Week 1 – Welcome
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This Week in Dinos
Getting Started in this Course
Meeting Times: We will meet 3 times each week. Mondays will be lecture and discussion-based investigations. Wednesdays will be short hands-on experiments. On Friday’s we will sum up our findings and come to a consensus as a class as to what we think for the given week. In this class, you should expect to do a little reading outside of class and share your findings or opinions with your classmates.
Meeting Location: Classroom Building 213 (CLBN 213)
The course syllabus can be found here. We will be going over this document in class on the first day. We will also be completing some initial assessments and going over the materials needed for this course.
Materials Needed: Each week this page will be updated to include all of the materials you will need to succeed. There are no textbooks or purchasing requirements for this class. The majority of the material will be delivered, turned in, and graded on Canvas. I ask that you please check our homepage regularly.
Online Assignments and digitally delivered items on Canvas include:
- Pre-Weekly Quizzes- designated with a #a. Available every Friday (the week before) until 11:45 am Monday.
- Post-Week Quizzes- designated with a #b. Available every Friday (the week of). Due on Saturdays at midnight.
- Hands-on Activity- Usually Wednesdays of each week.
- Additional Assignments- such as notes with gaps and study guides.
- Reading Materials
- Lectures PPTs
Weekly pages will be updated throughout the course, but should you need it you will be able to navigate through the pages in a section at the bottom of the page.
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Announcements
- There will be a 1 Credit Hour Field Trip in April of 2020 which all students in this course may go on. An informational meeting will be held Friday, January 17th at 3:30 pm in NRC 001. We are petitioning for this to have the N credit!
Dr. Ashley Burkett
Assistant Professor of Geology
Hello all! I am excited to have you in this class! This will be the first face-to-face offering of the course. I appreciate all feedback from content and delivery to typos and broken links. Please feel free to contact me via email, Canvas, phone, or office hours! I would love to hear from you.
A Little About Me
I am a paleontologist specializing in single-celled invertebrates, that make a shell about the size of a grain of sand, called foraminifera. These organisms are still around in modern oceans today and have existed since the first hard parts appeared in the fossil record about 500million years ago. They also were around and experienced some major changes in their shell morphologies while dinosaurs were roaming the earth! Because I study these marine organisms I get to go to sea once or twice a year to collect samples. I love being at sea and am very passionate about foraminifera!
This is my second year as a faculty member in the Boone Pickens School of Geology. In addition to this course, I teach GEOL 1224: Evolution of the Earth, and GEOL 3103: Paleontology
