270.318 Invertebrate Fossils and Environments Laboratory. Global Change and Human Health. This course will examine the links connecting disease and the earth's environment, and the implications of those links for human health in a changing global environment. Team-taught by faculty from the Schools of Public Health, Arts and Sciences, Engineering and visitors. A broad description of the marine environment including the wind driven circulation, the thermohaline circulation, the tides, and the characteristics of sea water, waves, and undersea topography.
Emphasis is on phyiscal processes at work in the marine environment.
3 hours lecture. After briefly examining organic evolution as it is understood today, this course evaluates Darwin's methodology and impact on science and culture, based on an assessment of On the Origin of Species and related writings. A study of the structure and constitution of Earth's interior using observations of seismic waves. Topics includepropagation, reflection, and refraction of elastic waves, ray theory, dispersion of surface waves, seismicity, plate tectonics, Earth structure and composition. 270.329 Introduction to Seismology Laboratory.