Geology 103   --   Bryn Mawr College

EARTH SYSTEMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT


General Info: contacts, grading, tests


Download, view and print the 2005 syllabus (.pdf). NOTE: The 2007 syllabus may differ!

Download sample lecture images (.pdf file size). Again, Spring 2007 lecture slides will probably differ!

1 Introduction (3 Mb)

2 Sustainability (2.5 Mb)

3 Systems, Energy (26 Mb!)

4 Atmos. Circulation (0.5 Mb)

5 Atmos Circul, pt. 2 (2.5 Mb)

6 Coriolis & Weather (7 Mb)

7 Hydrologic Cycle (18 Mb!)

8 Surface Ocean (2.6 Mb)

9 Ocean Upwelling (1.5 Mb)

10 ENSO (2 Mb)

11 Deep Oc. Circul. (1.6 Mb)

12 Solid Earth 1 (1 Mb)

13 Solid Earth 2 (0.7 Mb)

14 Solid Earth 3 (1.6 Mb)

15 Ice Age Climate (0.9 Mb)

16 CO2 cycles changing (1 Mb)

17 Climate change now (1 Mb)

18 Field Trip, Coal, etc. (1.5 Mb)

Miscellaneous Info / Help Links :

  • Environmental Studies Concentrators and others can join the "Enviro-News" email listserver to receive updates about environmental talks, issues and opportunities at Bryn Mawr. Visit Enviro-News Info page and subscribe yourself to the list!
  • New and recent satellite and space shuttle images.

View Earth from Moon

 

Additional information links on course topics:

  • Solid Earth: the Lithosphere

    • Lecture notes about Earth's interior.

  • Fluid Earth: the Atmosphere
      1. About Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis
      2. The ozone hole
      3. Greenhouse gases
      4. Svante Arrhenius and the greenhouse gas idea
      5. Why isn't Earth as hot as an oven?
      6. emissions - US anthropogenic carbon dioxide
      7. Solar radiation and surface temperature:
    • A few weather websites:

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