Teaching fellow Jennifer Lindline (center)helps students visualize geologic structres at field camp in Montana

• help with library research
  • Internet resources for Geoscientists
  • How to use GEOREF for bibliographic searches
  • Short cut to GEOREF (sometimes slow, be patient!)
  • Short cut to Tripod, the Tri-College Library Catalog
  • Doing research on the Web? Here are some guidelines for evaluating internet information.
• help with writing
  • Hints for writing scientific papers
  • Suggestions on organization and style for scientific papers
  • Formatting guidelines for bibliographies in geoscience papers
  • Some more guidelines for citing electronic sources, such as web pages
  • An excelent reference book on writing in geology
• help with quantitative problem solving
  • Problem solving tips from a Chemistry Prof, useful to anyone.
  • Common units of measurement and abbreviations
  • Unit conversions
  • Exponents, powers of ten, orders of magnitude
  • Logarithms and e
  • Algebra and trigonometry review, from NASA
  • The Greek alphabet
  • Uncertainty, error and precision in quantitative measurements
  • Plotting a graph with Excel: an example
    includes:plotting points, adding error bars, fitting a line
• help using computers in the geology computer lab
  • How to transfer files from one Mac to another (important if you need to use a floppy disk)
  • How to print to the Geology Roll Plotter from a Mac
  • How to hook up the ZipCD Writer to computers in the Geo computer lab.
  • Documentation for Macintosh applications (from the comptuer center)
    includes:Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Eudora, Telnet, Fetch, the Chooser, and more...
  • Documentation for PC applications (from the computer center)
    includes:Word, Excel, PowerPoint, QVTTerm, FTP, Terminal, and more...
  • How to join the geology and environmental studies e-mail lists.