Teaching Seismology from Elementary School to Graduate School with Live Data, Music, Sonified Seismograms, and Comparisons
Andy Michael
USGS
- Date & Time
- Location
- Online-only seminar via Microsoft Teams
- Host
- Ruth Harris
- Summary
People (even some seismologists) spend a lot more time listening to music than they do looking at waveforms. And, the human ear is an amazing tool for analyzing sound waves. It is easily able to hear the contributions of individual instruments to a song. This makes sound and music a natural tool to explain how seismologists study earthquakes, the structure of the earth, and what people experience during earthquakes (which includes hearing them!). During this seminar, I will explain how I have used sound and music, with live demonstrations, when teaching seismology in settings ranging from kindergarten to public lectures and even graduate school.