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dc.contributor.authorSenger, Kim
dc.contributor.authorBetlem, Peter
dc.contributor.authorGrundvåg, Sten-Andreas
dc.contributor.authorHorota, Rafael Kenji
dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Simon John
dc.contributor.authorSmyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorJochmann, Malte Michel
dc.contributor.authorBirchall, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorJanocha, Julian
dc.contributor.authorOgata, Kei
dc.contributor.authorKuckero, Lilith
dc.contributor.authorJohannessen, Rakul Maria
dc.contributor.authorLecomte, Isabelle Christine
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Sarah M.
dc.contributor.authorOlaussen, Snorre
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-25T21:11:38Z
dc.date.available2021-10-25T21:11:38Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-28
dc.description.abstract<p>The Covid-19 pandemic occurred at a time of major revolution in the geosciences – the era of digital geology. Digital outcrop models (DOMs) acquired from consumer drones, processed using user-friendly photogrammetric software and shared with the wider audience through online platforms are a cornerstone of this digital geological revolution. Integration of DOMs with other geoscientific data, such as geological maps, satellite imagery, terrain models, geophysical data and field observations, strengthens their application in both research and education. Teaching geology with digital tools advances students' learning experience by providing access to high-quality outcrops, enhancing visualization of 3D geological structures and improving data integration. Similarly, active use of DOMs to integrate new field observations will facilitate more effective fieldwork and quantitative research. From a student's perspective, georeferenced and scaled DOMs allow for an improved appreciation of scale and of 3D architecture, which is a major threshold concept in geoscientific education. <p>DOMs allow us to bring geoscientists to the outcrops digitally, which is particularly important in view of the Covid-19 pandemic that restricts travel and thus direct access to outcrops. At the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), located at 78&#176; N in Longyearbyen in Arctic Norway, DOMs are actively used even in non-pandemic years, as the summer field season is short and not overlapping with the Bachelor “Arctic Geology” course package held from January to June each year. In 2017, we at UNIS developed a new course (AG222 “Integrated Geological Methods: From Outcrop To Geomodel”) to encourage the use of emerging techniques like DOMs and data integration to solve authentic geoscientific challenges. In parallel, we have established the open-access Svalbox geoscientific portal, which forms the backbone of the AG222 course activities and provides easy access to a growing number of DOMs, 360∘ imagery, subsurface data and published geoscientific data from Svalbard. Considering the rapid onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Svalbox portal and the pre-Covid work on digital techniques in AG222 allowed us to rapidly adapt and fulfil at least some of the students' learning objectives during the pandemic. In this contribution, we provide an overview of the course development and share experiences from running the AG222 course and the Svalbox platform, both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSenger K, Betlem P, Grundvåg S.-A., Horota, Buckley SJ, Smyrak-Sikora AA, Jochmann MMJ, Birchall T, Janocha J, Ogata K, Kuckero, Johannessen, Lecomte I., Cohen SM, Olaussen S. Teaching with digital geology in the high Arctic: opportunities and challenges. Geoscience Communication. 2021;4(3):399-420en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1943136
dc.identifier.doi10.5194/gc-4-399-2021
dc.identifier.issn2569-7102
dc.identifier.issn2569-7110
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/22819
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherEuropean Geosciences Unionen_US
dc.relation.journalGeoscience Communication
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/PETROSENTR/228107/Norway/Research Centre for Arctic Petroleum Exploration/ARCEx/en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450en_US
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dc.titleTeaching with digital geology in the high Arctic: opportunities and challengesen_US
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dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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