printer friendly pageGES 102: Earth Materials: Introduction to Mineralogy
The minerals and materials that comprise the earth and their uses in modern society. How to identify, classify, and interpret rock-forming minerals. Emphasis is on information provided by common minerals about the nature of the Earth's interior and processes such as magmatism and metamorphism that operate there, as well as the major processes of weathering and erosion that link plate tectonics to earth cycles. Required lab section. Prerequisite: introductory geology course. Recommended: introductory chemistry.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
GES 105: Introduction to Field Methods
Two-week, field-based course in the White Mountains of eastern California. Introduction to the techniques for geologic mapping and geologic investigation in the field: systematic observations and data collection for lithologic columns and structural cross-sections. Interpretation of field relationships and data to determine the stratigraphic and deformational history of the region. Prerequisite:
GES 1, recommended:
GES 102.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Cina, S. (PI)
;
Grove, M. (PI)
GES 107: Journey to the Center of the Earth (GEOPHYS 184, GEOPHYS 274, 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
GES 111: Fundamentals of Structural Geology (CEE 195)
Techniques for mapping using GPS and differential geometry to characterize structures; dimensional analysis and scaling relations; kinematics of deformation and flow; measurement and analysis of stress; elastic deformation and properties of rock; brittle deformation including fracture and faulting; linear viscous flow including folding and magma dynamics; model development and methodology. Models of tectonic processes are constructed and solutions visualized using MATLAB. Prerequisites:
GES 1,
MATH 51
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-FR, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Pollard, D. (PI)
GES 123: Paleobiology (EARTHSYS 122)
Introduction to the fossil record with emphasis on marine invertebrates. Major debates in paleontological research. The history of animal life in the oceans. Topics include the nature of the fossil record, evolutionary radiations, mass extinctions, and the relationship between biological evolution and environmental change. Fossil taxa through time. Exercises in phylogenetics, paleoecology, biostratigraphy, and statistical methods.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
GES 130: Soil Physics and Hydrology
The occurrence, distribution, circulation, and reaction of water at the surface and within the near surface. Topics: precipitation, evapotranspiration, infiltration and vadose zone, groundwater, surface water and streamflow generation, and water balance estimates. Current and classic theory in soil physics and hydrology. Urban, rangeland, and forested environments.
Last offered: Autumn 2012
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
GES 131: Hydrologically-Driven Landscape Evolution
Materials of the Earth and hydrologically driven landscape processes. Topics: hillslope hydrology, weathering of rocks and soils, erosion, flow failures, mass wasting, and conceptual models of landscape evolution. Current and classic theory in geomorphology.
Last offered: Winter 2013
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
HUMBIO 2A: Genetics, Evolution, and Ecology
Introduction to the principles of classical and modern genetics, evolutionary theory, and population biology. Topics: micro- and macro-evolution, population and molecular genetics, biodiversity, and ecology, emphasizing the genetics and ecology of the evolutionary process and applications to human populations.
HUMBIO 2A and 2B must be taken concurrently.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Durham, W. (PI)
;
Preston, K. (PI)
;
Talbot, W. (PI)
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Instructors:
Durham, W. (PI)
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Preston, K. (PI)
;
Talbot, W. (PI)
;
Burch, H. (TA)
;
Jovel, I. (TA)
;
Makuvire, T. (TA)
;
Nguyen, C. (TA)
HUMBIO 2B: Culture, Evolution, and Society
Introduction to the evolutionary study of human diversity. Hominid evolution, the origins of social complexity, social theory, and the emergence of the modern world system, emphasizing the concept of culture and its influence on human differences.
HUMBIO 2A and 2B must be taken concurrently.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-SMA
HUMBIO 3A: Cell and Developmental Biology
The principles of the biology of cells: principles of human developmental biology, biochemistry of energetics and metabolism, the nature of membranes and organelles, hormone action and signal transduction in normal and diseased states (diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases), drug discovery, immunology, and drug addiction.
HUMBIO 3A and 3B must be taken concurrently. Prerequisite: college chemistry or completion of the HumBio chemistry lecture series during the fall quarter.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Fuller, M. (PI)
;
Nusse, R. (PI)
;
Talbot, W. (PI)
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Fuller, M. (PI)
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Nusse, R. (PI)
;
Talbot, W. (PI)
;
Burch, H. (TA)
;
Jovel, I. (TA)
;
Makuvire, T. (TA)
;
Nguyen, C. (TA)
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