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Environmental Earth Science in the News Roundup #4

A week of earth system interactions, charismatic critters, and consequences of societal and inividual choices in this week’s news roundup.

Environmental Earth Science in the News Roundup #3

From composting to ways the Earth can kill you. We’ve got a bit of everything in this week’s roundup.

Environmental Earth Science in the News Roundup #2

https://storify.com/highlyanne/environmental-earth-science-in-the-news-roundup-2

Rayleigh isotope distillation module – development and transferability in geoscience education

The Watershed Hydrology lab will be out in force for the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Vancouver in October. Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing the abstracts of the work we are presenting there. RAYLEIGH ISOTOPE DISTILLATION MODULE – DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFERABILITY IN GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION GRIFFITH, …

Hands-on experiences with stable isotopes in the geosciences curriculum

The Watershed Hydrology lab will be out in force for the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Vancouver in October. Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing the abstracts of the work we are presenting there. HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES WITH STABLE ISOTOPES IN THE GEOSCIENCES CURRICULUM JEFFERSON, Anne J.1, …

Kent State Environmental Earth Science News Roundup #1

This semester, students in Environmental Earth Science are sharing news stories that they find that are relevant to our class.

Mountaintop Removal Mining

This semester I’m teaching Environmental Earth Science to a fantastic group of students at Kent State. In tomorrow’s class about fossil fuels, we’ll be talking about coal formation, use, and environmental consequences. A big one I think they should be aware of is the practice of mountaintop removal mining in …

Watershed Hydrology Trip to Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory

Kent State University Department of Geology’s Watershed Hydrology class visited the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory on April 5-6, 2014. Penn State post-doc Pamela Sullivan gave them a tour of the watershed and its instrumentation, with a focus on how the measurements could contribute to understanding how hydrology drives …

Anne is wading into streams and science education

Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous Yesterday, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the lovely Bethany Brookshire for her Eureka!Lab blog at Student Science, part of Society for Science and the Public. You can check out the interview on Eureka!Lab or scroll down to watch the video. I loved doing …

Bedload transport videos FTW

Today in Fluvial Processes, I’ll be talking about sediment transport. It’s one of those subjects that can easily get bogged down in lots and lots of math, but I prefer to start out with getting students to watch and describe the processes that occur as grains move along the bed …