GEOL485-25T2 (C) Term Two 2025

Special Topic

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 April 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 May 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 June 2025

Description

Special Topic

Our goal in the course is to demonstrate how ground penetrating radar (GPR) can aid in better understanding various geomorphic, geologic, engineering, and geoarchaeological environments. This interactive and hands-on course will have participants move through an understanding of the GPR research workflow, including theory, field data collections, data processing, in-class data interpretation exercises which will be collated from a variety field settings.  In addition, the fundamentals of communicating the scientific results will be covered.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 15:00 - 16:00 Ernest Rutherford 213 Geol Engineering Lab
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00 Ernest Rutherford 213 Geol Engineering Lab
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lab A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 11:30 Ernest Rutherford 213 Geol Engineering Lab
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

Kari Bassett

Lecturer

Harry Jol

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Final Exam 20%
Assignments/Labs 25%
Field Trip Reports 15%
Field Research Project & Presentation 40%


Coursework and Grading
This will be a block course encompassing term 2 in semester 1 so will need to have scheduled 2 lectures and one 2.5 hr lab.  That would equate to the contact hours for a typical full semester 400 level course.

Your grade in this course will be determined by your performance on assignments, labs, topical research project, field trip reports and exams.  The following table indicates how much the components of course will count toward your final grade:

Assignments/Labs                                     25 %
Field Trip Reports                                      15 %
Exam                                                       20 %
Field Research Project & Presentation            40 %
                                                Total:    100%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,213.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Earth and Environment .

All GEOL485 Occurrences

  • GEOL485-25T2 (C) Term Two 2025