Description
Extension of the study of geology, astronomy, meteorology and oceanography, focusing on natural resources, hazards and climate variability. This laboratory-based course will focus on methods used to collect and analyze data related to natural resources, hazards and climate variability.
Upon successful completion, students will be able to: identify the influence of geologic and hydrologic processes on Earth’s surface; describe the causes and effects of tectonic, meteorological, oceanographic, and astronomical hazards; relate climate change to changes in tectonic configurations, astronomical relationships and atmospheric composition; discuss potential effects of climate variability on Earth systems, including biological systems; recognize how scientific models represent an abstraction of complex systems, such as ocean circulation and climate variability; describe natural resources used by humans and their occurrence and extraction; discuss the effects of renewable and nonrenewable r