Unit 2: Environmental Magnetism part of Locating Subsurface Features using Gravity and Magnetics
This module introduces students to the underlying principles of magnetism and its application in environmental investigations. Students are introduced to major concepts on magnetism through a narrated video that ...

Unit 1: Locating Buried Objects Using Gravity part of Locating Subsurface Features using Gravity and Magnetics
This in-class/lab/homework activity introduces students to the idea that the gravitational acceleration g varies across the surface of the earth and is sensitive to buried features. Students are asked to ...

Unit 1: What Is Ground-Penetrating Radar? part of Forensic Geophysics Using Ground Penetrating Radar
This unit introduces the concepts behind ground-penetrating radar (GPR) through a comparison to medical imaging, building on what students may already know or be familiar with. The concepts are then extended to ...

Unit 3: Develop and Test Models of Landslide Susceptibility part of Planning for Failure: Landslide Analysis
How do geoscientists confidently create landslide susceptibility maps based on empirical data? Together with Unit 2: Examining the Distribution of Mass Wasting Events, this exercise helps students use GIS to gain ...

Unit 5: Mapping the Impact of 100 and 500-year Floods part of Flood Hazards
Most often, we characterize floods based on their return periods. Considering new land developments and the changing climate, what was once a 100-year flood may change over time. Thus, if we are going to experience ...

Unit 2: How Seismic Waves Travel Through the Ground part of Measuring Depth to Bedrock Using Seismic Refraction
This unit presents core underlying principles needed to understand refraction seismology concepts including refraction of rays, types of seismic waves, interpreting information about subsurface materials from ...

Unit 1: Mass Wasting Identification and Quantification part of Planning for Failure: Landslide Analysis
How can geoscientists identify and quantify landslide events using remote sensing data? The analysis of mass wasting events from remotely sensed data is a complicated task, burdened by the range of geomorphic ...