ENVS1040 - Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding
Term
2024C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
ENVS
Section number only
001
Section ID
ENVS1040001
Course number integer
1040
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Simon J Richter
Description
As a result of climate change, the world that will take shape in the course of this century will be decidedly more inundated with water than we're accustomed to. The polar ice caps are melting, glaciers are retreating, ocean levels are rising, polar bear habitat is disappearing, countries are jockeying for control over a new Arctic passage, while low-lying cities and small island nations are confronting the possibility of their own demise. Catastrophic flooding events are increasing in frequency, as are extreme droughts. Hurricane-related storm surges,tsunamis, and raging rivers have devastated regions on a local and global scale. In this seminar we will turn to the narratives and images that the human imagination has produced in response to the experience of overwhelming watery invasion, from Noah to New Orleans. Objects of analysis will include mythology, ancient and early modern diluvialism, literature, art, film, and commemorative practice. The basic question we'll be asking is: What can we learn from the humanities that will be helpful for confronting the problems and challenges caused by climate change and sea level rise?
Course number only
1040
Cross listings
CIMS1130001, COML1130001, GRMN1130001
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
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No

EESC4997 - Senior Thesis

Status
A
Activity
SRT
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Senior Thesis
Term
2024C
Subject area
EESC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EESC4997401
Course number integer
4997
Meeting times
MW 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Jane E Dmochowski
Description
The culmination of the Earth Science major. Students, while working with an advisor in their concentration, conduct research and write a thesis.
Course number only
4997
Cross listings
ENVS4997401
Use local description
No

ENVS4997 - Senior Thesis

Status
A
Activity
SRT
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Senior Thesis
Term
2024C
Subject area
ENVS
Section number only
401
Section ID
ENVS4997401
Course number integer
4997
Meeting times
MW 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Jane E Dmochowski
Description
The culmination of the Environmental Studies major. Students, while working with an advisor in their concentration, conduct research and write a thesis.
Course number only
4997
Cross listings
EESC4997401
Use local description
No

EESC7991 - Topics in Earth Science

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Topics in Earth Science
Term
2024C
Subject area
EESC
Section number only
301
Section ID
EESC7991301
Course number integer
7991
Meeting times
R 5:15 PM-8:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Joseph S Francisco
Description
This course will use the weekly EES seminar series to survey historic breakthrogh papers or topics in the earth sciences, as well as modern papers - written by the seminar speakers - that often put the classics in perspective. Graduate students (Ph.D. only) in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science will engage in the material through reading, presentation, and discussion. The course has several goals. (1.) To engender an understanding and appreciation of major breakthroughs in our field. (2.) To develop skills in presenting and discussing scientific results. And (3.) to refine students' understanding of what constitutes great science.
Course number only
7991
Use local description
No

EESC6840 - Engineering Geology: Rock Mechanics

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
690
Title (text only)
Engineering Geology: Rock Mechanics
Term
2024C
Subject area
EESC
Section number only
690
Section ID
EESC6840690
Course number integer
6840
Level
graduate
Description
This course focuses on the rock mechanics aspects of Engineering Geology. The theme is characterization of the geologic environment for engineering and environmental investigations. Covered are the various exploration tools and methods, including: Collection and analysis of existing engineering data; Interpretation of remotely sensed imagery; Field and laboratory measurements of material properties; Measurement and characterization of rock discontinuities; Rock slope stability analysis; Stress, strain and failure of rocks and the importance of scale; Rock core logging; Rock mass rating; Rock support and reinforcement; Rock excavation, blasting and blast monitoring and control.
Course number only
6840
Use local description
No

EESC6810 - Applied and Environmental Geophysics

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
690
Title (text only)
Applied and Environmental Geophysics
Term
2024C
Subject area
EESC
Section number only
690
Section ID
EESC6810690
Course number integer
6810
Level
graduate
Instructors
J. Anthony Sauder
Description
The application of geophysical investigation techniques to problems of the local and shallow subsurface structure of the earth. The application of geophysical measurements and interpretation for environmental site characterizations, locating buried structures, groundwater investigations, and identifying geotechnical hazards with emphasis on gravity methods, seismic refraction and reflection, electrical resistivity, electromagnetic methods, ground penetrating radar, and borehole nuclear logging.
Course number only
6810
Use local description
No

EESC6800 - Advanced Geophysics

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Advanced Geophysics
Term
2024C
Subject area
EESC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EESC6800401
Course number integer
6800
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
David Goldsby
Description
This course will cover the application of geophysical investigation techniques to problems of the earth's plantary structure, local subsurface structure and mineral prospecting. The topics will include principles of geophysical measurements and interpretation with emphasis on gravity measurement, isostasy, geomagnitism, sesmic refraction and reflection,electrical prospecting, electromagnetics and groung radar.
Course number only
6800
Cross listings
EESC4800401
Use local description
No

EESC6770 - Geocomputations

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
690
Title (text only)
Geocomputations
Term
2024C
Subject area
EESC
Section number only
690
Section ID
EESC6770690
Course number integer
6770
Level
graduate
Instructors
Carl Mastropaolo
Description
Review and applications of selected methods from differential equations, advanced engineering mathematics and geostatistics to problems encountered in geology, engineering geology, geophysics and hydrology.
Course number only
6770
Use local description
No

EESC6700 - Advanced Remote Sensing

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Advanced Remote Sensing
Term
2024C
Subject area
EESC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EESC6700401
Course number integer
6700
Meeting times
TR 8:30 AM-9:59 AM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Jane E Dmochowski
Description
This course will introduce students to the principles of remote sensing, characteristics of remote sensors, and remote sensing applications. Image acquisition, data collection in the electromagnetic spectrum, and data set manipulations for earth and environmental science applications will be emphasized. We will cover fundamental knowledge of the physics of remote sensing; aerial photographic techniques; multispectral, hyperperspectral, thermal, and other image analysis. Students will pursue an independent research project using remote sensing tools, and at the end of the semester should have a good understanding and the basic skills of remote sensing.
Course number only
6700
Cross listings
EESC4700401
Use local description
No

EESC6336 - Advanced Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics and Implications for Future Climate Change

Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
402
Title (text only)
Advanced Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics and Implications for Future Climate Change
Term
2024C
Subject area
EESC
Section number only
402
Section ID
EESC6336402
Course number integer
6336
Meeting times
F 1:45 PM-2:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Irina Marinov
Description
This course covers the fundamentals of atmosphere and ocean dynamics, and aims to put these in the context of climate change in the 21st century. Large-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulation, the global energy balance, and the global energy balance, and the global hydrological cycle. We will introduce concepts of fluid dynamics and we will apply these to the vertical and horizontal motions in the atmosphere and ocean. Concepts covered include: hydrostatic law, buoyancy and convection, basic equations of fluid motions, Hadley and Ferrel cells in the atmosphere, thermohaline circulation, Sverdrup ocean flow, modes of climate variability (El-Nino, North Atlantic Oscillation, Southern Annular Mode). The course will incorporate student led discussions based on readings of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and recent literature on climate change. Aimed at undergraduate or graduate students who have no prior knowledge of meteorology or oceanography or training in fluid mechanics. Previous background in calculus and/or introductory physics is helpful. This is a general course which spans many subdisciplines (fluid mechanics, atmospheric science, oceanography, hydrology).
Course number only
6336
Cross listings
EESC4336402, PHYS3314402
Use local description
No