Webinar Schedule

New and upcoming NAGT webinars.

Math for Earth Science Majors: Building Confidence, Skills, and Success

Eric Baer, Highline College
Rory McFadden, SERC
Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope Consortium

Date: April 24, 2025
Time: 10 AM HST | 12 PM AKDT | 1 PM PDT | 2 PM MDT | 3 PM CDT | 4 PM EDT (1 hour)

Struggling to help your Earth science majors build the quantitative skills they need? Join us for this dynamic webinar designed for undergraduate instructors. Learn how the14 math and statistics modules developed byThe Math Your Earth Science Majors Need project can seamlessly integrate into your courses, reinforcing key math and stats concepts in a geoscience context. Discover ready-to-use, self-paced resources that have been shown to boost student confidence and success across a range of courses and institutions. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your students' math skills—and your teaching!

Geochemical databases as an entry point to working with big data

Karin Block-Cora, City College of New York
Dori Farthing, SUNY Geneseo

Date: April 30, 2025
Time: 5 AM HST | 7 AM AKDT | 8 AM PDT | 9 AM MDT | 10 AM CDT | 11 AM EDT (1 hour)

Familiarity with big data is necessary for students to be competitive in the geoscience workforce. While the tools evolve over time, the ability to handle, evaluate, and present data is timeless and requires practice with datasets that are often messy and complicated. Why not use real data to teach and learn the basics? This interactive webinar will introduce participants to the NSF-supported IEDA databases that archive/ chemical analyses and other valuable metadata from rocks, minerals, and volcanic glasses published in the literature. We invite you to learn what kind of data are available, how to access them, and how to customize your data search. We will show you where to find expert-curated datasets, the EarthChem Library, and educational resources collected in the IEDA online resource collection and the Teach the Earth portal. Come see some practical approaches for using big data in the classroom and examples of how students have engaged with it. We invite you to contribute your own ideas to existing activities or create new ones.

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