Students will be required to be in residence at an appropriate field station in the New York area for the duration of the course. Completion of a lecture plus laboratory course designed for majors in either Biology or Geology. Completion of one year of chemistry and one semester of calculus is strongly recommended. Enrollment by application only. This course utilizes the Department's Weather Station and Geosciences Computer Laboratory where oceanographic and atmospheric data are remotely sensed from space.
Course introduces mineral optics and x-ray diffraction.
Ground Water Hydrology Occurrence of ground water. Basic equations and concepts of ground water flow. Methods of ground water investigation. Can be taken in the spring semester or in the summer. Also open to post-graduates in the environmental fields, by permission.