Posted in How to..., Online learning, Podcast, tagged Podcast on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am developing a set of podcasts for introductory physical geography. These are mostly aimed at procedures used in an introductory physical geography lab courses. They are free to download and use.
Podcasts currently available:
Calculating Noon Sun Angle
Map Scale
Topographic Profiles
View them at my site or download free from the iTunes store
Posted in How to..., Soil Moisture Budgets, Unit 3 on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m often asked for help in calculating soil moisture storage. Examine the soil moisture budget for Vancouver, Washington below while listening to the audio file.
Listen to the explanation by clicking on the player button below.
Posted in How to... on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Need some help with a difficult concept from lab like adiabatic lapse rates or constructing a topographic profile?
Click on the “How to…” category in the tag cloud to the right for a listing of topics.
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Posted in Hillslope Shape, How to..., Landforms, Unit 4 on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lab manual exercise 19 “Drainage Basin Analysis” discusses the influence of hill slope shape on overland flow and erosion. Use this animation to help understand these concepts.
Posted in How to..., Landforms, Maps and Mapping, Study Aids, Unit 4 on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lab manual exercise 17 “Introduction to Topographic Maps” requires the construction of topographic profiles and the use of vertical exaggeration. Use this animation to help understand how to complete these questions.
Posted in How to..., Maps and Mapping, Study Aids, Unit 4 on November 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Reading topographic maps is a skill applied in unit 4 of the course. In addition to the material in your lab manuals, see this previous blog posting for topographic map reading resources.
Posted in How to..., Lapse Rates, Study Aids, Unit 2 on October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Constructing the adiabatic graphs in Exercise 6 seems to be the hardest part of the lab for most students. Take a few minutes to look over what you are expected to do. You will first plot the environmental lapse rate data on the [...]
Posted in How to..., Lapse Rates, Study Aids, Unit 2 on October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Lab manual exercise 6 explored the impact of adiabatic temperature change on the stability of the air. As a refresher, here is the explanation for finding the condensation level and drawing an adiabatic graph. Realize that in this exercise the effect of the dew point lapse rate is not taken into account and thus is [...]
Posted in How to..., Study Aids, Unit 2 on October 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The saturation curve is used to help answer several questions in labs 5 and 6. As a reminder:
Determining the saturation point for a given air temperature:
If you know the temperature of the air, find its value on [...]
Posted in How to..., Study Aids on September 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This article from WikiHow has some very good ideas on how to take good lectures notes.
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