Courses

• 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 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: Food, Energy, and Water Policy
  Economic and policy analysis of how to manage ecosystems for the provision of food, energy, and water. Introduces cost-benefit analysis, dynamic optimization, and ecosystem service valuation as tools for understanding the optimal management of ecosystems and tradeoffs.
• GRS GE 675: Urban Ecology
  The biophysical environments and ecology of urban settlements. Key topics include the physical environment, patterns in human population growth and development, ecosystem structure and function, global change, urban environment pollution and management, and sustainable urban development. Also offered as GRS BI 675.
• 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 710: Scientific Assessments of Environmental Issues: Process and Evaluation
  A seminar on the history, practice, and evaluation of scientific assessments of environmental issues. Examples include stratospheric ozone, climate change, and biodiversity. Assessments are examined as scientific communications challenges and criteria for their success or failure are discussed. Also offered as GRS IR 728.
• 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 798: Global Development Capstone
  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: Spatial Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  Covers advanced research topics in GIS dealing with the measurement, storage, retrieval, and analysis of spatial information. Topics include fuzzy sets, fractals, and spatial statistics. Completion of project is required.
• GRS GE 840: Tpcs Remote Sen
  
• GRS HI 649: The Making of Modern Britain
  Political, social, and intellectual developments; emphasis on evolution of cabinet government and the party system; the industrial revolution and social problems; political reform and the emergence of democracy.
• GRS HI 698: African American History
  Surveys the history of African Americans from their African origins to the present, investigating their critical role in shaping the meaning of race, rights, freedom, and democracy during slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era. Also offered as GRS AA 871.
• GRS HI 699: Teaching College History
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in history. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS HI 704: Science and Christianity
  Examines the relationship between science and the Christian tradition in Europe and North America since 1500. Considers the epistemological and metaphysical foundations of both science and Christian thought as they have evolved over time. Also offered as GRS RN 669.
• GRS HI 705: American Thought and Culture, 1776 to 1900
  Examines how intellectuals constructed an "exceptional" American identity by adjusting provincial Protestant and Enlightenment traditions to the challenges of transnational democratic, Romantic, and secular thought. Topics include Transcendentalism, pro- and anti-slavery movements, philosophical idealism, literary realism, and Darwinian theories.
• GRS HI 706: American Thought and Culture, 1900 to the Present
  Investigates how American thinkers brought about an intellectual revolution in three challenging moments: the naturalist revolt in pragmatic philosophy and modern art; progressive liberals' confrontations with radicalism and new conservatisms; and post-structuralists' uncertain leap beyond modernist science, religion, and humanities. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course entitled "Intellectual History of the United States, 1900 to the Present" that was previously numbered GRS HI 706.

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