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Fieldwork is really fundamental to the environmental and Earth sciences and so in this session we’ll talk about some of the brilliant opportunities that OU students have to do fieldwork. Environm...ental and Earth science students can take part in short, intensive, residential field schools at one of several field centres around the country and can join the many day trips organised by tutors where they get to practice some key field skills. But not everyone can get into the field so we’ll introduce other ways that we’ve developed to get students doing fieldwork, such as using live, interactive broadcasts we call ‘fieldcasts’ where students direct the lecturers to carry out a field investigation. And we’ll also talk about other technology we use to bring field data collection to students, like a tree we’ve got wired into the internet and the OU’s pioneering citizen science work with Treezilla: the Monster Map of Trees.
Fieldwork is really fundamental to the environmental and Earth sciences and so in this session we’ll talk about some of the brilliant opportunities that OU students have to do fieldwork. Environm...ental and Earth science students can take part in short, intensive, residential field schools at one of several field centres around the country and can join the many day trips organised by tutors where they get to practice some key field skills. But not everyone can get into the field so we’ll introduce other ways that we’ve developed to get students doing fieldwork, such as using live, interactive broadcasts we call ‘fieldcasts’ where students direct the lecturers to carry out a field investigation. And we’ll also talk about other technology we use to bring field data collection to students, like a tree we’ve got wired into the internet and the OU’s pioneering citizen science work with Treezilla: the Monster Map of Trees.
| Series: | STEM Showcase Event; Series 2018 |
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| Episode | 5 |
| Recording date: | 05-07-2018 |
| Published: | 2018 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:21:10 |
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| Presenter: | Karen Foley |
| Contributors: | Philip Wheeler; Eleni Wood |
| Publisher: | The Open University |
| Link to related site: | Internal url: http://studenthublive.open.ac.uk/abstract/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences?event=STEM%20Showcase%20Student%20Hub%20Live%20%28SHL%29%20Event%20%E2%80%93%20Thursday%205%20July%20%4010.00%20%E2%80%93%2017.00 |
| Production number: | SHL00333 |
| Available to public: | yes |
