Using GPS Data to Teach about the Earth in Introductory Undergraduate Courses
Channel: NAGT
Date: 2020-04-06

Most geoscientists know that high precision GPS data can be used to study plate tectonics and earthquake hazards. Fewer people realize how much can also be learned about changing groundwater and ice mass. This webinar introduces instructors to the Measuring the Earth with GPS: Plate Tectonics and Changing Ice-Water teaching module from the GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI) project. In the course of this module, students not only increase their quantitative skills significantly through reading GPS time series, but gain experience applying the findings to societally important decisions and communicating science to others.


Module is appropriate for a wide variety of introductory-level earth sciences from physical geology to hazards to earth system science. Individual units can be used as stand-alone exercises, taught in sequence, or spread throughout a course based on the topic at hand.


For more information, visit: https://serc.carleton.edu/getsi/workshops/2019oct22/index.html


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