GIS Analysis of Shoreline Change Using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) part of Teaching Activities
The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) is a software extension for ArcGIS that allows for automated shoreline change calculations along the coast. The user must supply the shoreline data and the software ...

Cyclone Science: A GIS-based Curriculum on Tropical Cyclones part of Teaching Activities
Cyclone Science is a four-unit GIS-based curriculum, with exercises using the easy-to-use, open source QGIS software. Detailed instructions guide students through the exercises. The curricular units contain ...

Modeling Rare Plant Distributions Using ArcGIS part of Teaching Activities
In this activity, students work with rare plant occurrence data from the Nature Reserve of Orange County, California to create species distribution maps in ArcGIS. Students are given shapefiles of species ...

Lab 8: LiDAR part of Teaching Activities
In this lab students use LiDAR and GPS data to investigate the the amount of woody debris available for habitat in a local river. Students collect GPS data, explorer local LiDAR data and write a Python script to ...

Lab 5: Sea Level Rise part of Teaching Activities
In this lab, modified from Barbara and David Tewksbury's sea level rise lab, students use bathy/topo DEMs from NOAA to predict the location of shorelines after certain amounts of sea level rise and tsunami ...

Mapping Ice Melt Extent in Greenland between 1979-2007 Using ArcGIS part of Teaching Activities
This activity introduces students to Greenland ice-melt data derived from passive microwave remote sensing between the years 1979 and 2007. Students make a quantitative comparison between the two years using the ...

Lab 7: Hawai'i part of Teaching Activities
Students extract streams and watersheds from a DEM for the island of Hawai'i. They then look to seeif there is a correlation between precipitation and the way a stream network develops on a mountain. Students ...

Mapping Plate Tectonic Boundaries part of Teaching Activities
In this classroom activity, students will work in groups to observe how patterns of topography, bathymetry, earthquake locations and depths, and the location of volcanoes vary across regions of the Earth. They will ...

Differences and Similarities Between Mean Local Relief and Slope part of Teaching Activities
In this lab students investigate the effect of raster scale on calculations of mean local relief and slope. Students learn about the differences and similarities between mean local relief and slope, and how to ...

Surficial Geologic Mapping and Interpretation from Aerial Photography and Stratigraphic Unit Descriptions part of Teaching Activities
Laboratory exercise/project that uses stratigraphic data (formation and member descriptions), aerial photography, and structural data to remotely identify and locate the contacts of bedrock and Quaternary geologic ...