Satellite photo of Alaskan glacier

Earth Sciences


In the Department of Earth Sciences, I regularly teach two undergraduate courses listed in the  UConn Course Catalog.

  • ERTH 4210/5210 – Glacial Processes and Materials.  This is an upper division course cross-listed between undergraduate and graduate levels.  These levels share common lectures, field trips, and labs, but differ in assessments and special meetings.   The course is taught every other fall semester in even years, 2022, 2024, 2026, etc.  This course lies within my original specialty. I’ve taught some version of it since 1979.
  • ERTH 2050W – Communicating Earth and Environmental Science.  This is our department’s “W” course, taught to a small group of 19 students with the goal of learning science communication.  I designed and piloted the course in Fall 2021.  My default is to rotate this on an every other spring semester in odd years, 2023, 2025, etc.  It is our most frequently taught course beyond the introductory level, with sufficient demand for twice per semester.

If warranted, I also teach

  • ERTH 3020 – Earth Surface Processes, one of our core undergraduate courses.  This is a combo of geomorphology and catchment hydrology. I designed this course in the early 2000s and taught it to as many as 75 students.
  • ERTH 2500 – Earth System Science, our gateway to the major, currently not being offered.  I designed and piloted this course in 2018.

Photo:  NASA aerial false-color image of the Malaspina Glacier, Alaska, which provides a good scale-analog for the lobes of the Laurentide Ice Sheet responsible for much of the southern New England landscape.