GEO-SCI 445: Sedimentology

Basic principles governing the erosion, transport, and deposition of sediments, with applications for understanding modern sedimentary environments and preserved sedimentary records.

GEO-SCI 557: Coastal Processes

Governing processes in the coastal zone including sea level change, tides, waves, storms, coastal geomorphology, and estuarine dynamics. Student are taught common computer coding techniques focused to time series analyses on modern tide gauge, wave buoy, and other moored observations from coastal and estuarine environments. This is an upper level course for graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

GEO-SCI 103: Intro Oceanography

The natural processes of the ocean, including earthquakes and volcanoes, the hydrologic cycle, weather, ocean circulation, the global energy balance, the carbon cycle, biodiversity, marine food-webs, coastal dynamics and human impacts.