ENGINEERING 100W HOMEWORK 3 Dr Thalia Anagnos Objectives of Assignment Narrow a broad topic down to a more specific topic that is manageable to study Perfect your use of keywords to find information about a topic Find two resources on a particular research project one of which much be from a scholarly source Due Date Monday February 12 information will be used in lab writing assignment Assignment 1 Select a general topic related to research in Antarctica that is of interest to you Examples of research in Antarctica are listed at the end of this assignment The list is not complete it is just to give you some ideas 2 Do a little Internet research to identify two or three benefits or outcomes that could result from this research List them in Table 1 on the back of this assignment 3 As you do this start to compile a list of keywords in Table 2 4 Select one of the above outcomes benefits and identify two or three studies that are going on in Antarctica whose results will contribute to that outcome List these in Table 3 5 Select one of the research projects and find at least two resources that discuss this project a Document your database search process and the resources in Tables 4 and 5 b At least one of the resources must be a scholarly source 6 Read the resources over the weekend and bring them to lab on Monday February 12 as they will be used as background for your in class essay Research in Antarctica Long term ecological research LTER such as vegetative change rainfall manipulation desertification Remote sensing very low frequency VLF waves aerial photos satellite imagery sensors unmanned aircraft and balloons etc Impact of magnetic storms on radio and satellite transmission CO2 and other atmospheric gases that affect the ozone layer Changing magnetic field of the Earth Sea level rise and glacial melting Cosmic microwave radiation and the origin of the universe Volcanic activity at Mt Erebus Conservation and fisheries management Polar medicine and its possible impact on space medicine Impacts of humans on penguin populations Clean renewable energy sources Biodiversity and resilience of natural systems to environmental change Page 1 ENGINEERING 100W HOMEWORK 3 Dr Thalia Anagnos Table 1 Example not related to Antarctica research Topic Monitoring of earthquake fault movement Outcome Benefit 1 Outcome Benefit 2 earthquake prediction or Understand physics of forecasting earthquake generation Outcome Benefit 3 Short term warning systems Table 2 Keywords Example prediction or forecast San Andreas fault monitoring Parkfield earthquake or tremor SAFOD detector or sensor geophysical observation Table 3 Studies Example Outcome Long term earthquake prediction Project Study 1 Project Study 2 San Andreas Fault Observation Creep measurements on at Depth SAFOD Hayward fault Project Study 3 Underwater sensing Table 4 Search Log Example Database General Science Full Text Database Search keywords hits earthquake prediction and San Andreas 94 earthquake prediction and SAFOD 2 Table 5 List of Resources Example 1 Cohen P 2005 Journey to the centre of a quake New Scientist 185 42 5 2 USGS web site on SAFOD project http earthquake usgs gov research parkfield safod pbo php 3 Bakun et al 2005 Implications for prediction and hazard assessment from the 2004 Parkfield earthquake Nature 437 969 974 Page 2 ENGINEERING 100W HOMEWORK 3 Dr Thalia Anagnos Name Table 1 Main Topic and outcomes Student to Complete Topic Outcome Benefit 1 Outcome Benefit 2 Outcome Benefit 3 Table 2 Keywords Table 3 Studies Outcome Project Study 1 Project Study 2 Project Study 3 Table 4 List of Resources 1 2 Table 5 List of Resources 1 2 3 Page 3
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