Those interested in this class should
contact their local EHaz coordinator!
This class is planned for Spring Semester 2008. It is a prelude to
a field trip in May - June 2008 to the
Mexican Volcanic Belt. The course is
aimed to find an advanced view of
volcanism at Convergent Plate
Boundaries. There will be invited
speakers to cover a broad view of
advanced research at convergent plate
boundary volcanoes.
The
EHaz universities (Michigan
Tech, Buffalo, McGill, Simon-Fraser, UNAM
and Colima) will be the main
participants, but lectures will come
from many other sources. There will be
guest lectures every week delivered via
PowerPoint files with narration or
notes. The speaker will join the web
discussions on Wednesday pm, to allow
for questions and discussion. Each
student will receive the PowerPoint
lectures before the discussion, and
review them at their own convenience.
The PowerPoint will be online for the
discussion to allow referring to figure
material. The software used for
teleconference discussions is
Marratech,
and Michigan Tech has arranged for a web
home connection for our class. Marratech
can be accessed from any computer linked
to the web and is designed for
discussions online.
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