Making undergraduate geoscience quantitative

Eos

Volumn 89, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 149-150

  Manduca, Cathryn A ^a   Baer, Eric ^b   Hancock, Greg ^c   Macdonald, R Heather ^c   Patterson, Sam ^d   Savina, Mary ^d   Wenner, Jennifer ^e  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Highline Community College   (United States)

^c The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^d Carleton College

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STUDENT; TEACHING;

EID: 43849089575     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008EO160001     Document Type: Article

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