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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mapping Habitable Range Shifts of Salt Marsh Bird's Beak Due to Sea Level Rise (ArcGIS) part of Teaching Activities
Salt Marsh Bird's Beak is an endangered plant species that is endemic to the Upper Newport Bay of Newport Beach, California. Because this rare and important species occupies a narrow ecological niche, as sea ...

Applied GIS part of Courses
This is an introductory GIS course that consists almost entirely of in-class exercises using the ArcGIS software to solve various earth science problems. Students gain experience with finding, downloading and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lab 3: Changes to the Green River part of Teaching Activities
Students digitize the path of the Green River from historical imagery, and calculate sinuosity using a Python script. Students then display the changes on a map. Students are introduced to the concept of computer ...

Geological Mapping Field Trip and Ore Grade Calculation– Pituca Mine, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador part of Teaching Activities
Geological mapping involves the observation, recording, presentation and interpretation of field data, all fundamental skills required by practicing geologists. This geological mapping exercise enables ...

GIS in Geoscience Examples part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with GIS
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