COURSES   Don Barber

I teach courses dealing with sediments, geomorphology, coastlines, the deep sea, global change and human interactions with the environment. My focus is usually on relatively short spans of geologic time, e.g., the hours, weeks and years over which waves change the shape of beaches, or the thousands of years it took for ice sheets to melt after the last ice age. Specific courses include:

GEOL 103	Earth Systems and the Environment
GEOL 205	Sedimentary Materials and Environments
GEOL 209	Natural Hazards
GEOL 270	Geoarchaeology
GEOL 312	Quaternary Geology and Climate Change
GEOL 314	Marine Geology
GEOL 397	Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies
GEOL 403	Supervised Research (students preparing for the senior thesis should download this .pdf info sheet)

One of my general teaching goals is to enhance cross-disciplinary experiences for students. The subject matter of most of my courses dictates that interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches are natural components.

At Bryn Mawr, one of the ways we have built connections among environmental science courses in different departments has been to incorporate field studies of a local pond into the lab for each course. (see my 2004 GSA abstract about this, or additional information on field exercises and interdisciplinary pedagogy).

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