Earth & Environment

• GRS ES 927: Structural Geology and Tectonics
  
• GRS ES 931: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy
  
• GRS ES 941: Coastal and Marine Geology
  
• GRS ES 961: Ds Geophysics
  
• GRS ES 962: Ds Geophysics
  
• GRS ES 963: Ds Seismology
  
• GRS ES 971: Geochemistry
  
• GRS ES 972: Geochemistry
  
• GRS GE 600: Environment and Development: A Political Ecology Approach
  Theory and practice of development with an explicit focus on environmental issues. Introduces history of development and the environment; explores select themes in development and environmental studies (e.g. rural livelihoods, conservation, urbanization, and climate change); and considers alternative development paradigms.
• 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
  

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