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SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 3: Web Services
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students generate and interpret IRIS web service requests for 1) station metadata and availability, 2) information about the 2002 Magnitude 7.9 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes

Mapping Hurricanes - Working with Digital Vector and Raster Data Sets
Scott White, Fort Lewis College
Scott White, Fort Lewis College Summary This lab exercise shows students how to create a map of the track and winds of a hurricane. Hurricane Jimena from 2009 is examined using both vector and raster data. Context ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Hurricanes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather

Land Use Change in MidCoast Maine
Eileen Johnson, Bowdoin College
Eileen Johnson, Bowdoin College Summary This lab exercise is intended to introduce students to the fundamentals of GIS as part of two - three hour lab periods. The exercise provides experience with GIS software as ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water quality/chemistry , Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning

Coastal Flooding Assessment
Eric Grosfils, Pomona College
Eric B. Grosfils, Pomona College Summary Students are introduced to Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst, and use these tools to perform a flooding analysis for the Long Beach area of California. Context Type and level ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Activities, Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Coastal-zone

Abrupt climate change, greenhouse gases, and the bipolar see-saw
Kathleen Johnson, University of California-Irvine
In this activity, students work with paleoclimate proxy data (d18O, CH4, CO2)from the Byrd and GISP2 ice cores. Students prepare a graph of paleoclimate data and use the graph to answer several questions about the ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change

Introduction to Groundwater Assignment
Sara Rathburn, Colorado State University
In this lab, students investigate groundwater flow and water quality within a groundwater well field on the CSU campus. The well field is part of the GroundWater Education and Teaching (GetWET) Observatory.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Groundwater , Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water

Flood Frequency Analysis
Sheila Roberts, Bowling Green State University-Main Campus
This assignment asks students to do a flood frequency analysis to determine the size and stage of various floods and determine if the town of Crawford, OH is likely to be flooded or not. Outcomes: learn to work ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set
Subject: Environmental Science, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes

Exercise on Atmospheric Structure, Stratospheric Ozone, and Acid Rain
Carolyn Dowling, Arkansas State University-Main Campus
This activity helps students to understand the basic ozone structure as well as ozone and acid rain problems.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science:Air Quality:Acid Rain, Environmental Science:Air Quality, Global Change and Climate:Ozone depletion, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality:Acid Rain, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition

Flood Recurrence CogSketch geoscience worksheet
Bridget Garnier
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. This worksheet has students determine and plot the extent of a 100-year flood onto a map and determine which houses could be affected.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes

Volcanic Histories
Robert Filson, Green River Community College
Students collaborate on the history and hazards of two volcanoes based on deposits from the two mountains. Appropriate for introductory students.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism