Modeling Mono Lake's Water Balance part of Teaching Activities
In this activity students build a hydrologic model of Mono Lake in MATLAB and then use the model to evaluate the California State Water Board's 1994 decision regulating diversions from the watershed and ...

Snow Avalanches part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
In this activity, students have to select the most convenient backcountry ski route to climb a peak located near Brighton ski resort (Utah). In order to select the route, they have to evaluate the information ...

Geologic Issues: Community Impacts and Science Communication part of Teaching Activities
Responding to the need for recruitment and retention of a diverse geoscience population, we developed a capstone homework assignment for use in introductory-level geoscience courses. This is a place- and ...

Activity 7: Limitations of Systems Diagrams part of Teaching Activities
This activity teaches students about the value of planning, knowing, and explaining the limitations of a systems diagram. Students are taught to follow the following four steps when assessing the limitations of a ...

Virtual Landscapes Geological Mapping part of Teaching Activities
A virtual landscape is a virtual reality environment designed to develop geologic mapping and field skills. They include natural landscapes where the geology can be mapped, and interactive 3D block models of ...

Python Programming for Earth Science Students part of Courses
Computers are essential to all modern Earth Science research. We use them for compiling and analyzing data, preparing illustrations like maps or data plots, writing manuscripts, and so on. This class teaches how to ...

Cretaceous Coastlines and Modern Voting Patterns part of GeoContext:GeoContext Collection
× 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 ...

Geologists and Geologic Content in Genre Fiction: Part 1 part of NAGT:Our Resources:In the Trenches:Articles
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series that examines the portrayal of geologists and the presentation of geologic content and concepts in recent genre fiction. Part 1 discusses the novels of authors Sarah Andrews, Jack ...

Geologists and Geologic Content in Genre Fiction: Part 2 part of NAGT:Our Resources:In the Trenches:Articles
This is Part 2 of a 2-part series that examines the portrayal of geologists and geologic content and concepts in recent genre fiction. Part 1 discussed the novels of Sarah Andrews, Jack DuBrul, Sibella Giorello and ...

A tribute to Jeff Callister: In their own words part of NAGT:Our Resources:In the Trenches:Articles
Jeff Callister touched so many lives, both personally and professionally. He was very active in the geosciences community and greatly contributed to the current state of earth science education. Jeff was a guiding ...