Overview
Prepare a 10-minute presentation on the paper. Please include all figures and tables and discuss all aspects of the paper.
- You may use additional sources for pictures and further information if necessary.
- At the end of the presentation: One of the goals of our course is to learn how to read and evaluate scientific literature that uses radiogenic and stable isotopes. Each student will be responsible for presenting a paper, but everyone is expected to read and understand all papers. Your assignment is to:
- Assign a peer-reviewed scientific paper to each student.
Give a presentation about the paper, evaluated based on AGU standards for student presentations.
Lead a discussion on the paper to ensure everyone in the room learns as much as possible about it.
- Questions to address in your presentation and discussion:
- What is the scientific motivation of the paper (background)?
- What is the goal of the paper (what problem are they trying to solve)?
Why is this problem important?
What assumptions do they bring to this study?
- What methods do they use?
- What is clever about this paper?
- What doesn’t work?
- What are their conclusions?
- What are the remaining questions to be answered?
- What would you do to solve them