Teachers on the Leading Edge (TOTLE) 2009

List of UNAVCO Educational Activities

Introduction to GPS, How to Read Time Series Plots, GPS in California, Episodic Tremor and Slope, Will in Grow, and more!

GPS Velocity Viewer

See the GPS vectors of the world on this map. Note: Beneath the map are the options to control the view.

How fast is your school moving

Find a GPS station near your school

URLS of interest: visualization tools and more

 

Data for Educators

 

LiDAR images of the Puget Sound Area

Puget Sound Lidar Consortium more images available for Snoqualmie Valley (from: USGS) http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/lidardata/index.html#Topographic_images

LiDAR images for Yellowstone area and San Andreas Fault

LiDAR images which load into Google Earth as kml or kmz files.

Google Earth KMZ with Geophysics Collections

GPS velocity vectors, earthquake locations, volcano locations, plate boundaries, LiDAR, age of the ocean floor, and more!

LiDAR image Bainbridge

 

Jules Verne Voyager and other tools

Jules Verne Voyager, Jr. and EarthScope Voyager Junior are made for the classroom. Explore earthquakes, age of the ocean floor, volcanoes, relative motion, etc.

Will It Blow? Monitoring Yellowsone's Volcanic Activity

 

Photos from the TOTLE workshop

 

When is the next ETS (Episodic Tremor and Slip):

Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network Slow Tremor Press Releases

Lecture: New Discoveries using Geodesy [October 2009] [ppt]

19mb Powerpoint: What is geodesy & GPS, review of Plate Tectonics,about UNAVCO, EarthScope, US Array, Plate Boundary Observatory, and new discoveries and research applications using Geodetic Techniques.