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EES 3450 - Concepts in Earth Science I for Early and Middle Childhood Education
Credit Hour(s): 3.5
Introductory survey of geoscience. Rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, geologic time, oceanography and meteorology, planetary science. Lecture is interspersed with hands-on activities intended to reinforce concepts and to provide the students with ideas for teaching their own classes. Students will develop lesson plans on several topics.
Prerequisite(s): (Undergraduate level PHY 2450 Minimum Grade of D or Undergraduate level PHY 2460 Minimum Grade of D) and Undergraduate level CHM 2450 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
Course attributes: Wright State Core
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EES 3460 - Concepts in Earth Science II for Middle Childhood Education
Credit Hour(s): 4
Processes that impact the Earth system such as volcanic eruptions, global climate change and ice ages, and the resulting interactions between air, land, water and life in the Earth system.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 3450 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level BIO 3450 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 3600 - Water, Wastewater, and Solid Waste
Credit Hour(s): 4
Relationship of physical and biotic environments to design and operation of systems and procedures employed in maintenance and promotion of a quality environment. Emphasizes water quality control and methods and management of waste disposal.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 3620 - General Environmental Health
Credit Hour(s): 3
Relationship of physical/chemical/biotic environments to design and operation of systems and procedures employed to maintain and promote healthful human environments. Emphasizes food sanitation, solid waste, institutional/ housing/recreational sanitation, and vector control.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 3660 - Environmental Health Sciences Internship
Credit Hour(s): 6
Internship in an environmental or public health agency or industrial organization, supervised by faculty and a professional environmentalist. Reports and specific assignments determined in cooperation with internship director.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Internship
Course attributes: Department Approval Required
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EES 3680 - Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response
Credit Hour(s): 3
Managing hazardous materials and emergency response in the workplace, at spills, or at hazardous waste sites. Satisfies OSHA training requirement 29 CFR 1910.120.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 3700 - HAZWOPER Refresher
Credit Hour(s): 1
Refresher training covering management of hazardous materials and emergency response in the workplace, at spills, or at hazardous waste sites. Satisfies the requirements for 8 hours of refresher training specified under OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 3990 - Special Problems in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Credit Hour(s): .5 to 5
Research and problems designed for undergraduate students at the junior level. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/unsatisfactory.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Independent Study
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EES 4010 - Topics in Earth and Environmental Science
Credit Hour(s): .5 to 5
Advanced topics of current interest in the earth and environmental sciences. Topics vary but are expected to be appropriate for undergraduate students at the junior or senior level. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/unsatisfactory.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4130 - Map Design with GIS
Credit Hour(s): 2
Theory and applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how to utilize the GIS functions to process field data for the production of a professional map. Geologic mapping will be the primary study case.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2510 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4190 - Paleobiology
Credit Hour(s): 3
Origin of higher taxa, speciation, genealogical relatedness of all life, transformation of species, and macroevolutionary trends, as well as the response over geological time of Earth’s biota to environmental, ecological, and geographical changes. Role of fossil organisms in reconstructing past environments and global paleogeography.
Corequisite(s): EES4190L
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4190L - Paleobiology Laboratory
Credit Hour(s): 0
Required laboratory for EES 4190.
Corequisite(s): EES4190
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
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EES 4200 - Micropaleontology
Credit Hour(s): 4
Origin, evolution, and diversity of microfossil organisms. Use of microfossils as biostratigraphic indicators, and their role in interpreting the geologic history of the Earth. Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using specific microfossil organisms. Microfossils as indicators of metamorphism and their use in locating geologically derived energy resources. Integrated Writing course.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 4190 Minimum Grade of D
Corequisite(s): EES4200L
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
Course attributes: Integrated Writing
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EES 4200L - Micropaleontology Laboratory
Credit Hour(s): 0
Required laboratory for EES 4200.
