2020 and 2021 Higher Education teaching grant recipients
Below are the summaries of the 2020 and 2021 teaching resources awarded by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in the framework of the Higher Education Teaching Grants Programme:
River flood hazard modelling and management
(University of A Coruña, Spain)
This teaching package can be incorporated into higher education courses related to flood risk evaluation and management. The package includes 3 hands-on practices that can be proposed within a regular course to support students’ understanding of the theoretical contents delivered in lectures. The practices follow the typical workflow in flood hazard studies: estimation of design flood discharges, mapping of inundation hazard and definition of strategies to manage flood risk.
Contributors: Luis Cea, Jerónimo Puertas, María Bermúdez, Ernest Bladé, Marcos Sanz, Martí Sánchez-Juny
Hydraulic Groundwater Modelling using GIS
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
This teaching material provides a low-level introduction into hydraulic groundwater modelling. The course is designed for students not familiar with numerical modelling and with basic mathematical experience, covering the basics of numerical modelling and applying the content directly to the aim of the course: designing numerical hydraulic groundwater models.
Contributors: Thomas Heinze
Teaching unit - Learning about ozonec
(Universida de Vigo, Spain)
This teaching package provides the fundamentals of atmospheric ozone, its history and measurement. In addition, it develops a laboratory practice which can be easily replicated by students at different university levels.
Contributors: Juan A. Añel, Antonio Cid Samamed
INTEGRATE (INTEGRation of Atmospheric science, Technical and Empirical methods)
(University of Tübingen, Germany)
INTEGRATE is an open-access, open-source teaching package that covers the topics of physical climatology, empirical methods and a hands-on approach of collecting and analysing atmospheric data. It promotes an interdisciplinary and didactically multifaceted approach to learning about climatology, modern empirical methods and programming. It comprises a crash course in theory and a hands-on approach to collecting atmospheric data and working with readily available climatological records on real problems.
Contributors: Sebastian Gerhard Mutz, Willi Kappler, Solmaz Mohadjer, Lisa Rauschenbach, Daniel Boateng, Noam Poremba, Julia Hellmig, Gerhard Mutz
Project Design for Research and Community Projectsc
(Science Voices, Arizona State University, USA)
This teaching package in the form of a curriculum teaches students how to think through and design effective research and community projects. Students will learn how to interview stakeholders, design good science questions, select appropriate instrumentation, schedule and budget their project, conduct a risk analysis, and evaluate their final work.
Contributors: Lev Horodyskyj, Tara Lennon