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  • GEOG 5210: Global Clim Chg

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Earth's climate is changing more rapidly than at any point in human history, making climate change one of the most significant threats to current and future generations. We currently have the solutions needed to address climate change, but it is imperative that we put these solutions into action before a tipping point is reached. This class will look at the 4.5 billion years of the Earth's history to learn about past climate changes and the scientific tools we use to reconstruct them. Students will learn about what causes climate change across different time scales, how humans are contributing to current and future climate change, and the personal and collective actions they can take to address climate change.
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    General Education Course

  • GEOG 5215: Climate Change Impacts

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    One of the most widely discussed issues today is the future change in the Earth's climate, with predicted increases in global temperature and resulting effects on climate regimes world-wide. These changes will impact both natural and human systems through sea level rise, the displacement of populations, health issues and changing availability of resources. In this class we will review the expected future shifts in climate and study the expected impacts of these changes on physical, biological and social systems, as well as the regional and social inequities in these impacts. With this knowledge, we will look at some of the methods that have been proposed to adapt to or mitigate these changes, including management and geoengineering of the Earth System. We will concentrate critically on the knowns and unknowns of future change and our ability to deal with it.
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  • GEOG 5260: Snow & Avalanche

    4.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Field sessions require clothing and equipment that allow students to participate in outdoor activities. Students must be able to ski or snowshoe, climb steep terrain, and safely ski back down. Two lectures or discussions weekly combined with one full afternoon in field. Second lecture meets at Alta Town Library before field session. Provides thorough background in technical avalanche forecasting procedures. Study of conditions leading to snow avalanches, broader aspects of snow in all its phases.
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  • GEOG 5280: Quaternary Environments

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Graduate students should enroll in GEOG 6280 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. The Quaternary designates the Earth's most recent geomorphic episodes, and Quaternary-aged deposits contain a rich record of environmental changes that have occurred over the past 1.9 million years. These deposits are preserved in caves, bogs, lakes, alluvium, glaciers, oceans sediments, and archaeological features, so Quaternary scientists must employ multidisciplinary methods to find, recover, date, and analyze materials to reveal information about past climates and biogeography. Students in this class will visit field sites where Quaternary deposits are preserved, learn field methods, and study theories for developing chronologies, analyzing data, and interpreting results. These data are used to provide insight on climate and environmental changes that have affected humans and other organisms in the past, and can shed light on changes that are inevitable going forward into the future. Prerequisites: 'C' or better in GEOG 1000 OR IB Geography-higher level score of 5+.
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  • GEOG 5293: Adv Snow and Ice

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course focuses on the physical principles underlying the behavior of glaciers and ice sheets. The course stresses a physical understanding of underlying processes.
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  • GEOG 5340: Disasters, Sust& Global

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Prominent natural, technological and social disasters are examined in terms of threat, risk, vulnerability, impact, and adaptation. Students monitor current disasters across geographic scales and become familiar with the nature of extreme events and how they are managed before, during, and after they occur. Disaster analysis concepts are applied to current and historic disasters with an eye on how climate change and population growth in hazardous areas are making disaster management ever more challenging.
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  • GEOG 5385: Federal Land Mgmt

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Graduate students should enroll in GEOG 5385 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. The course explores the concept of federal public lands system, including its evolution, types and extents of public lands, and agency stewardship and develop an understanding of the ethical, socio-political, and scientific forces that continue to shape our management of public lands. Discussion of the principles of multiple-use, integerated resource management, and tools that agency professionals use to manage public lands and resources. Discuss and understand current key issues in the federal land management arena.
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  • GEOG 5405: Culture, Power, & Diss

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    While culture can be difficult to define, it is everything to us. It may be facilitated by the environment, learned from family and friends, or adopted from external sources. It is inherently geographic, shaped by space and place. The impacts that culture has on our behavior are many. Why do we do what we do? Why are cultural and social rules so powerful? Is culture a good thing? We will discuss the many ways in which culture designates power and how it can create social dissonance. This class explores the many aspects of culture and cultural traits and hopes to promote cultural awareness and an overall better understanding of humans and their interactions.
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  • GEOG 5410: Paleoclimatology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Graduate students should enroll in GEOG 6410 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. Paleoclimatology is the study of climate prior to the period of instrumental measurements. A longer perspective on past climate variability though studying natural phenomena which are climate-dependent provide a basis for understanding current, past and future climatic change. Understanding the records and mechanisms of past climate change provides an opportunity for hypothesis testing the causes of climatic change. The objective of this course is to review the earth's climate history in order to understand what that history can tell us about how the climate system operates, and how it may vary in the future. The main focus f the course will be on past climates, the types of records used to document past climates, and exploring climate model simulations frequently used in paleoclimatology. Prerequisites: 'C' or better in GEOG 1000 AND (GEOG 3205 OR GEOG 3210 OR GEOG 5210)
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  • GEOG 5420: Pollen Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Graduate students should enroll in GEOG 6420 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. This class exposes students to the study of pollen in this class, but the main objectives of the course include learning: 1) what pollen looks like, 2) the terminology to describe the sculpting and structure of a pollen grain, 3) to identify pollen grain to the lowest taxonomic level, 4) how to analyze a fossil sample, 5) how to present the results of a fossil sample analysis. The course includes lecture and laboratory components.
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