Cretaceous Coastlines and Modern Voting Patterns
× Contributor: Branson Becker This module examines the relationship between modern voting patterns in the American south and the geologic history of North America. The curve of the democratic ...

Renewable Energy is Way too Expensive, Right?

Katharine Hayhoe
This video explores the myth that developing or emerging countries/cities (Africa, Mexico, Dubai, Peru) must be dependent on coal, oil or gas because of their poor economies and not on clean, ...

Confronting Racism and Colonialism in Geoscience Education through a Historical Lens: Integrating Critical Pedagogy in Earth Sciences Curricula
Using a college-level biogeography course as a case study, we draw from critical engaged pedagogy and antiracist scholarship to interrogate biases in the processes and forms of knowledge production, legitimization, and exclusion; the source of inequities in scholar representation and professional advancement in the discipline; and how societal benefits and harms of research practices are felt disproportionately by different groups and in different places (locally, regionally, globally).

Landscapes
× Contributor: Tamara Pico This set of GeoContext slides provides context to the history of research and teaching on geomorphology. Foundational ideas in geomorphology attributed to 19th century researchers ...

Tribal Climate Tool

University of California MERCED Climate Impacts Group
This tribal climate tool provides maps, graphs and reports that summarize projected changes in climate for specific tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin.

Colonialism and Racism in Early Oceanographic Expeditions
× Contributors: Rehemat Bhatia, Sarah Greene, Laura Haynes This set of GeoContext slides addresses how the founding of the field of oceanography was entwined with British colonialism. The slides cover the ...

Meteorites
× Contributor: Christine Yifeng Chen This set of GeoContext slides provides a cultural context to the historical discovery and research of meteorites. The slides focus on the overlooked history of the Cape ...

Volcanology
× Contributor: Ery C. Hughes This set of GeoContext slides addresses the colonialist motivations of European settlement of volcanic regions, and the effects of colonial power and indigenous knowledge on the ...

Isostasy
× Contributor: Harriet C.P. Lau This set of GeoContext slides addresses the colonialist and imperialist context that our understanding of concepts of isostasy have been studied in. The British survey of ...

Land Grab Universities
× Contributor: Harriet C.P. Lau This set of GeoContext slides give an overview of the history of a colonialist practice in founding higher education institutions in the United States. Based on the Land Grab ...