1. Major changes to my class:
Portfolio due at end of semester
Download and prep all the data
Letters to Uncle Don (my granddad) and workflows weekly
Activities are all focused around geology
In the computer lab for all classes
Course goals focused around problem solving with GIS
Some new labs we are doing:
Two based on replicating analysis in a paper they read
Hurricanes (Scott White’s lab on SERC + hurricane frequency by county)
River changes due to dam (Will Ouimet’s activity on SERC)
Drainage density in Hawai’i (Nicole Gasparini’s activity on SERC)
Some things I am keeping the same:
Community-based learning final projects
No lectures
Map peer reviews and revisions based on Edward Tufte readings

2. New activity I designed: Read a paper and replicate the analysis in it
Haven’t done this yet; both will be completed after spring break.
Will do for two papers: Henck et al and Kasprak et al. 2011
Homework: Read paper and prep datasets (evaluation: completion credit)
In class and homework (total time: 3x80 min blocks, 1x2 hr 20 min block):
Discuss papers and create a workflow for analysis
Replicate the analysis
Produce figures showing how they replicated the analysis
Write a short report to accompany the figures explaining the results
Evaluation: Quality of figures and report (graded with a rubric out of 20 points)