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Environmental Geoscience - "Geoscience in the News" Presentation Assignment

This assignment will give you experience applying course content material to a specific and current real-life example.

Instructions -

A. Select a news item.

Beginning immediately browse local, regional, national, and international news publications for news items that are geosciences related. The news item should fit into one of the primary Environmental Science areas of concern: natural hazards, earth resource supply/use, or environmental damage. The news items should also be a specific event or developing issue at a specific locality (anywhere in the world).

B. Reserve your news item.

Only one student in the class is allowed to use any one news item as their topic for this assignment. In order to avoid duplication each student will reserve their news item as follows:

C. Research your news item and its geoscience.

Learn as much as you can about the geosdence of your news item through primary and secondary resources (you will receive a separate handout for an explanation of primary and secondary resources). Use as many primary resources as possible and some of your resources MUST be primary. Pertinent information includes:

Geology of the locality and its region including rock types, structures, surficial materials, and regional tectonics.
Any history of similar events in the same locality.
Analysis of one or more similar events at other localities.
Any analysis already being offered on the event you have chosen.

D. Interpret the geoscience of your news item.

Apply your knowledge of geoscience to your news item.

What natural/geologic processes must have been involved in bringing about the event or environmental issue?

What human activities are pertinent to the event and it's impacts?

To what degree could the event have been anticipated or predicted?

What human actions would you recommend towards remediation of the impacts of this event and preventing re-occurrence of the similar impacts in the future?

E. Create a Powerpoint presentation and present your results.

Your Powerpoint presentation should summarize the news item, your research, and your interpretation. All of the bullets above should be addressed.

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len2146522

10/22/2018 12:09:10 AM

When you find a news item that you would like to base your presentation on, but before you begin studying it in any detail, make sure that you are not choosing a news item that another student is already working on: Go to Blackboard for the course and click into the Course Blogs page. Open the Presentation Topics blog item. Scroll through the existing presentation topic titles to see if another student is already working on your topic new item. If the answer is Yes, go back and choose another news item/topic. If the answer is NO, immediately claim your chosen news item/topic by creating a new Blog Entry - type in the headline of your news item and the date of the news item into the Title field, if you found the news item online, copy the URS of the news item webpage into the text window, and then click on Post Entry.

len2146522

10/22/2018 12:09:04 AM

NOTE: Keep track of every source you use - make a printout or a copy of each one, bookmark each online resource into a dedicated Favorites folder, etc. Create a Powerpoint presentation and present your results. Your Powerpoint presentation should summarize the news item, your research, and your interpretation. All of the bullets above should be addressed. You will present your news item using your Powerpoint as visual aid during the last class session of the course. You will have 15 minutes for your presentation. NOTE: Your Powerpoint file will need to be on a CD or USB drive.

len2146522

10/22/2018 12:08:59 AM

You will turn in to your professor the following: A copy of your Powerpoint presentation. A one-page abstract of your report followed by a list of your resources. A hardcopy of the first page of each resource - except when the resource is an entire book or a map.

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