Earth Sciences

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

ERTH 3210/5210 – 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 odd-numbered years, 2023, 2025, 2027, 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 multiple times each semester by multiple faculty.

I also teach these as warranted :

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.

Air Photo and Map InterpretationCreating and Sustaining National Parks

Current Issues in Environmental Science

Dinosaurs, Extinctions, and Environmental Catastrophes

*Earth’s Dynamic Environment

Earth History and Global Change

Engineering and Environmental Geology

*Environmental Geology

Earth Surface Processes

#Geology Field Trip

Glacial Geology

Global Climate Change

#Geoarchaeology

Geoarchaeology Seminar

Geomorphology

*Natural Disasters and Environmental Change

Quaternary Stratigraphy

^Tectonic Geology Seminar