Many large earthquakes have rattle Japan this morning.
The list below is from USGS, showing earthquakes in the world having a magnitude greater than M 5.0. As can bee seen, Japan has experienced many, 16, such between 5:46 UTC and 7:42.
Associated is the risk, and realization of tsunami (up to 10 m high).
This project is about acquiring better data and information about basal sliding, focusing on Brúarjökul, Iceland.
Especially we will try to estimate the temporal and spatial change in basal sliding, by installing a number of GPS instruments on the glacier.
Landsvirkjun is our sponsor – and we thank them sincerely.
I say new because this is new to me, and also the students, and I haven’t seen this elsewhere. That does though not necessarily mean that I think no one has ever done this before.
This method is about letting the students post recent news about the topic of the course, for example glaciology and water science, on a web page.
Each student posts a news item about twice a semester. They write a short summary of the main points of the news item, and some related background.
They then introduce, explain, the news to the class.
This has proved to be lots of fun, the students are more interested in the topic and are pretty good in finding interesting news related to the class topics.
Examples from the water science class are here and from the glaciology class are here.
