2003 Seattle Annual Meeting (November 2–5, 2003)

Session No. 138
Tuesday, 4 November 2003: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM

T41. Innovative Approaches to Teaching Sedimentary Geology Courses

GSA Geoscience Education Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; National Association of Geoscience Teachers

 

Karen Grove, Marjorie A. Chan and R. Heather Macdonald, Advocates
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10:00 AM
SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM SOLVING AND TEAMWORK: ACQUIRING CAREER SKILLS IN A SEDIMENTOLOGY COURSE
GROVE, Karen, Geosciences, San Francisco State Univ, Dept. of Geosiences, San Francisco, CA 94132, kgrove@sfsu.edu, kgrove@sfsu.edu
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10:15 AM
INSIGHTS INTO BILLABLE HOURS: PLANNING AND EXECUTING LAKE STUDIES
GASTALDO, Robert A., Geology Department, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901, ragastal@colby.edu, ragastal@colby.edu
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10:30 AM
USING EXPERIMENTAL SEDIMENTOLOGY IN INQUIRY-BASED EXERCISES: FROM THE GRAIN TO THE BASIN SCALE
HICKSON, Thomas A., Department of Geology, Univ of St. Thomas, OWS 153, 2115 Summit Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55105, PAOLA, Chris, Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Drive SE, Room 108, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0219 and HELLER, Paul, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3006, Laramie, WY 82071, tahickson@stthomas.edu, tahickson@stthomas.edu
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10:45 AM
USING NUMERICAL MODELS TO TEACH THE NATURE OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD
HERRMANN, Achim D., Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State Univ, 439 Deike Bldg, University Park, PA 16802, achim@geosc.psu.edu, achim@geosc.psu.edu
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11:00 AM
TIDES AND TURBIDITY FLOW: TWO LEARNING OBJECTS FOR TEACHING SEDIMENTOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
O'CONNELL, Suzanne, E&ES, Wesleyan Univ, 265 Church St, Middletown, CT 06459, LOYER, Anne, Information Technology, Wesleyan Univ, Science Library 176, Middletown, CT 06459, GLADSTONE, William A., Information Technology, Wesleyan Univ, Science Library 174, Middletown, CT 06459 and SINGER, Jill, Dept. of Earth Science, Buffalo State College, Sci. Building 352, Buffalo, NY 14222, soconnell@wesleyan.edu, soconnell@wesleyan.edu
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11:15 AM
INTUITIVE SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: REPLACING LECTURES WITH INQUIRY-BASED COMPUTER LABS
SUMNER, Dawn Y., Univ of California - Davis, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616-5270, sumner@geology.ucdavis.edu, sumner@geology.ucdavis.edu
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11:30 AM
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS FOR UNDERGRADUATE SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY: TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE
MELIM, Leslie A., Geology Department, Western Illinois Univ, 1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455, LA-Melim@wiu.edu, LA-Melim@wiu.edu
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11:45 AM
THE VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL TRAIL OF TIME: COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES FOR TEACHING GEOLOGY AT THE NATIONAL PARKS
CROSSEY, Laura J.1, KARLSTROM, Karl E.2, CROW, Ryan3, WEIMER, Paul4, WILLIAMS, Michael L.5, ROESINK, John6 and AUSTIN, Jay6, (1)Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ. of New Mexico, Northrop Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (2)Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ of New Mexico, Northrop Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (3)Univ Colorado - Boulder, PO Box 399, Boulder, CO 80309-0399, (4)Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, (5)Department of Geosciences, Univ of Massachusetts, 611 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003-5820, (6)Geological Sciences, Univ Colorado - Boulder, Campus Box 399, Boulder, CO 80309-0399, lcrossey@unm.edu, lcrossey@unm.edu
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