COASTAL CHANGE - EarthKAM Course

UPDATED - February 10  - NOTE - There have been some major schedule changes due to the change in the STS-93 Mission Schedule - Please review carefully

Instructors: Nancy Parson (Lead), Eve Katuna, Jim Nicholson, Kathy Rackley, Ellen Vaughan

All Classes on Mondays unless otherwise indicated-- MUSC  Children's Hospital, Room CH204 from 4:15-6:30 PM

Coastal Change

October 5 - Orientation
Overview of Coastal Change-- Guest Lecturer -Dr. Dorsey Worthy, NOAA

October 12 - Development of Beaches & Coastal Geology--Guest Lecturer -Dr. Michael Katuna, College of Charleston
Computer Workshop

October 24 (Saturday 9:00 - 11:00AM) - Beach Field Trip-Beach Morphology and Ground Truthing -- Margaret Spigner, Middleton High School

October 26 - Computer Workshop 4:15- 5:15 Computer Lab on  4th Floor of Library Building
Barrier Islands and the Aesthetics of Earth Imagery - 5:30 - 6:30 -- Guest Lecturer -Mary Edna Fraser, artist

November 9 - Geology, Plate Tectonics, Volcanism --  Guest Lecturer,  Dr. Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston and Eve Katuna, Drayton Hall Middle School

November 16 - Computer Lab 4:15- 6:30 Computer Lab on  4th Floor of Library Building

Demonstrate Homework  -  Virtual Globe   -  Picking Favorite Images

November 30 - Waves, Water & Currents -- Guest lecturer - Dr. David Eslinger, NOAA - MUSC  Children's Hospital, Room CH204

Computer Lab - Using Internet Search Engines

December 7 - Image Project Development - MUSC  Children's Hospital, Room CH204

Mystery image - Sample Projects - Assign Image Project

January 4 - Image Project Development - Slider Maps - MUSC  Children's Hospital, Room CH204

Present and turn in project proposals

January 11-  Image Downloading & Annotation -

- Image orientation and scale - Image Annotation - Adobe PhotoShop v5.0

January 18 - MLK - No Class

January 25 Computer Lab 4:15- 6:30

-Download Images  -  Presentation of Image Projects

February 1 - SLIDER Maps - Individual Projects

February 8 - SMOC Training

February 15 - No Class Scheduled

February 22 - PhotoShop Training - MUSC Research Building - 1st Floor - Room RS111 - Module 1&2 (below Jim's Office)

March 1 - SMOC Computer Training & Image Download - Computer Lab Rm 438 on  4th Floor of Library Building

March 8 - SMOC Computer Training & Image Download - Computer Lab Rm 438 on  4th Floor of Library Building

March 12 - EarthKAM SMOC SIM 1:00 - 4:00PM (requires pre-registration with EarthKAM at UCSD)

March 16 - EarthKAM SMOC SIM 12:00 - 3:00PM (requires pre-registration with EarthKAM at UCSD)

March 15 - Present Projects - MUSC  Children's Hospital, Room CH204 (Last Regular Class meeting)

Monday April 19 (4:00-6:00 PM)- CAN DO Project/EarthKAM Meeting - Regional SMOC Planning -

MUSC Research Building - 1st Floor - Room RS111 - Module 1&2 (below Jim's Office)

Monday May 3 (4:00-6:00 PM) - CAN DO Project/EarthKAM Meeting - Regional SMOC Planning -

MUSC Research Building - 1st Floor - Room RS111 - Module 1&2 (below Jim's Office)

Monday May 17 (4:00-6:00 PM) - CAN DO Project/EarthKAM Meeting - Regional SMOC Planning -

MUSC Research Building - 1st Floor - Room RS111 - Module 1&2 (below Jim's Office)

Saturday June 12 (9:00-12:00 AM) - CAN DO Project/EarthKAM Meeting - Regional SMOC Planning -

MUSC Research Building - 1st Floor - Room RS111 - Module 1&2 (below Jim's Office)

Mission (STS-93) TENTATIVE -July 9 -  Shuttle Mission - Regional SMOC

Assessments weekly assignments (will require Internet Access) image annotation image analysis project attendance

Back to Coastal Change Main Page