AFGE: Seismology and Verifying Nuclear Test Ban Treaties -- An Initiative to Link Geosciences and Public Policy in Undergraduate Education

9809570Nyblade在本科教育中提出了一项倡议，将地震学的地球科学与核查禁止核试验条约的公共政策问题联系起来。 这项倡议包括设计两个新的本科课程，修改现有的两个研究生课程，修改现有的两个研究生课程，并在宾夕法尼亚州立大学创建一个普遍可用的网络资源。 网络资源将包括学习模块、模拟软件和一个数据库，以便利在课程和信息方面的实践和基于发现的学习。 课程开发包括通识教育课程，“地震学和监测核禁试条约”，将使学生接触地质学，地球物理学和以全面禁止条约（CTBT）为中心的国际政策概念。 “法医地震学”将是一个高层次的地球科学专业课程，基于相同的原则，发现为基础的学习，将涵盖技术材料更深入。 这两门本科课程还将让学生接触实际的地震数据收集，通过动手工作与廉价的宽带天文台和现场部署5折射地震仪。 将构成这些课程核心的网络资源将免费提供给其他机构，以便在其他地方传播这些课程。 该网络资源也将成为公众在地球科学在核不扩散和《全面禁试条约》核查方面的作用这一重要领域的教育工具。 本科课程的开发，实施和评估将正式完成与宾夕法尼亚州立大学的Schreyer创新与学习研究所的专业知识。

9809570NybladeAn initiative in undergraduate education is proposed linking the geoscience of seismology with the public policy issue of verifying nuclear test ban treaties. This initiative consists of designing two new undergraduate courses, modifying two existing graduate courses, modifying two existing graduate courses, and creating a universally available Web resource at Penn State University. The Web resource will consist of learning modules, simulation software, and a database that will facilitate hands-on, discovery-based learning in the courses and information for the national and international public. Course development includes a general education course, "Seismology and Monitoring Nuclear Test Ban Treaties" that will expose students to concepts in geology, geophysics, and international policy centered about the Comprehensive Ban Treaty (CTBT). "Forensic Seismology" will be an upper level geosciences majors course based on the same principles of discovery-based learning that will cover technical material in greater depth. Both undergraduate courses will also expose students to actual seismic data collection through hands-on work with an inexpensive broadband observatory and field deployments of 5 refraction seismographs. The Web resource that will form the core of these courses will be freely available to other institutions to disseminate these courses elsewhere. The Web resource will also be an educational instrument for the general public in the important area of the role of geosciences in nuclear non-proliferation and verification of the CTBT. The development, implementation, and assessment of the undergraduate courses will be formally accomplished with the expertise of Penn State's Schreyer Institute for Innovation and Learning.