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Integrating Macrostrat and Rockd into Undergraduate Earth Science Teaching

By: Phoebe A. Cohen,Rowan Lockwood,Shanan Peters

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Integrating Macrostrat and Rockd into Undergraduate Earth Science Teaching

By: Phoebe A. Cohen,Rowan Lockwood,Shanan Peters

New online resources are opening doors for education and outreach in the Earth sciences. One of the most innovative online earth science portals is Macrostrat and its mobile client Rockd - an interface that combines geolocated geological maps with stratigraphic information, lithological data, and crowd-sourced images and descriptions of outcrops. These tools provide a unique educational opportunity for students to interact with primary geological data, create connections between local outcrops and global patterns, and make new field observations. Rockd incorporates an aspect of social media to its platform, which creates a sense of community for users. This Element outlines these resources, gives instructions on how to use them, and provides examples of how to integrate these resources into a variety of paleontology and earth science courses.

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Cambridge University Press

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110859963X

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9781108599634

The Negev

The Challenge of a Desert

By: Michael Evenari,Leslie Shanan,Naphtali Tadmor

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The Negev

The Challenge of a Desert

By: Michael Evenari,Leslie Shanan,Naphtali Tadmor

The Negev, first published over a decade ago, told the story of some twenty years of study of southern Israel's desert. It synthesized the findings of botanists, geologists, soil scientists, agronomists, archaeologists, historians, and engineers and told how the applications of their work produced an agricultural surplus in this forbiddingly dry, hot region. Now Michael Evenari has amplified the book with data from another decade of work. He describes the efforts at a new farm at Wadi Mashash, extends the weather data another ten years, presents further work on the adaptations of plants and animals to desert conditions, and takes a much deeper look at the historical precedents for the method of runoff agriculture, which has made the desert bloom.

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Harvard University Press

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0674606728

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9780674606722