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Overview Of today’s short course: Explore Plate Tectonics Using GPS Data Shelley E. Olds

Overview Of today’s short course: Explore Plate Tectonics Using GPS Data Shelley E. Olds olds@unavco.org NSTA 2008 National Conference March 27, 2008 UNAVCO. Short Course Content. Why we are here today Share UNAVCO as a resource

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Overview Of today’s short course: Explore Plate Tectonics Using GPS Data Shelley E. Olds

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  1. Overview Of today’s short course: Explore Plate Tectonics Using GPS Data Shelley E. Olds olds@unavco.org NSTA 2008 National Conference March 27, 2008 UNAVCO

  2. Short Course Content Why we are here today • Share UNAVCO as a resource • Learn about exciting science: Current GPS research and discoveries • Provide educational materials • Think about how to add to your teaching Materials are available at: http://www.unavco.org/cws/UsingData/

  3. Today’s Activities • Explore concepts & relationships with visualization tools: Jules Verne Voyager tools and Google Earth overlays • Digging deeper: Examine evidence through data products. Data for Educators & GPS time series plots • Starting at the source: Access & analyze GPS data to investigate trends. GPS data sets

  4. Course Outcomes Participants will be able to • Discuss high-precision GPS and its application to plate tectonics, volcanoes, and earthquakes, • Interpret GPS time series plots to determine regional plate velocity • Access resources to support classroom implementation, • Implement these resources in a your classroom

  5. 21st Century Science • Integrating research and education • What is the cutting edge research in crustal deformation • How is it done • What new discoveries are being made • Nature of science • Engaging students with Earth system data • Quantitative skills • Visualization of data • Models – what are they, how do we develop • Integration of data • Careers in geosciences

  6. Getting students beyond…

  7. Think About… Instructional Approaches … Lecture w/ Discussion and/or questions (clickers) Students need: • Varied instructional approaches … • Varied learning styles • Varied modes of processing information (verbal, written, visual, kinesthetic, etc) • To learn how to think like scientists… Inquiry-base learning Guided activities Constructivist Lecture Passive Active Not to scale

  8. Plate Boundary Observatory • A continent-scale network of GPS, borehole, and laser strainmeters focusing on the extended plate boundary and extending into the continental interior • Measurements of • Extension/compression • Dilatation • Tilt

  9. GPS Stations

  10. US Transportable Array A continent-spanning deployment of seismometers for imaging the deep interior of the North American continent

  11. SAFOD A borehole laboratory on the San Andreas fault studying the physics of earthquake nucleation at the depths where earthquakes begin.

  12. URLs • NSTA Short Course Materials • http://www.unavco.org:8080/cws/UsingData/ • UNAVCO Data for Educators • http://www.unavco.org/edu_outreach/data.html • UNAVCO Educations Resources • http://www.unavco.org:8080/cws/modules/ • Jules Verne Voyage map tools • http://www.unavco.org/edu_outreach/maptools.html • http://jules.unavco.org/VoyagerJr/Earth • http://jules.unavco.org/VoyagerJr/EarthScope • Google Earth w/ • http://pboweb.unavco.org/products/velocity/pbo_final_frame.kmz • http://facility.unavco.org/data/maps/maps.html • IDV GEON • http://geon.unavco.org/unavco/IDV_for_GEON.html

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