Utilizing Geoscience Field Data and Modern Technology to Enhance Learning Outcomes

新泽西城市大学地球科学/地理系是一个城市、文化多元化、西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），它正在现代化其现场数据采集和解释能力，并利用它来提高本科课程和研究项目的科学教育质量。学生们现在能够在获取地图数据和解释野外数据时使用现代技术。这种能力的实现促进了更高层次的体验式学习，并促进了创造力、智谋和批判性思维的发展，这些都是在现代工作场所生存和成功所不可或缺的特质。虽然SMET教育的质量和相关性对所有学习地球科学课程的学生都有所提高，但未来的科学教师和科学专业的学生尤其受益于衍生课程的现代化。学生们正在培养对设备和技术的动手能力，他们将被期望在专业上使用。本项目购置的设备包括：配备GIS软件的新计算机6台（用于GIS实验室从6席扩展到12席）；数字空间定位设备3台（GPS接收机2台、全站仪1台）；还有一个数字探地雷达系统，它被用来访问各种地球物理仪器。这种新设备为适应其他地方开发的成功练习和项目提供了基础，供学生使用。休斯敦社区学院（GPS和GIS）、西密歇根大学（野外地球物理）和新泽西地质调查局的练习和项目正在进行调整，以适应我们的学习需求（课程作业和本科研究）和物理限制（地理、地质学和水文地质学）。利用GPS和GIS的野外和实验室练习被纳入许多课程，包括GIS（2门课程）、构造地质学、地层学、野外方法和地球物理学。现场地球物理练习被纳入NJCU的课程，作为扩展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中，并在现场方法中使用。这些练习和项目也可以促进地理学、地质学、水文地质学、地球物理学、生物学、化学和物理学领域的新的单学科和多学科本科研究项目。

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.