Utilizing Geoscience Field Data and Modern Technology to Enhance Learning Outcomes

利用地球科学现场数据和现代技术来提高学习成果

• 批准号: 0088576
• 负责人: William Montgomery
• 金额: $ 7.51万
• 依托单位: New Jersey City University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-02-15 至 2003-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0088576&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Utilizing; Geoscience; Field; Data; Modern

Geology (42) The Geoscience/Geography Department at New Jersey City University, an urban, culturally diverse, Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), is modernizing its field data acquisition and interpretation capability and utilizing this to improve the quality of science education in undergraduate courses and research projects. Students are now able to use modern technology when they acquire map data and interpret field data. The implementation of this capability is promoting higher levels of experiential learning and fostering the development of creativity, resourcefulness, and critical thinking, all traits that are indispensable for survival and success in the modern workplace. While the quality and relevance of SMET education is improved for all students taking geoscience courses, future science teachers and science majors in particular are benefiting from derivative curricular modernization. Students are developing hands-on expertise with equipment and technology that they will be expected to use professionally. The equipment acquired in this project includes six new computers equipped with GIS software (for GIS lab expansion from 6 to 12 seats); three pieces of digital spatial positioning equipment (2 GPS receivers and one total station); and one digital ground penetrating radar system that is being leveraged to gain access to a full range of geophysical instruments. This new equipment has provided the basis for adapting successful exercises and projects that have been developed elsewhere for student use. Exercises and projects from Houston Community College (GPS and GIS), Western Michigan University (field geophysics), and the New Jersey Geological Survey are being adapted to suit our learning needs (in coursework and in undergraduate research) and physical limitations (geography, geology, and hydrogeology). Field and lab exercises utilizing GPS and GIS are incorporated into a number of courses, including GIS (2 courses), Structural Geology, Stratigraphy, Field Methods, and Geophysics. Field geophysics exercises are being incorporated into the NJCU curriculum as part of an expanded Geophysics two-course sequence, inserted into our Hydrogeology two-course sequence, and utilized in Field Methods. These exercises and projects also serve as catalysts for new single- and multi-discipline undergraduate research projects that are developed in geography, geology, hydrogeology, geophysics, biology, chemistry, and physics.

地质学（42）地球科学/地理系在泽西城大学，一个城市，文化多样性，西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），是现代化的现场数据采集和解释能力，并利用这一点来提高本科课程和研究项目的科学教育质量。学生现在能够使用现代技术，当他们获得地图数据和解释现场数据。这种能力的实施促进了更高水平的体验式学习，并促进了创造力，机智和批判性思维的发展，所有这些都是现代工作场所生存和成功所不可或缺的特征。虽然SMET教育的质量和相关性提高了所有学生参加地球科学课程，未来的科学教师和科学专业的学生，特别是受益于衍生课程的现代化。学生们正在开发动手的专业知识与设备和技术，他们将被期望专业使用。该项目购置的设备包括6台装有地理信息系统软件的新计算机（地理信息系统实验室的座位从6个扩大到12个）; 3台数字空间定位设备（2台全球定位系统接收器和1台全站仪）;以及1台数字探地雷达系统，该系统正被用来使用各种地球物理仪器。这种新设备为调整其他地方为学生使用而开发的成功练习和项目提供了基础。休斯顿社区学院（GPS和GIS），西密歇根大学（野外物理学）和新泽西地质调查局的练习和项目正在适应我们的学习需求（课程和本科研究）和物理限制（地理，地质和水文地质）。利用全球定位系统和地理信息系统的实地和实验室练习被纳入一些课程，包括地理信息系统（2门课程），结构地质学，地层学，实地方法和地球物理学。现场地球物理学练习被纳入NJCU课程作为扩大的地球物理学两门课程序列的一部分，插入到我们的水文地质学两门课程序列，并在现场方法中使用。这些练习和项目也作为催化剂，为新的单学科和多学科的本科研究项目，在地理，地质学，水文地质学，地球物理学，生物学，化学和物理学开发。