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This book was written with the support of a grant offered by Utah State University Libraries, Academic & Instructional Services, and the College of Science to support faculty and instructors at Utah State University Statewide Campuses to create Open Educational Resources to support their online courses in the United States of America. These grants are made to reduce barriers to student success as well as to encourage faculty and instructors to try new, high-quality, and lower-cost ways to
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deliver learning materials to students through Open Educational Resources.
The majority of the first edition of the textbook was written between 2019 and 2020 with the intention that the textbook would be offered free of charge to all participants in GEO 1360 Planet Earth, an online course offered at Utah State University. This textbook is offered for any faculty, instructor, or teacher to adopt for their own courses they teach, and it is distributed under a Creative Commons License. If you notice any errors or mistakes, please contact the author.
Benjamin J. Burger is a geologist who earned his masters of science degree in 1999 at Stony Brook University in New York and his Doctorate in 2009 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and he spent five years working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He has also worked as a professional geologist in the states of Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. He joined the Utah State University faculty in 2011 and continues to teach and conduct research as an Associate Professor in the Department of Geoscience at the Uintah Basin – Vernal Campus of Utah State University located in northeastern corner of Utah. Many of his course lectures and educational content can be found on YouTube or on his website at www.benjamin-burger.org
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Planet Earth. (2022, August 10). Wikibooks, The Free Textbook Project.
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