Additional prerequisites are specified in the course descriptions. Activities include stream and groundwater flow and chemistry measurements, hydrogeologic mapping, and environmental site assessment.
Most class meetings are outdoors.
GEOS 3310 is a corequisite or prerequisite. Hands-on activities that include biological classification, form and analyses of bones, calculations of dinosaur mass, calculations of speed from fossil trackways, assembling a horse or a cow, and building your own sauropod dinosaur from chicken bones. A self-paced course examining the interactions of people and our physical environment. Natural hazards, including landslides, flooding, tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes, erosion and sea-level change. Air, soil, fresh and ocean water pollution problems and solutions including greenhouse gases, ozone depletion, acid rain, aquifer depletion, toxic wastes and contamination.