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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 policy responses to environmental problems caused by economic development with special attention to innovation, innovation for the environment explored: reading material, course download

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

Mineral Definition & Properties, Classification, Physical Properties, Environments, Crystal Systems & Classes, Point & Space Groups, Crystal Structures, Coordination, Structure and stoichiometry, X-rays, powder diffraction, Density, optics, Birefringence & Pleochroism, Indicatrix, Biaxial Interference figures, Light, Biaxial Indicatrix, Isotropic, Phase Diagrams, Classification, Uniaxial Mineral, Systematic Mineralogy, Native Elements, Sulfides, Halides, Oxides, Hydroxides, Carbonates, Systematic Descriptive Mineralogy, Sulfates, Phosphates

Earth Systems, Plate Tectonics, Earth Materials, Igneous Rocks, Intrusives, Sedimentary Rocks, Metamorphism, Deformation, Clocks in Rocks (Geologic Time), Solar System and formation of planets,– Evolution of Continents, Geobiology, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Earth’s Interior, Climate System, Weathering Erosion, and Mass Wasting, Groundwater and Hydrologic Cycle, Rivers and Streams, Winds and Deserts, Coasts and Oceans, Glaciers, Landscapes, Human Impacts

nucleosynthetic processes and the isotopic abundances of the elements, geochronology and cosmochronology using radioactive decay schemes, use of radiogenic and stable isotopes in petrology and their application to study of the evolution of the crust and mantle, isotopic evidence regarding formation of Earth & solar system, stable isotopes and their use in geothermometry, ore petrogenesis, paleontology, global climate system

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