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The Appalachians in a sandbox: undergraduate research being presented at GSA...
A mountain range like the Appalachians is the result of rock along hundreds of kilometres of plate boundary deforming over millions of years. Curiously, if we want to see these processes in action by...
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Simulating radioactive decay
3.8 billion years! 4 billion years! 4.4 billion years! 4.57 billion years! When discussing the age of the Earth in introductory geology, I think it is important for students to know at least the basic...
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Undergraduate research presented at GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle
As a follow-up to his presentation at the GSA Northeastern/North-Central meeting in the Spring, KSU undergraduate Joe Wislocki presented more results from analogue modelling of the formation of the...
View ArticleNew Paper – Signatures of Reductive Magnetic Mineral Diagenesis From Unmixing...
One of the key themes in my early research career was trying to understand the magnetic signature of rocks where the primary remanence was not carried by iron oxides like magnetite, but instead iron...
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Adventures in 3D printing
Over the past few months I have been experimenting with possible educational uses of 3D printing1, in two main areas: Terrain models The online TouchTerrain tool makes it easy to generate .STL files...
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AGU 2019 Poster: do analogue sandbox models help students to visualise...
For the first time in a while, I attended the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, to reveal the results of my first foray into education research: Click on the image to download a pdf...
View ArticleCongratulations to Chenjian Fu for a successful MS thesis defense!
Congratulations to Chenjian Fu for successful defending his MS thesis, ‘Global Paleomagnetic Data Analysis: Improved Methods of Reconstructing Plate Motions Using Paleomagnetic Data‘. Abstract...
View ArticleCongratulations to Lucy Dyer for a successful MS thesis defense!
Congratulations to Lucy Dyer for successful defending her MS thesis, ‘Identifying marine magnetic anomalies using machine learning‘. Abstract Magnetic reversal boundaries identified from marine...
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Returning to large in-person classes – now with added polls and reflections!
This semester I was teaching a large in-person section of our general education physical geology course, ‘How The Earth Works’, for the first time since Spring 2020. In this class students earn 20% of...
View ArticleNew Paper: an innovative cycle-based learning approach to teaching with...
A new paper by me and education expert Bridget Mulvey grapples with the question: analogue sandbox models are cool, but are they effective teaching tools? Analogue models are a way of demonstrating...
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