Mineral Structural Formulae & Stochiometry part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2018:Program:Share-a-Thon:Share-a-Thon Presentations
This is an Excel-based activity used in mineralogy and petrology courses to introduce the concept to determining the mineral structure formulae (or cations per atomic functional unit) from given mineral oxide data, ...

Mined-Over Matter: Remembering Copper Mining at Keweenaw National Historic Park, Upper Peninsula Michigan part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Geology of National Parks:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students calculate the amount of rock removed and the value of copper produced at the great Keweenaw District up to 1925.

Geology for Engineers part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Courses
This is a lecture-based course designed to provide an broad introduction to geologic concepts and processes for engineers with no previous exposure to geology. Students complete a series of analytic assignments related to the topics covered in lecture and research a California geologic hazard topic to present to the rest of the class.

Engineering Geology part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Courses
This is a geology course that focuses on the core activities of engineering geologists – site characterization and geologic hazard identification and mitigation.

Groundwater Engineering part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Courses
Groundwater Engineering is a lecture-based course designed to provide graduate students with both the background information and quantitative tools they will need to work in the water management and environmental consulting fields or to conduct related research.

Geology for Engineers/Engineering Geology part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Courses
This course emphasizes how geology is used by engineers so that they can coverse with geoscientists, read pertinent geoscience literature and identify geological problems in the field.

Introduction to the methods of geoscience part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activities
In this activity, students are introduced to the methods of inquiry in the Earth sciences and how they differ from what is classically taught in school science.

From zero to Matlab in six weeks - with Freshmen part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Course Descriptions
How to bring Freshmen up to speed in Matlab programming. A series of targeted demonstrations and exercises accompanying a first one-semester course (a "Freshman Seminar") in the Geosciences as taught at ...

Using MATLAB to improve student understanding of vector calculus part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Essays
Anantha Aiyyer, Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University I work in the field of atmospheric sciences. My research involves analysis of data from observations and running numerical ...

Data Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Course Descriptions
The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to statistical and numerical techniques that are useful in the analysis and characterization of geological data. A focus is placed on conceptual understanding of ...