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

CLIMATE CHANGE ASSIGNMENT - due in CLASS on TUESDAY APRIL 16, 2013 as HARDCOPY, no electronic submissions accepted

 ALL KINDS OF USEFUL STUFF FOR YOU!

 BOOKS TO BUY

 E-RESERVE READINGS

 COURSE SCHEDULE

  GET YOUR CLICKER!

 Web Supplements - check these out!

 INTRO, RULES, REGS, AND GRADES

  PAUL'S WEB SITE

 Example QUIZ QUESTIONS

 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS!!!!



Faculty: Paul Bierman, Geology Department and School of Natural Resources, pbierman@uvm.edu,
307 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

 

Click on one of the links below to see the sites to read for each topic, and questions for each week.

 Schedule
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Hurricanes
Nor'easters
Floods
Landslides
Mudflows
Tsunamis
Avalanches
Climate change
Asteroids and Comets
Nuclear Energy

 

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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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