Revised November 14, 2024

Applied Ethics Resources for Geoscience Students and Professionals

An unsorted list of videos related to professional ethics for geoscientists

Preface — The videos listed below display a range of approaches, content choices, and production styles. It is not easy to create a useful video resource on this topic, and I presume each of these videos was produced in good faith by people who were hoping to make a positive contribution. They constitute a set of short accounts (from a few minutes long to a 2-hour webinar with 8 separate presentations) that can augment a more structured presentation of professional ethics in textbooks such as Andrews et al. (2018), Zhu et al. (2022) and its earlier edition by Martin and Schinzinger (2005), and the compilation edited by Gunderson (2018). Visit CroninProjects.org/Geoethics/BasicResources.html for the full references.

Ethics Explained videos from The Ethics Centre ethics.org.au, including the video core of the Ethics Unboxed free online course

1. What is Ethics? In 30 Seconds — youtu.be/y3jUA43nw-0?list=PLaj9znEkdfe3t_Yma-WcHYKwp0fY11-oV — duration: 35 sec
2. What is Ethics? — youtu.be/u399XmkjeXo?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 4 min 55 sec
3. Ethical Decision Making — youtu.be/n0uwTBrgqxI?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 3 min 30 sec
4. Purpose, Values, Principles - An Ethics Framework — youtu.be/KLvWMoFUboo?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 3 min 44 sec
5. Virtue Ethics — youtu.be/qs9QiczZvdU?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 3 min 19 sec
6. Deontology — youtu.be/WoHJhwh4mVQ?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 3 min 10 sec
7. Consequentialism — youtu.be/xJqO4nhmZWc?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 4 min 03 sec
8. What is the difference between Ethics, Morality, and the Law? — youtu.be/Xki2fRA0bY8?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 5 min 14 sec
9. Moral Intuition & Ethical Judgement — youtu.be/BbuI3U2Wx0o?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 3 min 26 sec
10. How to have Moral Courage & Moral Imagination — youtu.be/NW69KdnmRmY?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 3 min 48 sec
11. What is Unconscious Bias? — youtu.be/zJh20Wi2dMg?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 2 min 37 sec
12. What is Moral Injury? — youtu.be/5_Wdoz9X5lw?list=PLaj9znEkdfe0bT82Z0DZ3_R1tgKgIo7Tu — duration: 2 min 22 sec
13. Ethics Framework - for Organizations — youtu.be/ImsN0NN1CmM?list=PLaj9znEkdfe3t_Yma-WcHYKwp0fY11-oV — duration: 1 min 20 sec

Ethical Issues and Licensing – The ASBOG Perspective (John Williams) — https://youtu.be/_c_xNk9uGIc — duration: 14 min 19 sec

Texas Board of Professional Geologists ethics videos — tbpg.state.tx.us/tbpg-ethics-video

• 2019 Ethics for TBPG — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e21mwekI7Y — duration: 39 min 53 sec
• 2020 Ethics for TBPG — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MlJkEYJDt4 — duration: 46 min 36 sec
• 2022 Ethics for TBPG — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKF-6rCakPQ — duration: 1 hr 3 min 36 sec
• Ethics for Geoscientists (Chris Mathewson) — youtu.be/8_ost_4_5Es — duration: 37 min 56 sec

Louisianna Board of Professional Geologists ethics videos

• Ethics for Geoscientists 2020 — https://youtu.be/W3PsfoszIzY — duration: 1 hr 00 min 14 sec
• Ethics for Geoscientists and Engineers: The Ethics Experience 2022 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWqq_UVaaWQ — duration: 55 min 27 sec
• Ethics for Geoscientists and Engineers 2023 — https://lbopg.org/resource-lib/2023-ethics-video — duration: 46 min 41 sec

Geoscience Online Learning Initiative, AGI, AIPG Ethics videos — https://learning.americangeosciences.org/courses?search_query=ethics

• Fundamentals of Professional Ethics: Elements and Examples — learning.americangeosciences.org/courses/course-v1:AIPG+AIPG002+2024/about
• The Development of Geoscience-Related Ethics Codes — https://learning.americangeosciences.org/courses/course-v1:AIPG+AIPG007+2024/about
• Professionalism and Geoethics: Creating a Workplace Environment WhereEveryone Can Succeed — https://learning.americangeosciences.org/courses/course-v1:AIPG+AIPG009+2024/about
• Geoethics in the Field: Integrating Ethical Principles into Geoscience Fieldwork Practices — https://learning.americangeosciences.org/courses/course-v1:AIPG+AIPG010+2024/about

AAPG Division of Professional Affairs ethics videos

• Dilemmas in Trust — youtu.be/qLscNpgFFDM
• The Ethics Storybooks with Tales from the Oil Patch — https://youtu.be/ieEI4tzPINw

Ethics for Geologists, by Scott Tinker — https://www.beg.utexas.edu/presentations/videos/tinker-ethics-711

IAPG Short Course on Geoethics videos — https://www.geoethics.org/geoethics-school

• Theoretical foundations of Geoethics (Silvia Peppoloni) — https://youtu.be/Rz5yHyHjzEw – duration: 7 min 50 sec
• Responsible conduct of research and professionalism (Dave Mogk) — https://youtu.be/RZmUEyR_Ri8 – duration: 6 min 20 sec
• Education for confronting (geo)ethical dilemmas (Eduardo Marone) — https://youtu.be/r5NlHyrjZX4 – duration: 3 min 53 sec
• Geoethics and responsible mining (Nic Bilham) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-EuWOE-CGs – duration: 5 min 51 sec
• Geoethics in natural hazards from the perspective of an engineering geologist (Vince Cronin) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhyXb6WxyOw – duration: 5 min 33 sec
• Geoethics case studies: Paleontology and Geoheritage (Daniel DeMiguel) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3tkjPKqt0 – duration: 6 min 19 sec
• Geoethics case studies: Effects of the EU directive on conflict minerals (Vitor Correia) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16K0cG7c-h8 – duration: 8 min 00 sec

Early Career Scientists Team of the IAPG, webinar on Geoethics (2020) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-qgAJPAAQ – duration: 1 hr 54 min 24 sec

Recordings of the symposium "Climate Change Ethics: Where Are We?" held March 26-26, 2022 and hosted by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology. The 8-video playlist is available on YouTube via https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQFndeOn8y121FO9JlhVCvmUV9P8s7BYg

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