This month, I've been working with high school students in a summer geoscience institute here at Rutgers University. The course covers a variety of topics from rocks and minerals to pollution to energy and jobs. On several days during the course, we had the opportunity to use environmental geophysics instruments to expose the students to this exciting geoscience subdiscipline.
Seismic data acquisition is always a big hit! Students enjoy pounding the ground with a hammer acting as a seismic source for our SmartSeis instrument. 
Here we investigate acoustic wave propagation and explore seismic refraction and reflection concepts. Students have the opportunity to examine simple seismic records and learn about how material velocity is important to interpretation. 
On a field trip to Harriman State Park, NY, students used a magnetometer to explore for anomalies below a parking lot.
Here, Kisa Mwakanyamale (center, gray shirt) explains ground-penetrating radar data interpretation. In this "geophysical piñata" exercise, students hunted for buried candy using a Malå 500 MHz instrument.
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