Corequisite(s): EES4200
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
Course attributes: Integrated Writing
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EES 4210 - Structural Geology and Tectonics
Credit Hour(s): 4
Study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units. Deformational structures such as folds, faults, joints, cleavage, foliation, and lineation and their superposition are used to unravel the history of deformation, and to understand the stress fields that produced the observed strain and structures. Tectonics is the structural evolution of regional patterns of deformation at the scale of mountain ranges.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2550 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4220 - Introduction to Geophysics
Credit Hour(s): 4
Methods and concepts of practical exploration geophysics. Seismic refraction, seismic reflection, gravity methods, electrical methods, and magnetic methods. Requires Saturday field work in the vicinity of the campus.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2150 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4240 - Oceanography
Credit Hour(s): 3
Introduction to the interrelated geology, physics, chemistry, and biology of the ocean.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4250 - Diagenesis of Sedimentary Rocks
Credit Hour(s): 4
Diagenesis of ancient and modern sedimentary rocks. Theory and application of petrographic techniques with emphasis on porosity development and interpretation of diagenetic environments.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4260 - Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar
Credit Hour(s): .5 to 2
Research topics in earth and environmental sciences. Occasional lectures by faculty or invited researchers. Students may give presentations prepared for professional meetings to the seminar for feedback and evaluation. Students present their work in progress.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Seminar
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EES 4270 - Process Geomorphology
Credit Hour(s): 3
Study of the processes that create and modify landforms. Classifications of landforms and what they reveal of past geologic processes and climates.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2510 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4280 - Earth and Environmental Sciences Colloquium
Credit Hour(s): .5
Weekly seminar in which research scientists from within and from outside the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences present their research.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Seminar
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EES 4290 - Remote Sensing of Earth
Credit Hour(s): 3
Remote sensing from an earth science perspective. Students learn to interpret various types of images including stereo air photos, airborne multi-spectral digital images and satellite images. Hands-on digital image processing using industry standard software.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4300 - Environmental Applications of Geographic Information Systems
Credit Hour(s): 4
Concepts, terminology, data models, and analytical functions of Geographic Information Systems. Availability and processing of digital data, application of GIS as a mapping tool, spatial analysis of environmental and geologic problems. Hands-on exercises and a guided mapping project.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4310 - Standard Methods of Biogeochemical Analysis
Credit Hour(s): 2
Principles and practices of analytical procedures and instrumentations critical to biogeochemical research. QA/QC procedures. Use and maintenance of field and laboratory instruments including multi-parameter sonde, spectrophotometer, ion chromatograph, and gas chromatograph.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level CHM 1210 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level CHM 1220 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4320 - Environmental Microbiology
Credit Hour(s): 3
Examines interactions of microorganisms with abiotic resources to affect natural and human-created systems, drawing on tools from microbiology, aquatic chemistry, soil science, limnology and oceanography, analytical chemistry, ecology, geology, and biochemistry.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level CHM 1220 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level BIO 1150 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4330 - Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Credit Hour(s): 3
Examines how elements cycle through and between the biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere, and related environmental issues such as global change, aquatic nutrient pollution, and acid rain.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level BIO 1150 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level CHM 1220 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4340 - Mapping Methods
Credit Hour(s): 2
Basic skills of mapping and measurement with a Brunton compass as applied to field studies in the earth and environmental sciences. Key skills include pace and compass traverse mapping, triangulation, bearing and reverse bearings, measurement of lines and planes.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2550 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4350 - Field Mapping
Credit Hour(s): 2
Geologic phenomena studied and mapped in the field. Mapping techniques are utilized in a series of exercises of increasing complexity. Standard methods are utilized for observing, describing, interpreting and mapping rock units and their structure.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2550 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4360 - Environmental Field Techniques
Credit Hour(s): 2
Principles of monitoring environmental water quality, including lake, river, groundwater, and related issues. Field experiences, include monitoring system design, well design for various monitoring purposes, sampling protocol, sample preservation, and monitoring and sampling at field sites.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4370 - Seismic Reflection Digital Imaging and Processing
Credit Hour(s): 4
