Susan Gill

Education

Stroud Water Research Center

Susan Gill is the Director of Education at the Stroud Water Research Center http://www.stroudcenter.org/. As Ph.D. geoscientist, she translates research findings and communicates them to learners from K-12 to public audiences. In addition to contributing broader impacts to research proposals, she also integrates water-related research results into education projects http://wikiwatershed.org/.

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Course Modules (6)

Module 7: Humans in the Critical Zone part of Critical Zone Science
Educational module page covering human impacts on the Critical Zone through land-use change, agriculture, and water resources, featuring interdisciplinary teaching units, assessment strategies, and applications of geospatial modeling like Model My Watershed within undergraduate Earth science education.

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Unit 7.1 - Model My Watershed part of Critical Zone Science
Humans are agents of change in the Critical Zone. This unit focuses on the land/water connection and on how human-induced land use change affects local hydrology. Students will apply what they learned in the ...

Unit 2.1 - Basic Tools & Analysis part of Critical Zone Science
This unit will introduce methods and data from Critical Zone observatories as well as methods that scientists use in their research. These activities will provide an introduction to methods used in later units and ...

Unit 7.2 - Agricultural Impacts part of Critical Zone Science
Humans not only reside in the Critical Zone, they depend upon the land and water to provide sustenance. This unit will examine how humans affect soil resources and ecosystem services in the Critical Zone through ...

Unit 2.2 - Basic Critical Zone Concepts part of Critical Zone Science
Students will learn about geoscience-specific methods used to analyze data in the Critical Zone from data-driven activities and short presentations by their peers. The topics include the use of carbon isotopes, ...

Module 2: Methods in CZ Science part of Critical Zone Science
A web-based educational module page introducing scientific methods in Critical Zone (CZ) science, covering literature review, data visualization, biogeochemistry, isotope geochemistry, geospatial analysis, and systems modeling for undergraduate geoscience education.

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