FS 118, GRG 356T, GRG 384-C, GEO 388G, GEO 387H, GEO 302E, BIO 384K-19, LAW 397S
Unique Number 32905
Wednesdays (class meets January 15 - March 5)
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
GEO 3.222
Instructors:
Jay Banner, Ph.D.
Department of Geological Sciences
Kent Butler, Ph.D.
School of Architecture
This forum seminar will explore the range of environmental problems that have been created by human activity and population growth. Among the major issues to be addressed are water resources, climate change, loss of species and possible solutions to these problems. The roles of science, policy-making, economic interests and the media will be examined in the context of these issues.
Class flyer: http://www.geo.utexas.edu/esi/education/fs118flyer.html
Course website: http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/FS118/FS118.htm
More information on the Connexus program: http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/
TTh 12:30-2 PM, GRG 316
Instructor:
Dr. Kenneth R. Young
Department of Geography, UT-Austin
This course will survey the causes of changes in climatic systems over both
short and long time periods and their consequences for landscape dynamics,
biogeography, and land use. The first half of the course will introduce the
study of climates from an earth systems approach. Differences in climate from
one place in the world to another will also be considered. Then the history
of past climates on Earth will be examined and major processes identified.
The second half of the course will look at current climate change trends worldwide
and build towards developing the expertise to critically evaluate future climate
scenarios. This course assumes previous exposure to GRG 301C or an equivalent.
Course information.
Unique Number 33285
Monday 7:00-10:00, GRG 428
Instructor:
Dr. Paul F. Hudson
Department of Geography, UT-Austin
This graduate seminar examines human impacts on watershed systems. The course
is broadly organized into two divisions: Hillslope hydrology and soil erosion
in the upper catchment, and channel-floodplain interaction in the lower reaches
of large river systems. We begin by reviewing the major components of fluvial
systems, and also the concepts of systems theory and equilibrium as a context
to consider human impacts on watershed systems. Next we examine how infiltration
and runoff are influenced by various human actions (e.g., land use - land
cover change) and their implications for fluvial systems at the watershed-scale.
We then will move down slope, into the river valley. First we examine the
case of arroyo development in Southwestern North America. Next we focus on
the characteristics of large lowland alluvial river systems, with particular
attention to Gulf Coastal Plain fluvial systems. We will examine the ways
in which channel-floodplain systems have been humanly altered, and the environmental
consequences of such actions. This includes direct (e.g., dams, channel shortening,
levees) and indirect (e.g., land use change) impacts. The instructor draws
upon his research projects on the lower Mississippi, Panuco (Mexico), Guadalupe
(Texas), and the lower Amazon (Brazil) Rivers.
Course website: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/hudson/grg384c/grg384c_03.htm
Unique Number 53035
MWF 900 -1000
Instructor:
Libby Stern, Assistant Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Objectives of class:
To understand the major reservoirs, fluxes, and processes controlling the
distribution of biologically active chemical constituents of the earth. To
understand importance of these biogeochemical cycles in the geologic past
as well as the effects of human perturbation of these cycles. To learn simple
box modeling methods.
Course website: http://www.geo.utexas.edu/faculty/stern/GBC/Index.htm
Unique Number 53030
TTH 930 -1100
Instructor:
Liang Yang, Assistant Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
MWF 1100 -1200
Instructors:
Sharon Mosher, Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Liang Yang, Assistant Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
This is a non-science-major course which covers everything a layperson should know in order to understand how the earth works and to make informed decisions.
Course website: http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/302e/
Unique Number 49225
The combined graduate and undergraduate class meetings are scheduled TTh 7-8:30pm, but after the projects are initiated, the class meetings are once a week.
Instructor:
Dick Richardson, Professor
Department of Integrative Biology
This class is a project-based graduate course where a graduate student leads a team of advanced undergraduates (registered in Bio478T or Grg476T). A project is customized for the graduate student with Dr. Richardson’s assistance from project planning to completion. Graduate students obtaining degrees in several disciplines and with diverse backgrounds have taken this course, including the Colleges of Education, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Natural Sciences, and the Schools of Architecture, Business, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. They have found that it enhanced their career development and significantly improved their academic and professional opportunities after graduation. Several professional managers from the Austin area also have taken the course (through UT extension) and further enrich the course with real-world perspectives. Recent articles illustrate the relevance of management that combines natural, social and economic resources emphasized in this class. Examples include www.esb.utexas.edu/drnrm/Reading/Nature-floodingGrandCanyon11-28-02.pdf and www.esb.utexas.edu/drnrm/Reading/Nature-Malaria-PostDocs11-28-02.pdf
The specific nature of a project varies with the interests of each graduate student, but relates to some aspect of natural resource management. Most of the projects are in the field, usually at the Center for Environmental Research that is co-located with the 1200-acre City of Austin’s Hornsby Bend Water and Wastewater Treatment Facility. It has 3 miles of riparian habitat along the Colorado River near Bergstrom Airport and 160 acres of pond habitat that have been popular birding sites for decades. Additional projects can come from houses on the site that are part of a Green Building retrofitting project, and from related agricultural areas near Webberville that are part of a major soil ecology research program where treated sewage sludge (“biosolids”) is land applied for soil enrichment. Several graduate students in the College of Education have developed informal education projects associated with the Del Valle ISD (Hornsby Dunlap Elementary School). The class website has specific information, and descriptions for some of the previous projects.
Course website: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/resource
Unique Number 25080
Course #: 397S
TH 330 - 615P
Instructor: BENJAMIN, A
Description:
This Seminar examines the nature, structure, and content of biodiversity and natural resources law, stressing its international and comparative aspects. Its chief focus is upon three general subjects: (1) the international regime of biodiversity, (2) the national models of regulation of Protected Areas, endangered species, flora, fauna and wetlands, and (3) the protection of tropical rain forests.
Course website:
http://utdirect.utexas.edu/loreg/clap.WBX?ccyys=20022&class_unique_number=25345
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