Theory and practice of computer processing of seismic reflection data. Deals with seismic data formats, seismic data manipulation, filtering, velocity analysis, stacking and migration, all in both land and marine contexts. Hands-on experience with industry-standard software packages.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 4220 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4380 - Seismic Interpretation
Credit Hour(s): 4
Principles of seismic reflection data interpretation, as well as pitfalls, are examined in the context of both structural styles and stratigraphic settings. The student will use industry-standard software packages.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 4220 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4400 - Glacial Landforms
Credit Hour(s): 2
Field trip to the Finger Lakes (New York to examine the landforms, processes, and deposits associated with Pleistocene continental glaciation, as well as subsequent post-glacial modifications.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
Course attributes: Department Approval Required
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EES 4410 - Physical Geology and Natural History of Ohio
Credit Hour(s): 2
Field trip course examining the landforms, processes, and deposits associated with Pleistocene continental glaciation, as well as subsequent post-glacial terrain modification. The course involves 1 day of lecture/lab and 4 one-day thematic field trips.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2550 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4420 - Paleozoic Vertebrates and Plants
Credit Hour(s): 3
The rise and evolution of Paleozoic vertebrate and plant groups emphasizing the evolution of jawed fishes, early tetrapods, and the “terrestrialization” of Earth. Phylogenetic and molecular analysis.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4430 - Analysis and Prediction of Complex Natural and Human Systems
Credit Hour(s): 3
Quantitative analysis and probabilistic forecasting of the behavior of complex nonlinear natural and human systems. Methods of analysis include fractals to quantify spatial, size, and temporal scaling and chaos to study sensitivity to initial conditions and feedback. Modeling includes self-organization and cellular automata. Systems studied include seismology, chemistry, biochemistry, hydrology, medicine, geography, and coupled human and natural systems.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2550 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4440 - Geophysical Well Log Analysis
Credit Hour(s): 3
Theory, application, and interpretation of geophysical logs emphasizing their use in correlation and determination of porosity, permeability, and fluid content of subsurfance formations.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 3160 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4450 - Petroleum Geology
Credit Hour(s): 3
History and legal aspects of the petroleum business including lease acquisition, assignment of working interests, overriding royalties, etc. Petroleum geology, oil and gas exploration techniques, geology of oil producing regions, well drilling, well log interpretation, enhanced oil and gas recovery, CO2 sequestration, production equipment, oil and gas sales and marketing.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4460 - Sequence Stratigraphy
Credit Hour(s): 3
Examines the mechanisms that produce sea-level change, how sediments respond to changes in sea-level, and how the architecture of basins may be assessed using the sequence stratigraphic model. Topics include the scales of stratigraphic cycles, seismic applications and outcrop scale high resolution sequence stratigraphy.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4470 - Astronomy for K-12 Educators
Credit Hour(s): 2
Introduction to astronomy and the space sciences from the viewpoint of the amateur astronomer. Emphasizes both aesthetic and scientific aspects, and the amateur’s enthusiasm for the subject.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4480 - Plate Tectonics
Credit Hour(s): 3
History and development of the theory of plate tectonics with an emphasis upon the particular needs of the educator.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
Course attributes: Department Approval Required
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EES 4500 - Carbonate Sedimentology and Petrology
Credit Hour(s): 4
Origin, composition, and diagenesis of ancient and modern carbonate rocks. Macroscopic and microscopic identification of rock constituents. Survey of depositional models for modern carbonate environments, emphasizing Floridian and Bahamian carbonates facies.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 3140 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4510 - Effective Scientific Communication
Credit Hour(s): 3
Fundamentals of effective scientific communication in written and conference presentation formats. Basics of good scientific prose, manuscript and figure preparation and submission, poster and platform presentations, job interviews, research proposals, and communication with non-scientists.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4530 - Diagenesis of Sedimentary Rocks
Credit Hour(s): 4
An introduction to the diagenesis of ancient and modern sedimentary rocks. Topics include the theory and application of petrographic techniques with emphasis on porosity development and interpretation of diagenetic environments.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 3140 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4540 - Subsurface Fluid Flow
Credit Hour(s): 3
Physical processes underlying the movement of fluids through the porous subsurface. Transport of particulates and solutes, including contaminants within ground water flow regimes, and the flow of oil, gas and brine in georeservoirs. Emphasis on quantitative problem solving. 3 hours lecture/ 2 hours lab.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level MTH 2300 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level PHY 2410 Minimum Grade of D
Corequisite(s): EES4540L
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4540L - Subsurface Fluid Flow Laboratory
Credit Hour(s): 0
Required laboratory for EES 4540.
