Tsunami Travel Time Approximation
Eric Grosfils, Pomona College
Eric Grosfils, Pomona College Summary Students are asked to calculate approximate tsunami travel times across the Pacific basin. The assignment builds off of a lab introducing students to Spatial Analyst, and ...

Build Your Own Earth
David Schultz, University of Manchester
Build Your Own Earth is a freely available web site to explore the factors that affect Earth's climate. Climate model simulations reveal the annual distributions of 50 different quantities. An accompanying ...

SSBW - Linux Tutorial 1: Basics
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use a virtual machine to interact with a Linux command line environment, 2) navigate directories and pathnames in Linux, 3) ...

SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 1: IRIS Earthquake Browser
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will use the IRIS Earthquake Browser to 1) explore global geographic earthquake patterns, particularly in relation to plate boundaries, ...

SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 2: GMAP, MDA, and MUSTANG Databrowser
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use the IRIS GMAP Station Browser to identify what seismic stations have data available based on a geographic region, a time ...

Mt. St. Helens Volcanic Ashfall Eruption
Eileen Herrstrom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This activity takes place outside of the classroom and requires ~1 hour to complete. Students recreate the map of the Mt. St. Helens ash plume of 1980 and use their maps to answer a series of questions about this ...

Watershed area and discharge relationships
Steven Petsch, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Students use USGS WaterData website to find data on area, average annual discharge and response to high-precip events in small watersheds in southern New England. Data for the class are compiled to generate graphs ...

Northwestern Indiana Landscape Unit
Moriah Weitman, University of Maine
In this lesson, students will investigate the question, what is the effect of climate on glacial landscape processes? Students will be guided through understanding how climate factors, such as temperature and ...

Basic Chemistry Review
Thomas Meixner, The University of Arizona
This assignment reviews basic of chemistry for students who should have had 2 introductory semesters of basic chemistry prior to enrolling in the Fundamental of Water Quality course for which the assignment is ...

SSBW - Jupyter Tutorial 5: Seismic Noise and Quieting During COVID19
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) download a Jupyter notebook from GitHub, 2) practice using basic Python syntax, 3) use the ObsPy library to retrieve a large amount ...