HR: 11:05h
AN: ED32A-04    [Abstracts]
TI: Using Research Data to Stimulate Critical Thinking in Undergraduate Geoscience Courses: Examples and Future Directions
AU: * Reed, D L
EM: dreed@sjsu.edu
AF: San Jose State University, Dept. of Geology, San Jose, CA 95192-0102, United States
AU: Moore, G F
EM: gmoore@jamstec.go.jp
AF: Center for Deep Earth Exploration, JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan
AU: Bangs, N L
EM: nathan@utig.ig.utexas.edu
AF: University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, 4412 Spicewood Springs Rd. #600, Austin, TX 78759-8500, United States
AU: Tobin, H
EM: htobin@wisc.edu
AF: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Madison, WI 53706, United States
AB: The results of major research initiatives, such as NSF-MARGINS, IODP and its predecessors DSDP and ODP, Ridge 2000, and NOAA's Ocean Explorer and Vents Programs provide a rich library of resources for inquiry-based learning in undergraduate classes in the geosciences. These materials are scalable for use in general education courses for the non-science major to upper division major and graduate courses, which are both content-rich and research-based. Examples of these materials include images and animations drawn from computer presentations at research workshops and audio/video clips from web sites, as well as data repositories, which can be accessed through GeoMapApp, a data exploration and visualization tool developed as part of the Marine Geoscience Data System by researchers at the LDEO (http://www.geomapapp.org/). Past efforts have focused on recreating sea-going research experiences by integrating and repurposing these data in web-based virtual environments to stimulate active student participation in laboratory settings and at a distance over the WWW. Virtual expeditions have been created based on multibeam mapping of the seafloor near the Golden Gate, bathymetric transects of the major ocean basins, subduction zone seismicity and related tsunamis, water column mapping and submersible dives at hydrothermal vents, and ocean drilling of deep-sea sediments to explore climate change. Students also make use of multichannel seismic data provided through the Marine Seismic Data Center of UTIG to study subduction zone processes at convergent plate boundaries. We will present the initial stages of development of a web-based virtual expedition for use in undergraduate classes, based on a recent 3-D seismic survey associated with the NanTroSEIZE program of NSF-MARGINS and IODP to study the properties of the plate boundary fault system in the upper limit of the seismogenic zone off Japan.
UR: http://oceansjsu.com
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 3000 MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS
DE: 3060 Subduction zone processes (1031, 3613, 8170, 8413)
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting