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Landslide Mapping and Analysis part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Alison Duvall, University of Washington-Seattle Campus
The purpose of this module is to familiarize students to empirical methods of mass movement hazard analysis, to provide them training in mapping and analyzing inventories of landslides from lidar datasets, and to ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Case Study: Zhouqu, China Landslide part of Environmental Geology:Activities
Robin Humphreys, College of Charleston
This is a 'citizen science' research project where students to apply their knowledge of landslide processes in an investigation of the natural and anthropogenic causes of a real-world landslide ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Project:Investigative Case Studies
Subject: Geography, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement, Environmental Science, Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Paper: "Limitations and Hazards to Home Construction" part of Geomorphology:Activities
Rich Whittecar, Old Dominion University
This is a semester-long writing project that incorporates exercises completed during first two thirds of the term. Students evaluate geomorphic conditions and potential hazards on one of four properties in western ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Writing Assignment, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Weathering/Soils, Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes, Fluvial
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Geomorphology Field Research Project part of Geomorphology:Activities
Jeff Marshall, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
This research project allows students to integrate and apply their geomorphic knowledge in a comprehensive study of a local landscape. Working in teams, they investigate uplifted alluvial deposits along the ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Writing Assignment, Activities, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils, Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geomorphology:Climate/Paleoclimate, GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques, Dating and Rates, Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution, Landforms/Processes:Fluvial, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Tectonic Geomorphology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Geomorphic Landscape Analysis Project part of Geomorphology:Activities
Cathy Baker, Arkansas Tech University
Geomorphic Landscape analysis Project is a field-based capstone project in Geol 3044: Geomorphology at Arkansas Tech University and incorporates all aspects of topics covered during the course.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils, Landforms/Processes:Fluvial, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Tectonic Geomorphology, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review