printer friendly pageGEOPHYS 60N: Man versus Nature: Coping with Disasters Using Space Technology (EE 60N)
Preference to freshman. Natural hazards, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, and fires, and how they affect people and society; great disasters such as asteroid impacts that periodically obliterate many species of life. Scientific issues, political and social consequences, costs of disaster mitigation, and how scientific knowledge affects policy. How spaceborne imaging technology makes it possible to respond quickly and mitigate consequences; how it is applied to natural disasters; and remote sensing data manipulation and analysis. GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Last offered: Autumn 2012
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-SMA
GEOPHYS 104: The Water Course (EARTHSYS 104)
The pathway that water takes from rainfall to the tap using student home towns as an example. How the geological environment controls the quantity and quality of water; taste tests of water from around the world. Current U.S. and world water supply issues. Offered Spring 2014.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA, GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-AQR
GEOPHYS 110: Earth on the Edge: Introduction to Geophysics
Introduction to the foundations of contemporary geophysics. Topics drawn from four broad themes in: whole Earth geodynamics, geohazards, natural resources, and environment/sustainability. In each case the focus is on how the interpretation of a variety of geophysical measurements (e.g., gravity, seismology, heat flow, magnetism, electromagnetics, and geodesy) can be used to provide fundamental insight into the behavior of the Earth's complex geosystems. Prerequisite:
CME 100 or MA TH 51, or co-registration in either. Offered every year, autumn quarter. Next offering, Autumn 2013-14
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
;
Litherland, M. (PI)
GEOPHYS 113: Earthquakes and Volcanoes (EARTHSYS 113)
Earthquake location, magnitude and intensity scales, seismic waves, styles of eruptions and volcanic hazards, tsunami waves, types and global distribution of volcanoes, volcano forecasting. Plate tectonics as a framework for understanding earthquake and volcanic processes. Forecasting; earthquake resistant design; building codes; and probabilistic hazard assessment. For non-majors and potential earth scientists. Offered every year, spring quarter.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-SMA, WAY-AQR
Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
;
Barrett, S. (TA)
GEOPHYS 120: Ice, Water, Fire (GEOPHYS 220)
Introductory application of continuum mechanics to ice sheets and glaciers, water waves and tsunamis, and volcanoes. Emphasis on physical processes and mathematical description using balance of mass and momentum, combined with constitutive equations for fluids and solids. Designed for undergraduates with no prior geophysics background; also appropriate for beginning graduate students.nnPrerequisites:
CME 100 or
MATH 52 and
PHYSICS 41 (or equivalent).nnOffered every year, winter quarter (except 2013-2014, when offered in spring).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA, WAY-FR, GER: DB-NatSci
Instructors:
Dunham, E. (PI)
;
Bydlon, S. (TA)
GEOPHYS 130: Introductory Seismology
Introduction to seismology including: elasticity and the wave equation, P, S, and surface waves, dispersion, ray theory, reflection and transmission of seismic waves, seismic imaging, large-scale Earth structure, earthquake location, earthquake statistics and forecasting, magnitude scales, seismic source theory. Offered every year, Autumn quarter. (Beroza, G)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-AQR, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
;
Walters, R. (PI)
GEOPHYS 150: Geodynamics: Our Dynamic Earth
In this course we cover the dynamic forces acting upon the Earth. We will investigate how geophysical forces effect the bending of tectonic plates, the flow of heat, sea level topography, the breaking point of rocks, porous flow, and how faults store and release energy.
Math 52 or
CME 102, GP 107 or permission from instructor. Offered every year, spring quarter (except 2013-14 when offered in Winter).
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Lawrence, J. (PI)
GEOPHYS 170: Global Tectonics
The architecture of the Earth's crust; regional assembling of structural or deformational features and their relationship, origin and evolution. The plate-tectonic cycle: rifting, passive margins, sea-floor spreading, subduction zones, and collisions. Case studies.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA
GEOPHYS 183: Reflection Seismology Interpretation (GEOPHYS 223, GES 223)
The structural and stratigraphic interpretation of seismic reflection data, emphasizing hydrocarbon traps in two and three dimensions on industry data, including workstation-based interpretation. Lectures only, 1 unit. Prerequisite: 222, or consent of instructor. Offered Spring quarter 2013-14
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA
GEOPHYS 184: Journey to the Center of the Earth (GEOPHYS 274, GES 107, GES 207)
The interconnected set of dynamic systems that make up the Earth. Focus is on fundamental geophysical observations of the Earth and the laboratory experiments to understand and interpret them. What earthquakes, volcanoes, gravity, magnetic fields, and rocks reveal about the Earth's formation and evolution. Offered every other year, winter quarter. Next offering Winter 2013-14.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Lawrence, J. (PI)
;
Mao, W. (PI)
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