Environmental Science 342: Environmental Geology

Spring 2009

Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Office: LS 463, Phone: 465-2246
email: dutchs@uwgb.edu, HOME PAGE: http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs
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Part I. Geology and the Environment
Jan. 26- Jan. 30	Introduction, Earth Processes	Ch. 1,2
Feb. 2 - Feb. 6	Geologic Hazards
Part II. Processes that Affect Human Activities
Feb. 9- Feb. 13	Earthquakes	Ch. 3,4
Feb. 16 - Feb. 20	Volcanoes	Ch. 5
Feb. 23 - Feb. 27	Meteor Impacts		Feb. 27 Exam I
Mar. 2 - Mar. 6	Floods	Ch. 6
Mar. 9- Mar. 13	Coastal Processes	Ch. 7
Mar. 14- Mar. 22	Spring Break
Mar. 23 - Mar. 27	Slope Failures, Soils	Ch. 8, 9, 11
Part III. Human Effects on Earth Processes
Mar. 30 - Apr. 3	Surface Water Hydrology	Ch. 10, 16
Apr. 6 - Apr. 10	Ground Water Hydrology	Ch. 10, 15
Apr. 13- Apr. 17	Resources and Reserves; Mineral Resources	Ch. 12	Apr. 13 Exam II
Apr. 20 - Apr. 24	Energy Resources	Ch. 9, 13, 14
Apr. 27 - May 1	Military Impacts on the Environment
Part IV. Geology and Hazard Planning
May 4 - May 8	Environmental Law and Environmental Impact	Ch. 17, 18, 19	May 4: Paper due

Text: Carla W. Montgomery, Environmental Geology, 7/ed

Final Exam Wednesday May 13, 8-10 AM in MAC 219

Grading: 1/3 midterms, 1/3 assignments, 1/3 final

Understand how the interactions between the solid earth, hydrosphere and atmosphere affect humans
Understand the principal types of floods and the hazards they pose
Know why earthquakes occur where they do, and how they endanger human life and property.
Know why volcanoes occur where they do, and how they endanger human life and property.
Understand slope movements and their effects on humans
Understand how mineral resources form, and understand their finite extent
Know how oceans affect shorelines and humans that live near them
Understand how humans affect water on the surface and underground, and how those changes affect humans
Understand how military operations affect the environment
Understand the Constitutional basis for environmental legislation
Know the essentials of key pieces of environmental legislation

Be able to follow chains of ideas and events
Be able to connect ideas from several different subject areas
Be able to learn new material and connect it to previously learned ideas so that you can recall it
Understand the implications of exponential growth on a finite planet
Understand how human choices increase or decrease risk from natural disaster
Understand that risk can be reduced but never eliminated, and reducing one risk may increase another

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