GEOS 328/628 - Science Seminar

       

 

Course Syllabus

bullet Evaluation Rubric for Presentation
bullet Evaluation Rubric for Term Paper
bullet Instruction for Term Paper
bullet    Library and Web Resources for Term Paper

Weekly Tasks and Reading:

Dates Online Reading Assignments and Tasks Hard Copy Reading Assignments
Aug.31 & Sept2 Hydrologic Cycle     Human Impacts on Hydrologic Cycle     Hydrosphere    Hydrologic Cycle in PA In Library
Sept. 7 & 9 Importance of Water  US Waters Groundwater  Hydrology Watersheds  Watershed in PA  Watershed Education  West Branch Susquehanna Water Statistics In Ulmer 110
Sept. 14 & 16 Mississippi River  Levees  Lock Haven Levee  Flood BMPs (Dr. K's paper)  In Library & In Ulmer 110
Sept.21 & 23 Water & Energy Hydropower  Water Use in Power Production  Water & Ethanol   Water-related recreation   Recreation and tourism  PA Waterfalls Waterfalls in Mid-Atlantic States Springs & Tourism in PA  PA Waterfalls (in Ulmer 110)
Sept.28 & 30 Floodplain Management 2050Watershed management, PA Water Planning Floodplain Management, National Flood Insurance Program, FEMA Flood Info,  Karst Hazards  coastal erosion, Sea level rise  Books on karst by W.B. White and on coastal erosion in Library
Oct. 5 & 7 Task for the week New Orleans and flooding problems, Rebuild New Orleans? Flood Management BMPs for Flood Mitigation Books on floods in Ulmer 110
Oct. 19 Water as a source of conflicts   Water wars  Water-Next Oil Flow  Water War - Bad Time  Power Point Presentation
Water in South Asia Water War _ S. Asia
Read on the topic in Library
Oct. 26 & 28 Environmental (in)justice Race and Environment Water Quality Issues in US  AML Remediation Economics of AMD Cleanup  USGS Water Quality Study       PA Fair Share    Hard copies of reports on some of these topics are kept in my office (ask me for copies).
Nov. 2 & 4 State of Susquehanna   Gas Well Drilling and Water Quality  Growing Greener  BMPs in Ag PA Clean Water on Ballot  
Nov. 9 & 11 Water Laws, Acts, Policy, Treaties  Forum Treties COP15  
Nov. 16 & 18 Water Quality Issues in the World GEMStat  Safe H2O Sanitation & Hygine Water Scarcity  Water for Life Sharing  Global Water-related Issues  World Water Day  Water-Food  
Nov. 23 Global Warning or Warming?  Global Water-Not Really Good  
Nov. 30 Environmental Tech  Green Technology for Water NewEarth Where to from here?  Oral presentations of term papers on December 2, 7, and 15, 2010.  Note:  Oral presentations on Dec. 15 is at 10:00-11:50 am.
Careers in Geology