Research methods in Earth Sciences 7404-RMiES
The understanding of Earth processes and environments over geological time is possible through an application of the comprehensive research methods. This latter has been growing or developing for the last decades and their combination currently leads to answering the key research questions.
This lecture provides a knowledge of several research methods in Earth sciences from field techniques, sediment-wise study and chronological determination to papers understanding and papers writing challenge.
Main topics are:
1. Earth sciences: research objectives from the oldest Earth’s rocks to the Anthropocene.
2. What to obtain from the surrounding landscape? Classic and modern field techniques.
3. Getting deeper into a sediment: from macro- to microscale.
4. How old is it? A never-ending question on sediment age: clastic deposition.
5. How old is it? A never-ending question on sediment age: organic deposition.
6. Multi-proxy study as a today’s must.
7. Reading Earth Sciences papers: what did the authors mean?
8. How to start and not give up? Scientific writing challenge.
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Assessment criteria
Student prepares a presentation of its own research methods and gives a 10-15-min. talk followed by a class discussion.
The final grade consists of three components: (1) presentation (20%); (2) oral speech (60%), and (3) q&a/discussion.
Assessment criteria:
fail: 0-51%
satisfactory: 52-65%
satisfactory plus: 66-75%
good: 76-89%
good plus: 90-94%
very good: 95-100%
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