Corequisite(s): EES4540
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
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EES 4550 - Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry
Credit Hour(s): 3
Interactions between natural fresh waters and their geologic environments. Includes chemical equilibrium, modeling using PHREEQC, carbonate system, water-rock interactions, sorption isotherms, redox reactions, biologic influences on aqueous geochemistry, and applications of environmental isotopes.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level CHM 1220 Minimum Grade of D and Undergraduate level CHM 1220L Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4560 - Groundwater Contamination
Credit Hour(s): 3
Common anthropogenic contaminant distribution in the groundwater as investigated in recent decades. Emphasizes contaminant degradation mechanisms in detail by physical, chemical and microbial processes, which directly affects the mobility and fate of the contaminants in soil and water.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2510 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4570 - Site Remediation and Management
Credit Hour(s): 3
Physical, chemical, and biological methods used to remediate contamination in soils and groundwater, emphasizing practical applications. Strategies and technologies to address contamination, including the natural attenuation, containment techniques, pump-and-treat, and in situ technologies. Sufficient technical detail so the student can apply basic engineering design equations.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 4560 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4590 - Advanced Aquatic Geochemistry
Credit Hour(s): 3
Fundamentals of biogeochemistry in aquatic systems, emphasizing physical, geological, chemical, and biological interactions in marine and lacustrine environments. Biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, trace metals, gases, energy, and chemical equilibria and rates in natural waters.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level CHM 1210 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4610 - Near-Surface Geophysics
Credit Hour(s): 3
Electrical and geophysical methods most used for near-surface studies, including ground penetrating radar, resistivity, and electromagnetics. Focuses on data acquisition methods, data processing and analysis, as well as report preparation.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 4220 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4620 - Environmental Toxicology
Credit Hour(s): 3
Effects of environmental contaminants on aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Effects on the biochemical and physiological levels are related to impacts on individuals, populations, and ecosystems. Current approaches for assessing environmental toxicity.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4640 - Risk Assessment and Communication
Credit Hour(s): 3
Determination of quantitative risk to humans and the environment. Current regulatory activities, including hazard identification, sampling, data evaluation, exposure assessment, toxicity assessment, and risk characterization.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4660 - OSHA Compliance
Credit Hour(s): 1
Practical application of the theories of safety and health law. Intended for persons having management responsibility for occupational safety and health.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4680 - Environmental Law for Scientists
Credit Hour(s): 3
Common law principles, environmental statutes, implementing regulations, and enforcement.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4700 - Environmental Internship and Career Analysis
Credit Hour(s): 1
Environmental internship, followed by group projects to evaluate current and near-future career opportunities within environmental health science.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
Course attributes: Department Approval Required
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EES 4720 - Epidemiology and Community Health
Credit Hour(s): 3
Communicable and occupational diseases of contemporary importance. Epidemiological investigation, environmental considerations, and control procedures.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4740 - Fundamental Occupational Health and Safety
Credit Hour(s): 3
Accident recognition, evaluation, and control in the work environment regarding hands-on equipment use. Emphasizes methods of inspection, accident investigation, and evaluation of accident programs.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 4750 - Biological Safety
Credit Hour(s): 2
Identification, handling, and containment of potentially hazardous biological materials, including microorganisms and recombinant DNA.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4760 - Air Quality Management
Credit Hour(s): 3
Atmospheric pollutants, dispersion, health and welfare effects, air-quality monitoring, source control, regulation, and indoor air pollution.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 4780 - Environmental Sciences Seminar
Credit Hour(s): 1
Examination of environmental issues and presentation of findings to the class.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in the following Classifications: Junior, Senior.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Seminar
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EES 4960 - Senior Thesis Research
Credit Hour(s): .5 to 5
In consultation with a faculty research advisor, students design a research problem that involves data collection and analysis. Students write a senior thesis in the style of a professional scientific journal. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/unsatisfactory. Integrated Writing course.
