Topographic differencing: Earthquake along the Wasatch fault part of Teaching Activities
Chelsea Scott, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
After a big earthquake happens people ask, 'Where did the earthquake occur? How big was it? What type of fault was activated?' We designed an undergraduate laboratory exercise in which students learn how ...

Signal processing and earthquake triggering part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, Western Washington University
In this exercise, written for an undergraduate seismology class, students use MATLAB to analyze waveforms from the 2004 Sumatra M9.0 earthquake, as they were recorded on three seismic stations in Alaska. Two of ...

Major Storms and Community Resilience part of CLEAN Collection

Extreme Event Game part of CLEAN Collection

Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods part of CLEAN Collection

2018 Kīlauea Eruption Simulation: A Volcanic Crisis Role-Play Simulation and Training Activity part of Hawaiian Volcanoes
Andrew Greene, Hawaii Pacific University
This activity is an accurate role-play simulation of the historic 2018 Kīlauea eruption in Hawaiʻi. The goal of this engaging interactive simulation is for participants to experience a simulated volcanic crisis ...

Natural Hazards on the Island of Hawai‘i part of Hawaiian Volcanoes
Andrew Greene, Hawaii Pacific University; Michael Garcia, University of Hawaii at Hilo; Michael Poland
In this jigsaw activity, students discover four different aspects of natural hazards on the Island of Hawaii. The goal for students is to design a hazard zone map that combines these four topics and that could be ...

Life and Death of Hawaiian Volcanoes: A Jigsaw Activity on the Hawaiian Ridge part of Hawaiian Volcanoes
Andrew Greene, Hawaii Pacific University; Michael Garcia, University of Hawaii at Hilo
This activity immerses students in the discovery and appreciation of the Hawaiian hotspot, and the growth and evolution of Hawaiian volcanoes. This engaging, interactive group activity uses a beautiful 25 foot long ...

Research project to consider how projected climate change will impact a region of interest to the student part of Climate Change:Activities
Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University
Students consult the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chapters on climate projections and the primary scientific literature to write a research paper and present their results to the ...

Risky Business: Using Games to Understand Farmer Decision-making in Sri Lanka part of Teaching Activities
Thushara Gunda, Vanderbilt University
In coupled natural and human systems (such as farming), decision-making is rarely straightforward since it is influenced by myriad factors. This in-class role playing game allows students to step into the shoes of ...