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EPS 22: The Fluid Earth Oceans, Atmosphere, Climate & Environment

The Fluid Earth Oceans, Atmosphere, Climate & Environment Peter Huybers Introduces students to the fluid Earth, emphasizing Earth's weather and climate, the carbon cycle, and global environmental change. Course begins with the physical concepts necessary...

EPS 51: Introduction to Planetary Materials and Earth Resources

Introduction to Planetary Materials and Earth Resources Stein Jacobsen A comprehensive introduction to how the principles of mineralogy, phase equilibria, and the compositions of terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials are used to understand the...

EPS 269r. Topics in Crustal Dynamics

Topics in Crustal Dynamics Brendan J. Meade and John H. Shaw Research seminar on current problems of tectonics, faulting, and earthquake occurrence at the Pacific-North America plate boundary in California. Emphasis on the identification of extant...

EPS 246r. Earth Accretion and Early Earth History

Earth Accretion and Early Earth History Sujoy Mukhopadhyay Research seminar on Earth accretion and early Earth history (pre-Archean) from a geochemical perspective. Students will read and present journal articles and take turns in leading the discussions...

EPS 245r. Petrological Approaches to Understanding the Earth’s System

Petrological Approaches to Understanding the Earth's System Charles H. Langmuir The course studies the igneous processes at spreading centers, convergent margins and hot spots, and explores their influences on mantle, crust, ocean and atmosphere and the...

EPS 207r: Geochemical Oceanography

Geochemical Oceanography Daniel P. Schrag and David T. Johnston Topics in low-temperature geochemistry, oceanography, and climatology will be discussed. Students will read and present journal articles on relevant topics, and will rotate responsibility for...

EPS 205: Geophysics: A Primer

Geophysics: A Primer Jerry X. Mitrovica An introductory treatment of solid Earth geophysics for graduate students in all EPS and SEAS disciplines. The course will cover a sampling of topics that all Earth scientists should have knowledge of, whether to...

EPS 201. Physics of the Earth’s Interior

Physics of the Earth’s Interior Richard J. O’Connell The properties and processes of the solid Earth: Continuum mechanics; structure and state of the Earth’s interior; gravity and the geoid; viscous creep and mantle flow; rotational dynamics; heat...

EPS 146: Ocean Ridges and the Earth System

Ocean Ridges and the Earth System Charles H. Langmuir Course will present our current knowledge of the ocean ridge system where two thirds of Earth's crust is continually being created. We will examine the progressive understanding of ocean ridges from a...

E-PSCI 145: Earth and Planetary Sciences 145

Introduction to Igneous Petrology and Petrogenesis Charles H. Langmuir How igneous rocks form and reveal the processes and fluxes involved in the circulation of the solid Earth. The course begins with the essential elements of igneous petrology-rock...

EPS 202: Mechanics in Earth and Environmental Science

Mechanics in Earth and Environmental Science James R. Rice Introduction to the mechanics of fluids and solids, organized around earth and environmental phenomena. Conservation laws, stress, deformation and flow. Inviscid fluids and ocean gravity waves...

EPS 238: Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer of Planetary Atmospheres

Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer of Planetary Atmospheres Kelly V. Chance Absorption, emission, and scattering of planetary atmospheres, emphasizing Earth. Atmospheric spectroscopic properties for various measurement geometries. Quantitative...