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3.00 Credits
Discussion of proposals for large-scale intentional modification and/or control of climate. Physical mechanisms, intended benefits, risks, costs, scenarios for deployment, historical analogs, possible unintended physical and social consequences, ethical dilemmas, oath for earth and environmental scientists. Prerequisite: one course in Earth and Ocean Sciences or consent of instructor. Instructor: Haff
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the emerging world of the 21st century, "the neoenvironment," where life, environment, and social interaction are increasingly engineered by novel technologies. Topics include transition of science from observation and understanding to manipulation and control, acceleration of technology, emergence of the internet and other global networks, novel life forms, redesigning of humans, artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, proliferation of computation and surveillance in the environment, numericalization of nature and society. Prerequisite: one course in Earth and Ocean Sciences or consent of instructor. Instructor: Haff
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3.00 Credits
Topics in the seminar will include climate change, earth surface alteration, prediction, water and carbon cycling, sea-level rise and coastal erosion, biodiversity, fossil fuels and energy resources, water resources, soil fertility, human impact on coastal zone ecosystems. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Instructor: Baker
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3.00 Credits
Ways to extract information from data; methods for probing time or spatial series including spectral and wavelet analyses, correlation techniques, and nonlinear-dynamics approaches for determining how deterministic and linear the processes producing the data are, and for reconstructing and quantitatively comparing state-space plots. Instructor: Murray
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3.00 Credits
Introductory thermodynamics applied to geologic problems through understanding of phase equilibrium. Prerequisites: Earth and Ocean Sciences 101L; and Mathematics 32 or consent of instructor. Instructor: Boudreau
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3.00 Credits
Theory and applications of stable and radioactive isotope distributions in nature (including oceanographic, geologic, hydrologic, and biological processes). Prerequisites: Chemistry 32L and Mathematics 32. Instructor: Baker or Vengosh
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to advanced analytic procedures used in the earth sciences: such as electron microbeam techniques (scanning electron microscopy, electron microprobe analysis) and plasma emission/absorption spectroscopy. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Boudreau
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the mineralogy, geological setting, and genesis of metallic and non-metallic deposits (gold, copper, iron, aluminum, gypsum, phosphates, diamonds, e.g.). Includes methods of mineral exploration and exploitation, and the environmental consequences of utilizing mineral resources. An introductory geology course background useful but not required. Instructor: Boudreau
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3.00 Credits
Thermodynamics of tropical climate. Nature and mechanisms of climate variability in the tropics on time scales from daily to multi-millennial. Impact of climatic variability on the tropical biota. Effects of anthropogenic changes of the environment on future climatic change in the tropics and potential extratropical teleconnections. Prerequisite: Earth and Ocean Sciences 11 or 12. Instructor: Baker
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3.00 Credits
Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff
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