Courses

• GRS GE 620: Methods of Environmental Policy Analysis
  Introduction to the analysis of environmental policy, the implications of environmental problems for public decision making, the tools available to decision-makers, and their effectiveness, advantages, and disadvantages.
• GRS GE 625: United States Environmental Policy
  Survey and historical overview of key environmental policies and regulations in the United States. Emphasis on policy development, including formulation and implementation of federal pollution control regulations since the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970. Considers possible future policy needs.
• GRS GE 640: Digital Image Processing - Remote Sensing
  At least introductory statistics (and preferable multivariate statistics) recommended. This course pursues both the algorithms involved in processing remote sensing images and their application. Topics include preprocessing, image transformations, image classification and segmentation, spectral mixture analysis, and change detection. Examples cover a wide range of environmental applications of remote sensing. Students do a project
• GRS GE 645: Physical Models in Remote Sensing
  Devoted to understanding the physical processes involved in remote sensing. Emphasis based on topics of radiative transfer in the atmosphere, at the surface, and in sensors. Reflectance modeling, advanced sensor systems, and geometric effects. A short research paper is required.
• GRS GE 648: Remote Sensing of Vegetation
  Examines the use of remote sensing to study vegetation. Topics include resource inventory and evaluation for forests and agriculture; ecosystem processes like primary productivity and biogeochemical cycles; and spectral reflectance measurement and models. A research paper is required.
• GRS GE 656: Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle
  Explores the past, present, and possible future dynamics of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Key topics include the physical climate system, variability, ecosystem processes, land use issues, and impacts of global change on society.
• GRS GE 660: Resource Economics and Policy
  Economic analysis of environmental resources and policies for their management. Introduces dynamic optimization as a tool for understanding and analyzing both resource scarcity and the management of energy, fishery, and forestry resources for sustainability.
• GRS GE 683: Geodynamics II: Fluids and Fluid Transport
  Large and small scale phenomena in oceanic, atmospheric, and land surface fluids. Properties of gases and liquids; surface body forces; statics; flow analysis; continuity and momentum conservation. Darcy?s Law; potential, open channel geostraphic flow; dimensional analysis; diffusic turbulence.
• GRS GE 699: Teachng Coll Gg
  
• GRS GE 700: Research Methods in Human-Environment Interactions
  Introduces qualitative methods used to study human-environment interactions. Stimulates critical thinking about the research process and the particular issues of human-environment relations: how we "know," matching methods and questions, ethical issues, and dissemination of results. Also offered as GRS AN 700.
• GRS GE 712: Reg Enrgy Model
  
• GRS GE 715: Global Change Initiative: Education and Research
  Interdisciplinary perspectives on global change issues, combined with focus on how to develop effective classroom lessons to address these issues. GLACIER fellows are assigned readings from various disciplines and perspectives on global change and required to develop lesson plans.
• GRS GE 719: Colloquium in Terrestrial Biogeoscience
  Introduction to the field of Terrestrial Biogeoscience through weekly research presentations and discussions with GRS faculty and distinguished guests. Students also meet weekly with lead faculty member to discuss primary literature related to each presentation. Also offered as GRS BI 719 and GRS ES 719.
• GRS GE 720: Practicum in Terrestrial Biogeoscience
  Analysis and synthesis of the primary literature via in-depth case studies in terrestrial biogeoscience. Students meet weekly with faculty to read papers from the primary literature, synthesize results, and prepare a peer-review quality paper on the case study. Also offered as GRS BI 720 and GRS ES 720.
• GRS GE 794: Current Issues in Environmental Affairs
  Explores key concepts related to regimes and environmental diplomacy with a focus on a selected set of contemporary issues in international affairs. Fosters research on the negotiation and implementation of environmental treaties.
• GRS GE 798: Global Development Captsone
  Capstone course for MA students in Global Development Policy and Global Development Economics. Students, working in groups, design and carry out an interdisciplinary policy analysis comparable to those performed for a government or nonprofit agency. Also offered as GRS EC 798 and IR 798.
• GRS GE 805: Spat Anal Gis
  
• GRS GE 902: Student Intern
  
• GRS GE 913: Topic Develpmnt
  
• GRS GE 914: Topic Develpmnt
  

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