ED51A:
Approaches that Facilitate Learning in Applied Geophysics Posters

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Session ID#: 13622

Session Description:
Applied geophysics is being taught to undergraduates in both classroom and field settings. Our audience is academically diverse; it includes students pursuing various fields and who come to us with a range of quantitative skills. Often our goal is to share the uses and limitations of various geophysical techniques, and to highlight basic quantitative concepts. We incorporate case-based, experiential, and field-based learning opportunities where technology plays an important part, but this may also pose sincere limitations for small institutions. The key objective of this session is to share best practices which allow students to learn about and apply key concepts of applied geophysics in a range of academic settings (from large research-intensive institutions to small community colleges, from large lecture based courses to small group research experiences). We are particularly interested in any approaches linked to quantitative and/or qualitative research that assesses the pedagogical merit of these approaches.
Primary Convener:  Carl-Georg Bank, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States and Sarah Kruse, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
Chairs:  Carl-Georg Bank, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States and Sarah Kruse, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carl-Georg Bank, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Co-Organized with:
Near Surface Geophysics, and Near Surface Geophysics

Cross-Listed:
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • S - Seismology

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Building expertise in glaciology through intense international summer schools (132069)
Regine Hock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
Geophysics field school: A team-based learning experience for students and faculty (160599)
Brandon Karchewski, University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada, Kristopher A Innanen, University of Calgary, CREWES, Calgary, AB, Canada, Rachel M Lauer, University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada and Adam Pidlisecky, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Seismic Site Characterizations and Earthquake Loss Estimation Analyses for K-12 Schools in Washington State (195890)
Recep Cakir1, Timothy J Walsh2, Koichi Hayashi3, David K. Norman2, Todd Lau2 and Spenser Scott4, (1)Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Washington Geological Survey, Port Angeles, WA, United States, (2)Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Washington Geological Survey, Olympia, WA, United States, (3)Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan, (4)Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources, Olympia, WA, United States
Archaeological Geophysics in Field Courses and Flipped-Classrooms: Lessons Learned from the Marine and Geological Science Programs at North Carolina State University (168222)
Delwayne R Bohnenstiehl, North Carolina State University, Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, United States, John Wall, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Dale Parker Sprinkle II, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Innovative Ideas for Developing Geophysics Field Schools in Classes with Small Numbers: Experience Gained from the AfricaArray/Wits Geophysics International Field School (192561)
Susan Jane Webb1, Musa Siphiwe Manzi2, Stephanie Elizabeth Scheiber-Enslin3, Raymond J Durrheim3 and Andrew Nyblade4, (1)University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, (2)University of Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences, Wits, South Africa, (3)University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences, Johannesburg, South Africa, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
SIGKit: a New Data-based Software for Learning Introductory Geophysics (198415)
Yepin Zhang1, Sarah Kruse2, Ophelia George2, Sanaz Esmaeili3, Konstantinos Sacha Papadimitrios1, Carl-Georg Bank1, Alex Cadmus1, Noah Kenneally1, Katherine Patton1 and Jerry Brusher4, (1)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, (3)University of South Florida, Tampa, United States, (4)MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, United States
GeoSci: Practices to Collaboratively Build Online Resources for Geophysics Education (Invited) (185468)
Lindsey Justine Heagy1, Rowan Cockett2 and Doug Oldenburg1, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Calgary, AB, Canada
The Seismic Tool-Kit (STK): An Open Source Software For Learning the Basis of Signal Processing and Seismology. (186892)
Dominique Reymond, Laboratoire de Géophysique Tahiti, CEA/LDG, Papeete, French Polynesia
Inquiry-based learning transitions to interdisciplinary research at a small primarily undergraduate institution. (190847)
Heather Lehto, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX, United States and James W Ward, Angelo State University, Physics and Geosciences, San Angelo, TX, United States
Young Geophysicists: ‘Know How’ Tips to Nourish Them from Lectures and Seminars to Field Work and Conferences (Geology and Geophysics Department, Novosibirsk State University, GGD, NSU). (184854)
Iraida F Rakhmenkulova, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

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