute lectures twice a week. Exercises were distributed throughout the semester and sometimes had to be split over multiple class periods or take place on a weekend 'field day'. One of learning objectives of this course is for the students to be able to design an appropriate geophysical survey with an understanding of how equipment and sampling distribution influence resolution. This year we added the GNSS exercises to the usual seismic and magnetic surveying. The students all enjoyed the GNSS exercises in part because it is an extension of something they carry around in their pockets every day.