Earth System Science
Earth system science focuses on natural processes in the present and past, and considers the human components.
CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES:
- land use / land cover change
- snow hydrology
- biogeography
- geomorphology
- fire and ecosystem disturbance
- glaciology
- natural hazard
assessment
- invasive plants
PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES-QUATERNARY STUDIES:
- Disturbance history with a focus on bark beetles and fire
- Paleoclimatology, reconstruction from terrestrial sediments, packrat middens, ice cores, and marine sediments
- Paleoecology,
with emphasis on reconstructing past vegetation from plant macrofossils
and pollen
- Lake basin histories
- Paleoglacial/paleoperiglacial
studies, also with implications for paleoclimate reconstruction
- Neotectonic studies,
with special emphasis on assessments of current and future seismic
hazards
- Geoarchaeology,
the application of Quaternary studies to facilitate the reconstruction
of human history
- Landscape analysis
Students who are interested in societal applications of environmental
geography are advised to take appropriate courses in urban planning, urban
and technological hazards, economics, political science, law, civil engineering,
and other relevant disciplines. In all cases, students majoring in environmental
geography should work closely with a faculty advisor.
Faculty contacts:
Research:
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