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Geomorphology

processes that impact large areas such as mountain building due to plate tectonics, local events such as mass wasting events on hill slopes, landforms in Ohio and their formation

Climate Change

climate change during the Holocene, different climate archives and their use to establish past climatic changes, glacier fluctuations, tree-rings, lake and marine sediments, pollen, and ice cores, current knowledge of Holocene climate change in British Columbia and surrounding areas, larger spatial and temporal patterns using examples from Europe, the Southern Hemisphere and the tropics, Possible forcing mechanisms responsible for the reconstructed changes, future climate change scenarios and their environmental consequences

Environmental Geology

relationship between society and the earth: geologic hazards, resources, environmental challenges, evolution and structure of our planet's atmosphere, effects of anthropogenic perturbations in the systems such as the introduction of pollutants in groundwater or land degradation associated with agriculture

Introduction to Geology

minerals, igneous rocks, volcanoes, weathering, erosion, soils, sediment & sedimentary rocks, metamorphism & metamorphic rocks, mass wasting/movement, running & groundwater, shorelines, glaciers, wind & deserts, geologic time, deformation & mountain building, earthquakes, plate tectonics, application of relative ages

Comparative Physiology

Digestion, Transport, Secretion, Absorption, Hormonal Regulation, Chemical Communication, Storage & Release/ Action and Examples, Circulation, Design, Evolution, Mammalian Heart & vascular System, Regulation Blood Pressure/ volume, Anatomy, Detoxification, Osmoregulation, Mammalian Kidney, Muscle

Open Web Mapping

design, develop, and implement custom web mapping applications using open standards and open source software, open source software packages for web mapping, pointers to commercial solutions where appropriate

Geology of the National Parks

groundwater pollution, biodiversity, volcanic hazards, etc, what is and is not believable about science, those subjects on which scientists are usually correct and those on which scientists have no special expertise

Climate change

explores climate change and global warming, how the Earth’s global mean surface temperature is determined, natural greenhouse effect and how this contributes to a balanced global climate, human impact on the atmosphere including the impact of industrialisation & other sources of greenhouse gases connected to humans, means of measuring climate change

Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System

detailed technical and historical exploration of the Apollo project to "fly humans to the moon and return them safely to earth", How the systems worked, the technical and social processes that produced them, mission operations, and historical significance: readings, related resources (Apollo Lunar Landing Audio/Video Clips)

Numerical Methods in Engineering

Simultaneous Linear Equations, Interpolation, Nonlinear Algebraic Equations, Numerical Differentiation, Numerical Integration, Ordinary Differential Equations

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