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introduction to mass transport in environmental flows with emphasis on river & lake systems, derivation & solutions to differential mass conservation equations, molecular & turbulent diffusion, boundary layers, dissolution, bed-water exchange, air-water exchange & particle transport: readings, labs, tools, related resources

promotes understanding of the Geographic Information Science and Technology enterprise (GIS&T, also known as "geospatial"): Data and Information, Scales and Transformations, Census Data and Thematic Maps, Topology and Geocoding, Land Surveying and GPS, National Spatial Data Infrastructure, Remotely Sensed Image Data, Integrating Geographic Data

strategic and political implications of ongoing trends in global energy markets, particularly markets for crude oil and natural gas, world's major oil and natural gas producing regions (Middle East, the Caspian Region, Russia, Venezuela, and the North Sea), Producer-consumer relationships for China, India, Japan, and the US, foreign policy implications, especially with respect to China

• Economics of a Sustainable Society - economic fundamentals, sustainability as an ethic and as a policy standard, interrelationships between sustainability and factors such as income, poverty, educational attainment, empowerment of women and ethnic minorities, international trade, population growth and taxes, policy proposals, discounting, economic development assistance programs, methods for measuring progress, issues, case studies

• Environmental and Natural Resources Economics - normative foundations, supply and demand, property rights, externalities, natural resource economics, fisheries economics, benefit cost analysis, political economy, compliance and deterrence, incentive regulation, cap & trade, RPS, climate change

examines the general topic of climate change and asks are the scientific uncertainties surrounding Global Warming large enough to preclude developing mitigation policies?

processes & distribution of glacial deposits: mass balance ice flow, glacier erosion & deposition, sub-glacial deformation, debris flow deposition, melt-out tills & ice-contact, processes, landforms, kettles, ice-contact landforms, glacial lakes, outwash

Relative Dating, Rocks and Minerals, Weathering of Rocks & Formation of Sediment, Data Table for Sand Samples, Sedimentary (Rocks, Rock Classification Table, Structures, Depositional Environments, Classification Chart), Stratigraphy & Lithologic Correlation, Invertebrate macrofossils, Fossil Preservation, Microfossils, Biostratigraphy Evolution, Evolution of Vertebrates, Interpreting Geologic History from Maps

ways to recognize and characterize major structures in the earth's crust and gain insight into how these structures form, understanding crustal structures, techniques for determining the sequence in which structures form, macroscopic & microscopic structures

geological background & volcanoes, dynamics of eruptions, Kilauea volcano, reading list, maps & pictures of Hawaii, links, course outline

Earth’s history as revealed through the principles of stratigraphy and the processes of physical geology, formations and geologic development of the North American continent: handouts (Geological Timescale, Exam Review Sheets, Review of Cordilleran Tectonics), links