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate level EES 2510 Minimum Grade of D
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Independent Study
Course attributes: Integrated Writing
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EES 4990 - Special Problems in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Credit Hour(s): .5 to 5
Research and problems designed for undergraduate students at the senior level. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/unsatisfactory.
Level: Undergraduate
Schedule Type(s): Independent Study
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EES 5600 - Water, Wastewater, and Solid Waste
Credit Hour(s): 4
Relationship of physical and biotic environments to design and operation of systems and procedures employed in maintenance and promotion of a quality, healthful human environment. Emphasis on water quality control and methods and management of waste disposal. Topics covered include regulatory history, regulatory processes, environmental audits, requirements for water and waste generators, transporters, treatment/storage/disposal facilities, and pollution prevention concepts.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 5620 - General Environmental Health
Credit Hour(s): 3
Relationship of physical/chemical/biotic environments to design/operation of systems and procedures employed in maintenance/promotion of quality, healthful human environments. Emphasized: food/dairy sanitation; solid waste; institutional/ housing/recreational sanitation; and vector control.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 5680 - Hazardous Waste Operation & Emergency Response
Credit Hour(s): 3
Covers the operation of managing hazardous materials and emergency response in the workplace or at spills or hazardous waste sites. Satisfies OSHA training requirements No. 29 CFR 1910.120.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 5700 - HAZWOPER Refresher
Credit Hour(s): 1
Refresher training covering management of hazardous materials and emergency response in the workplace or at spills or hazardous waste sites. This course satisfies the requirements for 8 hours of refresher training specified under OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 5990 - Special Problems in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Credit Hour(s): .5 to 5
Research and problems designed for specific needs and talents of students at the graduate level. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/unsatisfactory.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Independent Study
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EES 6010 - Topics in Earth and Environmental Science
Credit Hour(s): .5 to 5
Advanced topics of current interest in the earth and environmental sciences presented in lecture format. Topics vary but are expected to be appropriate for graduate students. May be taken for a letter grade or pass/unsatisfactory.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6050 - Earth Science Concepts for Educators
Credit Hour(s): 3.5
This course is an introductory survey of the earth sciences, from rocks and minerals, through plate tectonics, geologic time, oceanography and meteorology, to planetary science. Lecture is interspersed with hands-on activities intended to reinforce concepts and to provide the students with ideas for teaching their own classes. Students will also develop lesson plans on several topics.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6060 - Earth Systems for Educators
Credit Hour(s): 3.5
The course investigates the processes that impact the Earth system such as volcanic eruptions, global climate change and ice ages and the resulting interactions between air, land, water and life in the Earth system.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6100 - Earth Science Research
Credit Hour(s): 3
Provides research experience to prospective high-school science teachers. Students will use laboratory and library research to give quantitative explanations of natural phenomena.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
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EES 6120 - Earth Materials
Credit Hour(s): 4
This course provides an understanding of the minerals and rocks that make up the solid earth, their significance and uses. Based upon the ‘rock cycle’ the materials studied include the rock-forming minerals as well as their weathered products. The laboratory focuses upon the identification and classification of minerals and rocks in hand specimen.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6140 - Sedimentary Petrology
Credit Hour(s): 4
Optical properties of common minerals. Survey of sedimentary rocks in hand sample, thin section and field occurrence.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6150 - Global Change for Teachers
Credit Hour(s): 3
Introduction to Earth systems, using modules that are based on environmental events such as volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and climate change. An online laboratory component allows students to see how scientists use real time data sets to understand Earth systems.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6160 - Stratigraphy & Sedimentology
Credit Hour(s): 4
Clastic and carbonate sedimentary rocks, their mineralogy, texture, provenance, and classification. Principles, rules, and geologic and geophysical correlation techniques. Fluid flow sediment transport and depositon, sedimentary structures, and depositional environments. Three hours lecture, two hours lab.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate level EES 6120 Minimum Grade of D
Corequisite(s): EES6160L
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6160L - Stratigraphy & Sedimentology Laboratory
Credit Hour(s): 0
Required laboratory for EES 6160.
