GEOL
007 Earth Hazards - 2013 Spring Edition
1130-1245 Tuesday, Thursday in Billings Lecture Hall
Tsunami run up, Japan, 2011
PERFECT STORM PAPER
ASSIGNMENT - due in CLASS on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013 as HARDCOPY, no electronic submissions accepted
Faculty: Paul
Bierman, Geology Department and School of Natural Resources,
pbierman@uvm.edu,
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DELEHANTY HALL 6-4411, office hr Tuesday, 10-11 am (before the weekly quiz)
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Thomas Neilson, Geology Department,
tneilson@uvm.edu, 6-3398, office hour in Delehanty Hall 314 MONDAY from 11 to 12 am
Alice Newman, Geology Department,
acnewman@uvm.edu, 6-3398, in Delehanty Hall 314 MONDAY from 4 to 5 pm
Week by Week Web
Reading Assignments
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see the sites to read for each topic, and questions for each week.
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Readings
There are a variety of readings for this class, most of them
from popular sources. There is no text book.
You should purchase the following books from the book store
or from the web or from your favorite local bookseller:
1. The Control of Nature, John McPhee, ISBN-10: 0538737557 ÊISBN-13: 9780538737555
2. Geology and the Environment, Pipkin et al., ISBN-10: 113360398X
ISBN-13: 9781133603986. You can use Edition 7 ONLY (there are have been BIG changes since edition 6)
3. The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger, ISBN 006101351X
4. An I-clicker (the bookstore has them in stock as of 1/10/2013)
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