The 2001 trip is going to England, Scotland, and Wales. Students will learn how digital maps created from, or utilizing, digital imagery from airplanes, space shuttles, and satellites can help in displaying and analyzing spatial data, modeling processes, and making decisions. Labs will emphasize the use of remote sensing and GIS in a variety of environmental and other applications. Offered in alternate years. A study of selected environmental hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic activity, flooding, avalanches, water depletion and pollution.
Study includes land use planning and case histories involving environmental law.
Laboratory uses maps, aerial photos and geologic data in the analysis and control of environmental hazards and in land use planning. Laboratory and field trips. Offered in alternate years. The study of the physics of the earth, its gravitational and magnetic fields, heat flow, seismicity and internal structure. The geophysical aspects of plate tectonics will be stressed.