Laboratory Assignments

• Lab #1: Internet Use and the Planets
• Lab #2: Remote Sensing Basics
• Lab #3: The Great Salt Lake Map Activity (or Salton Sea)
• Lab #4: Rock Lab
• Lab #5: Earthquakes & Volcanoes
• Lab #5b: East African Rift - The Virunga Mountains
• Lab #6: Stratigraphy on the Colorado Plateau (part 1)
• Lab #7: Population Growth, Energy Use, and Pollution
• Lab #7b: Petroleum Geology: Persian Gulf vs. Overthrust Belt
• Lab #8:  Interpretation of Stream Drainage Patterns 
• Lab #8a: Finding Hydrologic Data on the Internet
• Lab #9: Aquifers under Threat: the Oglalla , Edwards, Barnes and others
• Lab #9a: Floods in the Midwest
• Lab #9b:Life in the Sahel--Nomadism and Transhumance (under construction)
• Lab #9c:Water and Life in the Dry World (North Africa to Central Asia - under construction)
• Lab #10:   Geomorphic Provinces and landscapes in North America - continued from Lab #6 (part 2)
• Lab #10a: The Great Salt Lake, Saline Lakes, and Global Change
• Lab Activities on Glaciation:
   
  • Virtual Fieldtrip-Little Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Range
  • Alpine Glacial Landscapes and Landforms
  • Sea Ice and Polar Oceans
    
    
• Lab #11: Calculating Individual or Regional Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Lab #12: Ozone Depletion at the South Pole
• Lab #13: Interpreting weather data/maps
• Lab #13b: Finding Climate Data
• Lab #14: Severe Weather and Storms
• Lab #14a:  The Asian Monsoon 
• Lab #15:  Climate Change - Impacts and Consequences
• Lab #15a: Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS and GIEWS)
• Lab #16 - Calculating Nutrient flows
• Lab #16b: East African Rift - Virunga Mountain Ecosystems
• Lab #17: Gap Analysis
• Lab #17a: SNEP (Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project)
• Lab #18: Environmental Hazards along the US/Mexico Border