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Placed-Based Learning. Scott Bair Earth Sciences Ohio State University escottbair.osu@gmail.com. Placed-Based Learning. Local field trips: campus, walk, bus Students’ research sites/areas: share problem, field design, data Regional events: injection-caused earthquake, landslides, fires
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Placed-Based Learning Scott Bair Earth Sciences Ohio State University escottbair.osu@gmail.com
Placed-Based Learning • Local field trips: campus, walk, bus • Students’ research sites/areas: share problem, field design, data • Regional events: injection-causedearthquake, landslides, fires • Book / movie: where is the science wrong, where is it correct “A Civil Action” mock trial
1. Expand Seating: Below Water Table What possibly could go wrong?
1. The Stadium Aquifer glacial outwash 40 – 100 feet thick
Cutoff wall 720 ft Olentangy River AA deck seats Grass and turf system Static water level ±714 ft Synthetic impermeable liner Gravel layer with drains Drains 707 ft Groundwater Sand & gravel Limestone bedrock Groundwater Groundwater 1. Revised Design (+ $130,000,000) Overpressurization causing uplift failure?
Cutoff wall 720 ft Olentangy River AA deck seats Grass and turf system Static water level ±714 ft Synthetic impermeable liner Gravel layer with drains Drains 707 ft Groundwater Sand & gravel Limestone bedrock Groundwater Groundwater 1. The Making of a Water Bed (confined aquifer)
2. Going GREEN with Construction of a $170M Geothermal HVAC System $4,500,000 to construct 480 geothermal wells to a depth of 550 feet; 50 miles of drilling
Something happening here, What it is ain’t exactly clear… PALEOKARST
Science in the Courtroom Undergraduate Education http://serc.carleton.edu/woburn
Science in the Courtroom http://serc.carleton.edu/woburn