@ AGU - Measuring Water Resources with GPS, Gravity, and Traditional Methods: Undergraduate Teaching Module

Course Overview

Looking to incorporate cutting edge water resources data into your undergraduate courses?

Using GPS and gravity data sets in undergraduate courses can be challenging, as few prepared resources are available. Many instructors may only be partially familiar with the wider range of data sets and methods. This short course gives instructors hands-on experience with a curricular module that feature GPS/GNSS and gravity data alongside more traditional water measurement methods such a snow pillow stations and ground water wells. The module features the societal applications of geoscience while challenging them to develop quantitative skills relevant to scientific data analysis. Appropriate for courses such as hydrogeology, hydrology, earth system science, environmental science, and introductory geoscience for majors. The short course also provides structured time for discussion and planning implementation into undergraduate courses.

• Registration is now closed
• Participants should bring a laptop to the short course.
• Module webpage: Measuring Water Resources with GPS, Gravity, and Traditional Methods

• Co-sponsored by GEodetic Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI), AGU, UNAVCO, and NAGT (National Association of Geoscience Teachers).
• Questions contact Beth Pratt-Sitaula (prattsitaula@unavco.org).

Short Course Goals

Participants will:

• Be able to access online teaching resources presented in the short course 
• Practice using teaching resources 
• Construct implementation plan for adopting or adapting relevant teaching resources

Brief Agenda

• Introduction to teaching strategies and geodetic methods
• Overview of Measuring Water Resources with GPS, Gravity, and Traditional Methods module
• Implementation planning
• Overview of other available geodetic teaching resources

Instructors

• Bruce Douglas, Indiana University, douglasb indiana.edu
• Beth Pratt-Sitaula, UNAVCO, prattsitaula unavco.org

Photo credits clockwise from top: California Department of Water Resources, UNAVCO, NASA.

Last modified: 2019-12-24  01:25:45  America/Denver