Universität Wien

290090 VU Earth Surface Dynamics Lab (2023S)

10.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Sitzung am 10.3. findet im Konferenzraum der Geographie statt. (NIG, 5.Stock, C520)

  • Friday 10.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Ort in u:find Details
  • Friday 31.03. 09:00 - 18:00 Friedrich Becke Seminarraum 2C315 3.OG UZA II
  • Monday 17.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Monday 08.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Monday 15.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Monday 22.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Monday 05.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Monday 12.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Monday 19.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528
  • Monday 26.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum Geographie NIG 5.OG C0528

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this course you will deeply dive into landslide research. Just like in a holistic master thesis, students will work in groups through all necessary steps to landslide research, from developing a research question, to carry out field work with different equipment (drilling rig, drone flights, ERT, etc.) and to analyse the generated data, to finally interprete and make sense of the results. As we will also extract sediment cores, there is also the possibility to do lab work and analyse the retrieved soil samples.

We will go together in the field from the 27.3.-30.3.2023 to our study site in Brandstatt in Lower Austria (find more information to the project and the study site here https://esurflab.at/standorte/) and will stay in the 'Mostlandhof' where you will have own group appartments with a kitchen. On the 30.3. we will go back to Vienna and at the 31.3.2023 we will meet up for a heads up concerning which data you collected and how to visualize and manage them.

Further in the course we will guide you through processesing the different data sets and work with different landslide modelling approaches.

The costs of the field work will communicated during the first meeting.

Assessment and permitted materials

- active participation 10%
- final presentation 30%
- data preparation and analysis 10%
- scientific paper/report 50%

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The grade is based on allocation of points. The maximum attainable points are 100 points.

For positive evaluation the following minimum requirements must be fulfilled.
- constant attendance
- scientific paper/report
- a minimum of 50 points in total

Grading system:
>=88 points: very good
75-87 points: good
63-74 points: satisfactory
50-62 points: adequate
< 50 points: unsatisfactoryy

Examination topics

For positive evaluation the following minimum requirements must be fulfilled.
- constant attendance
- presentation held and handouts printed for everyone
- final report
- a minimum of 55 points in total

The details will be announced in the introductory meeting.

Reading list

The details will be announced in the introductory meeting.

Association in the course directory

(MG-S2-PI.m) (MG-W2-PI.m) (MG21 APF SURFSPEC)

Last modified: Th 11.05.2023 11:28