The Usefulness of Tidal Charts
Elizabeth Nagy, Pasadena City College
This 8-page assignment on the topic of ocean tides is intended to be completed by students alone or in small groups during class (with the possible exception of the last page which requires access to the internet) ...

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 ...

Ocean Carbon Storage and Acidification
Allison Jacobel, Middlebury College
This module guides students through an examination of how Earth scientists use marine sediments to reconstruct changes in Earth's climate and the carbon cycle. In Part A, students learn about ocean ...

SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 6: Fetch Scripts for Web Service Requests
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) generate and interpret IRIS web service requests for metadata, earthquake information, and seismogram data using Fetch scripts from ...

SSBW - Jupyter Tutorial 1: Interacting with an Online Jupyter Notebook
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using basic Python syntax, 2) use a Jupyter notebook interface to interact with code created by someone else, 3) edit code ...

SSBW - Network Tutorial 1: Local Seismogram Viewer and the Moho
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use the IRIS Local Seismogram Viewer to view a record section of local recordings from the 2011 M5 earthquake in Oklahoma, 2) ...

Earth's Magnetic Field CogSketch geoscience worksheet
Bridget Garnier, Blue Valley School
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. To draw attention to the changes in magnetic inclination with latitude on Earth, students move, rotate, and match packages of "rock" ...

Earth's Interior CogSketch geoscience worksheet
Bridget Garnier, Blue Valley School
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. Students sketch the layers of the Earth in a progressive fashion, starting with the somewhat familiar top 40km of the crust and working ...

Sound and light in the ocean
Lauren Sahl, Maine Maritime Academy
Light is our usual method for observing on land, but water quickly absorbs light making it less useful in the ocean. On the other hand, sound in water can travel long distances before it is absorbed to the point ...

SSBW - Network Tutorial 2: Global Seismogram Viewer and Forward Modeling
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use the IRIS Global Seismogram Viewer to view a record section of global recordings from the 2010 M7 earthquake in Haiti, 2) ...