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Unit 3: Static GPS/GNSS Methods part of High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS
Ben Crosby, Idaho State University
The application of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in the earth sciences has become commonplace. GNSS data can produce high-accuracy, high-resolution measurements in common reference frames. Static GNSS ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes
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Unit 2: Reading the landscape part of Surface Process Hazards
Sarah Hall, College of the Atlantic; Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
How do geologic, hydrologic, biologic, and built-landscape features manifest themselves on maps? In this unit, students will use topographic maps, hillshade maps, and aerial imagery to learn to recognize a variety ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geography, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology
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Unit 3: Understanding landslide factors part of Surface Process Hazards
Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
How do slope characteristics and magnitude of forces dictate whether or not a slope will fail? Can environmental and built characteristics change the magnitude of these forces? In this unit, students qualitatively ...
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement
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Unit 3: Monitoring groundwater storage with GPS vertical position part of Measuring Water Resources
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Eric Small, University of Colorado at Boulder
This unit shows how GPS records of surface elevation can be used to monitor groundwater changes. Students calculate secular trends in the GPS time series and then use the original and detrended records to identify ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Geology of groundwater occurrence, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Geomorphology as applied to other disciplines, Landforms/Processes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water cycle/groundwater-surface water interface, Groundwater flow, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Subsidence, Extreme Weather:Drought, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Groundwater , Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Water supply/water resource evaluation, Well hydraulics, Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water: Unsaturated zone/recharge
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Unit 5: Summative assessment project part of Analyzing High Resolution Topography with TLS and SfM
Bruce Douglas (Indiana University)
Chris Crosby (EarthScope Consortium)
Kate Shervais (UNAVCO)
Unit 5 is the summative assessment for the module. This final exercise takes eight to ten hours. The exercise evaluates students' developed skills in survey design, execution of a geodetic survey, and simple ...
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Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Depositional environments:Continental, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Facies and Facies Models, Sedimentary Structures, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geophysics in other disciplines, Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques, Landforms/Processes, Geoscience:Paleontology:Preservation and Taphonomy, Field Techniques , Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Tectonics, Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution, Tectonic Geomorphology, Geomorphology as applied to other disciplines, Geography:Physical, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones
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Unit 4: The phenomenology of earthquakes from InSAR data part of Imaging Active Tectonics
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Gareth Funning, University of California-Riverside
How are different types of earthquakes represented in InSAR data? How can we obtain detailed information on the earthquake source from InSAR data? How well can we resolve those details? In this unit, students ...
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution, Modeling/Physical Experiments, Geomorphology as applied to other disciplines, Tectonic Geomorphology, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Modeling Structural Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Computer Modeling, Geodynamics, Seismology, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Stress/Strain/Strain Analysis, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geography:Physical
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Unit 3: How to see an earthquake from space (InSAR) part of Imaging Active Tectonics
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Gareth Funning, University of California-Riverside
How can we tell what style of faulting was responsible for a particular earthquake? Especially in cases where there is limited instrumentation in a region, or where geologists have difficulty accessing the affected ...
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Stress/Strain/Strain Analysis, Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology, Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodynamics, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Physics:Oscillations & Waves:Instruments, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geomorphology:Geomorphology as applied to other disciplines, Landscape Evolution, Tectonic Geomorphology, Geography:Physical, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
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