Sustainable Environmental & Earth Sciences Concentration
Physical and Environmental Science in Action
SustainableEnvironmental & Earth Sciences Concentration
Climatology, geomorphology, biogeography, arctic and alpine systems, hydrology, and global change
Physical geography integrates and inter-relates landforms, water, soils, climate, and vegetation as the major natural elements of the environment.Ìý The focus of physical geography is on the zone of the land, ocean, and atmosphere containing most of the world’s organic life.Ìý Physical geography not only describes natural phenomena near the surface of the earth but, more importantly, seeks explanations of how and why the physical and biological processes act as they do.Ìý Physical geography includes processes studied in other physical and natural sciences such as meteorology, geology, biology, and soil science, however, physical geography is more than a mere composite of these other sciences.Ìý It takes a comprehensive approach to the processes of the natural environment, often with an emphasis on human modifications to the environment.Ìý
Courses in this Concentration
Lower Division
- : Our Changing Planet: Climate and Vegetation
- : Our Changing Planet: Landscapes and Water
- : Climate Change Geographies
- : Visualizing Climate Change
- : Intro to the Arctic Environment
- : Skiing and Snowboarding Geographies
Methods:
- : Statistics and Geographic Data
- : Advanced Quantitative Method: Spatial Data
- : Research Seminar
Upper Division
- : Mountain Geosystems
- : Climate & Weather Observations
- : Biogeography
- : Water Cycle
- : Principles of Climate
- : Remote Sensing of the Environment
- : Biometeorology
- : GIS: Spatial Modeling
- : Earth Surface Processes
- : Fluvial Geomorphology
- : Arctic Climate
- : Forest Geography
- : Earth Analytics Data Science Bootcamp