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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A year-long survey, in sequence, of fundamental papers in the geosciences. Topics in 505 (Fall) include the origin and interior of the Earth, plate tectonics, geodynamics, the history of life on Earth, the composition of the Earth, its oceans and atmospheres, past climate. Topics in 506 (Spring) include present and future climate, biogeochemical processes in the ocean, geochemical cycles, orogenies, thermochronology, rock fracture and seismicity. A core course for all beginning graduate students in the geosciences.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A survey of fundamental papers in the Geosciences. Topics include present and future climate, biogeochemical processes in the ocean, geochemical cycles, orogenies, thermochronology, rock fracture and seismicity. This is the second of two core geosciences graduate courses.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Course focuses on microbial interactions with a wide range of terrestrial environments and the bioenergetics of microbial respiration coupled to mineral diagenesis and hydrocarbon degradation. Students learn how to use Geochemist Workbench and PhreeqC to model their own experimental or field data and how to construct thermodynamic data sets using SUPCRT92. Course is part lecture and part seminar, and contains a computer lab. Undergraduates who have taken GEO363 or GEO417/428, or who convince the instructor that they have adequate geochemical and microbiological training are welcome.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A discussion of major climatic events in Earth history and their causes. Topics include Snowball Earth, Paleozoic glaciations, warm Cretaceous climates, major climate events of the Cenozoic, and Pleistocene ice ages. We will analyze these climate events in the context of Earth's radiative balance, greenhouse warming, interactions between the atmosphere and biosphere, and modeling studies of oceans, atmosphere, and paleoclimate.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Investigation of paleoenvironments and biotic effects associated with Cretaceous and oceanic anoxic events and large igneous provinces.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Geometrical description of continuum mechanics. Motion; spatial or Eulerian versus convected or Lagrangrian coordinates; metric, deformation rate, vorticity; strain; spin; stress; conservation laws. Tools from differential geometry include vectors, one-forms and general tensors; covariant, material, exterior and Lie derivatives; differential forms and integration.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A Tropical Perspective on Ice Ages - explores why the sensitivity of the Earth's climate to Milankovitch forcing has increased dramatically over the past 3 millions years as is evident in records of two separate but related phenomena: the waxing and waning of glaciers in high latitudes; and the rise and fall of sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. What are the feedback's that increased climate sensitivity over the past 3 million years? What are the implications for future climate changes?
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course focuses on selected topics in aqueous chemistry of the natural systems, including: chemistry of inorganic and organic species in aqueous solutions- hydration, hydrolysis, coordination chemistry of metal-ligand complexes, chemical equilibria in fresh and saline water; mineral dissolution and alteration, recrystallization and evolution of secondary phases, dissolution kinetics; nucleation and precipitation of minerals, biological control in mineral precipitation, precipitation kinetics; electron transfer in aquatic systems, redox equilibria and kinetics; chemistry of water-solid/air interfaces.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course lays a foundation for functional acquisition of German. Class time is devoted to language tasks that will foster communicative competence, stressing listening and reading strategies, vocabulary acquisition, authentic input, and oral production. Conducted in German.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Continues the goals of GER 101, focusing on increased communicative proficiency (oral and written), effective reading strategies, and listening skills. Emphasis on functional language tasks: learning to request, persuade, ask for help, express opinions, agree and disagree, negotiate conversations, and gain perspective on German culture through readings,discussion, and film. Participants are eligible to apply for Princeton-in-Munich, GER 105-G, June, 2011. The afternoon section , intended for graduate students, follows the basic syllabus with added emphasis on reading skills.
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