printer friendly pageESS 61Q: Food and security (EARTHSYS 61Q, INTNLREL 61Q)
The course will provide a broad overview of key policy issues concerning agricultural development and food security, and will assess how global governance is addressing the problem of food security. At the same time the course will provide an overview of the field of international security, and examine how governments and international institutions are beginning to include food in discussions of security.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Naylor, R. (PI)
;
Stedman, S. (PI)
ESS 101: Environmental and Geological Field Studies in the Rocky Mountains (EARTHSYS 100)
Three-week, field-based program in the Greater Yellowstone/Teton and Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. Field-based exercises covering topics including: basics of structural geology and petrology; glacial geology; western cordillera geology; paleoclimatology; chemical weathering; aqueous geochemistry; and environmental issues such as acid mine drainage and changing land-use patterns.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Chamberlain, P. (PI)
ESS 112: Human Society and Environmental Change (EARTHSYS 112, EARTHSYS 212, HISTORY 103D)
Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human-environment interactions with a focus on economics, policy, culture, history, and the role of the state. Prerequisite:
ECON 1.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Frank, Z. (PI)
;
Naylor, R. (PI)
;
Cavallo, C. (TA)
;
Jaeger, M. (TA)
;
Nestler, M. (TA)
ESS 118: Disasters, Decisions, Development in Sustainable Urban Systems (ESS 218, GEOPHYS 118X, GEOPHYS 218X, GS 118, GS 218, POLISCI 224A, PUBLPOL 118)
CEE 224X of the CEE 224XYZ SUS Project series is joining forces with D3: Disasters, Decisions, Development to offer D3+SUS, which will connect principles of sustainable urban systems with the challenge of increasing resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project-based learning course is designed to align with the Resilient By Design | Bay Area Challenge (
http://www.resilientbayarea.org/); students will learn the basic concepts of resilience and tools of risk analysis while applying those mindsets and toolsets to a collective research product delivered to the RBD community. Students who take D3+SUS are encouraged to continue on to
CEE 224Y and
CEE 224Z, in which teams will be paired with local partners and will develop interventions to improve the resilience of local communities. For more information, visit
http://sus.stanford.edu/courses.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Cain, B. (PI)
;
Hilley, G. (PI)
;
Leckie, J. (PI)
;
Ouyang, D. (PI)
;
Suckale, J. (PI)
;
Watson, L. (TA)
ESS 123: Ecophysiology and Land Surface Processes (BIO 125, ESS 223)
Ecological and physical processes of ecosystem function, spanning from the micrometer scale of plant physiological processes to the ecosystem and global scale. Emphasizes interactions between ecological processes and the physical world at the land surface and in the atmosphere.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
ESS 135: Community Leadership
Offered through Residential Education to residents of Castano House, Manzanita Park. Topics include: emotional intelligence, leadership styles, listening, facilitating meetings, group dynamics and motivation, finding purpose, fostering resilience. Students will lead discussions on personal development, relationships, risky behaviors, race, ethnicity, spirituality, integrity.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Jones, J. (PI)
ESS 164: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science (GIS) (EARTHSYS 144)
Survey of geographic information including maps, satellite imagery, and census data, approaches to spatial data, and tools for integrating and examining spatially-explicit data. Emphasis is on fundamental concepts of geographic information science and associated technologies. Topics include geographic data structure, cartography, remotely sensed data, statistical analysis of geographic data, spatial analysis, map design, and geographic information system software. Computer lab assignments. All students are required to attend a weekly lab session.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-AQR
ESS 205: Fundamentals of Geobiology (GS 205)
Lecture and discussion covering key topics in the history of life on Earth, as well as basic principles that apply to life in the universe. Co-evolution of Earth and life; critical intervals of environmental and biological change; geomicrobiology; paleobiology; global biogeochemical cycles; scaling of geobiological processes in space and time.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Boyce, C. (PI)
;
Francis, C. (PI)
ESS 218: Disasters, Decisions, Development in Sustainable Urban Systems (ESS 118, GEOPHYS 118X, GEOPHYS 218X, GS 118, GS 218, POLISCI 224A, PUBLPOL 118)
CEE 224X of the CEE 224XYZ SUS Project series is joining forces with D3: Disasters, Decisions, Development to offer D3+SUS, which will connect principles of sustainable urban systems with the challenge of increasing resilience in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project-based learning course is designed to align with the Resilient By Design | Bay Area Challenge (
http://www.resilientbayarea.org/); students will learn the basic concepts of resilience and tools of risk analysis while applying those mindsets and toolsets to a collective research product delivered to the RBD community. Students who take D3+SUS are encouraged to continue on to
CEE 224Y and
CEE 224Z, in which teams will be paired with local partners and will develop interventions to improve the resilience of local communities. For more information, visit
http://sus.stanford.edu/courses.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Cain, B. (PI)
;
Hilley, G. (PI)
;
Leckie, J. (PI)
;
Ouyang, D. (PI)
;
Suckale, J. (PI)
;
Watson, L. (TA)
ESS 220: Physical Hydrogeology (CEE 260A)
(Formerly
GES 230.) Theory of underground water occurrence and flow, analysis of field data and aquifer tests, geologic groundwater environments, solution of field problems, and groundwater modeling. Introduction to groundwater contaminant transport and unsaturated flow. Lab. Prerequisite: elementary calculus.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
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