printer friendly pageGEOPHYS 60N: Man versus Nature: Coping with Disasters Using Space Technology (EE 60N)
Preference to freshman. Natural hazards, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, and fires, and how they affect people and society; great disasters such as asteroid impacts that periodically obliterate many species of life. Scientific issues, political and social consequences, costs of disaster mitigation, and how scientific knowledge affects policy. How spaceborne imaging technology makes it possible to respond quickly and mitigate consequences; how it is applied to natural disasters; and remote sensing data manipulation and analysis. GER:DB-EngrAppSci
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBEngrAppSci
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Zebker, H. (PI)
GEOPHYS 100: Directed Reading
(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-2
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
GEOPHYS 110: Earth on the Edge: Introduction to Geophysics
Introduction to the foundations of contemporary geophysics. Topics drawn from four broad themes in: whole Earth geodynamics, geohazards, natural resources, and environment/sustainability. In each case the focus is on how the interpretation of a variety of geophysical measurements (e.g., gravity, seismology, heat flow, magnetism, electromagnetics, and geodesy) can be used to provide fundamental insight into the behavior of the Earth's complex geosystems. Prerequisite:
CME 100 or
MATH 51, or co-registration in either. Offered every year, autumn quarter.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBNatSci
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
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Lawrence, K. (PI)
GEOPHYS 112: Exploring Geosciences with MATLAB
How to use MATLAB as a tool for research and technical computing, including 2-D and 3-D visualization features, numerical capabilities, and toolboxes. Practical skills in areas such as data analysis, regressions, optimization, spectral analysis, differential equations, image analysis, computational statistics, and Monte Carlo simulations. Emphasis is on scientific and engineering applications. Offered every year, autumn quarter.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 1-3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Mukerji, T. (PI)
GEOPHYS 130: Introductory Seismology
Introduction to seismology including: elasticity and the wave equation, P, S, and surface waves, dispersion, ray theory, reflection and transmission of seismic waves, seismic imaging, large-scale Earth structure, earthquake location, earthquake statistics and forecasting, magnitude scales, seismic source theory. Offered every year, Autumn quarter. (Beroza, G)
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBNatSci
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
GEOPHYS 160: Introduction to SES Computing (ISESC)
For beginning undergraduates and graduate students in the School of Earth Sciences. Computer concepts. What are computers and networks, and how do they work? Web page authoring. Introduction to scientific programming. Free computing tools for plotting data. Computer resources available to students in the school. An online repository of source codes useful for and developed by SES students, faculty, and staff. Specialists from around the school provide practical instruction and concrete examples of how to achieve basic computing needs. 2 units requires a class project: code development to be uploaded to the course's code repository. Offered every year, autumn quarter.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 2-3
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Grading: Satisfactory/No Credit
Instructors:
Lawrence, J. (PI)
GEOPHYS 170: Global Tectonics
The architecture of the Earth's crust; regional assembling of structural or deformational features and their relationship, origin and evolution. The plate-tectonic cycle: rifting, passive margins, sea-floor spreading, subduction zones, and collisions. Case studies.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Klemperer, S. (PI)
GEOPHYS 196: Undergraduate Research in Geophysics
Field-, lab-, or computer-based. Faculty supervision. Written reports.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-10
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
;
Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Dunham, E. (PI)
;
Harris, J. (PI)
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Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
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Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Dunham, E. (PI)
;
Harris, J. (PI)
;
Klemperer, S. (PI)
;
Knight, R. (PI)
;
Lawrence, J. (PI)
;
Mavko, G. (PI)
;
Segall, P. (PI)
;
Sleep, N. (PI)
;
Zebker, H. (PI)
;
Zoback, M. (PI)
GEOPHYS 197: Senior Thesis in Geophysics
For seniors writing a thesis based on Geophysics research in 196 or as a summer research fellow.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 3-5
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
;
Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Dunham, E. (PI)
;
Harris, J. (PI)
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Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
;
Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Dunham, E. (PI)
;
Harris, J. (PI)
;
Klemperer, S. (PI)
;
Knight, R. (PI)
;
Lawrence, J. (PI)
;
Mavko, G. (PI)
;
Segall, P. (PI)
;
Sleep, N. (PI)
;
Zebker, H. (PI)
;
Zoback, M. (PI)
GEOPHYS 198: Honors Program
Experimental, observational, or theoretical honors project and thesis in geophysics under supervision of a faculty member. Students who elect to do an honors thesis should begin planning it no later than Winter Quarter of the junior year. Prerequisites: department approval.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 1-3
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
;
Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Dunham, E. (PI)
;
Dvorkin, J. (PI)
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Instructors:
Beroza, G. (PI)
;
Biondi, B. (PI)
;
Dunham, E. (PI)
;
Dvorkin, J. (PI)
;
Harris, J. (PI)
;
Klemperer, S. (PI)
;
Knight, R. (PI)
;
Lawrence, J. (PI)
;
Mavko, G. (PI)
;
Segall, P. (PI)
;
Sleep, N. (PI)
;
Zebker, H. (PI)
;
Zoback, M. (PI)
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