Meteorites part of GeoContext:GeoContext Collection
× 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 ...

Colonialism and Racism in Early Oceanographic Expeditions part of GeoContext:GeoContext Collection
× 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 ...

Volcanology part of GeoContext:GeoContext Collection
× 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 ...

GeoContext Collection part of GeoContext
Browse the collection of GeoContext resources on a variety of topics. Preview slides and download Powerpoint files and companion guide documents. Cretaceous Coastlines and Modern Voting PatternsGlaciology, Race, ...

Isostasy and crustal thickness part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Students will write a matlab code to calculate crustal thickness of 5 locations. Calculations will use topography (determined by running a matlab script that creates a clickable map) and nominal density values, and ...

Introduction to MATLAB for Geomorphology part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
This is a lab for a Geomorphology course intended to introduce students to modeling landform evolution by means of applying a common sediment transport law to the erosion of a hillslope over time. MATLAB is used to ...

Working with Scientific Data Sets in Matlab: Intra-annual variability of Sea Surface Temperature and Data Interpolation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Sea surface temperature is a critical variable that determines biogeographic and distribution patterns of marine organisms. Changes in temperature influence species reproduction and survival and can affect the ...

Power of the Story: Interpreting oral histories part of Teaching Activities
This activity asks students to find a narrative that depicts a geologic event (preferably from non-dominant cultural oral histories) and interpret it applying the knowledge they have gained in class. This writing ...

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 ...

Antarctic Rock Boxes part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center offers no-cost Rock Boxes for use by educators in both schools and informal learning environments. Each box may be borrowed for one month and contains more than 30 ...