Corequisite(s): EES6160
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
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EES 6170 - Field & Laboratory Studies of Coastal Processes
Credit Hour(s): 2
The course is primarily designed for in-service educators. It serves as an introduction to the seashore and ocean system, and the range of possibilities for teaching inquiry-based science that this venue offers. Topics include: the origin of ocean basins, sediment, the chemistry and physics of water, tides, the biology of selected sub-environments and oceans and the Earth system. The course is organized around a four-day field trip and a pre and post trip class meeting.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
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EES 6190 - Paleobiology
Credit Hour(s): 3
Paleobiology emphasizes fossils as organisms that provide information; on the origin of higher taxa, speciation, genealogical relatedness of all life, transformation of species, and macroevolutionary trends, as well as the response, over geological time, of Earth’s biota to environmental, ecological, and geographical changes. Paleobiology also emphasizes the role that fossil organisms play in reconstructing past environments and global paleogeography.
Corequisite(s): EES6190L
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6190L - Paleobiology laboratory
Credit Hour(s): 0
Required laboratory for EES 6190.
Corequisite(s): EES6190
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
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EES 6200 - Micropaleontology
Credit Hour(s): 3
Understand the origination, evolution, and diversity of microfossil organisms. The utilization of microfossils are as biostratigraphic indicators, and their role in interpreting the geologic history of the Earth. Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using specific microfossil organisms. Microfossils as indicators of metamorphism
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
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EES 6210 - Structural Geology and Tectonics
Credit Hour(s): 4
Study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units. Deformational structures such as folds, faults, joints, cleavage, foliation, and lineation and their superposition are used to unravel the history of deformation, and ultimately to understand the stress fields that produced the observed strain and structures. Tectonics is the structural evolution of regional patterns of deformation at the scale of mountain ranges. Lecture/lab combined; 4 credit hours
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6220 - Introduction to Geophysics
Credit Hour(s): 4
In Introduction to Geophysics students learn the methods and concepts of practical exploration geophysics. We deal with the five main methods of exploration: seismic refraction, seismic reflection, gravity methods, electrical methods, and magnetic methods. The lectures are put into practice during Saturday field work in the vicinity of the campus to characterize the near surface.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6230 - Introduction to the Ocean
Credit Hour(s): 3
This course covers the fundamental principles and processes of oceanography for students with background in geology but not oceanography. The content is general but the emphasis is toward the needs of Earth Science teachers. The student will need to be able to use the Internet and some basic computer tools such as Word and Excel.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6240 - Oceanography
Credit Hour(s): 3
Introduction to the interrelated geology, physics, chemistry, and biology of the ocean.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6250 - Climate Change
Credit Hour(s): 3
This lecture course deals with the causes and variations of temperature and precipitation patterns over tens to millions of years, the mechanisms that drive them: air pollution, orbital and solar variation, plate tectonics, etc. It includes the nature of evidence for previous climatic conditions and the bases for predictions of future climate change.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6260 - Earth & Environmental Sciences Seminar
Credit Hour(s): .5 to 2
Exposes students to selected research topics by reading and discussing, as a group, journal articles, book chapters, and research abstracts in earth and environmental sciences. Occasional lectures are presented by faculty or invited researchers. Students may give presentations prepared for professional meetings to the seminar for feedback and evaluation. Students conducting research may present their work in progress.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Seminar
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EES 6270 - Process Geomorphology
Credit Hour(s): 3
Study of the processes that create and modify landforms. Classifications of landforms and what they reveal of past geologic processes and climates.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6280 - Earth and Environmental Sciences Colloquium
Credit Hour(s): .5
A weekly seminar in which research scientists from within and from outside the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences present their research. Class normally meets once a week for one hour.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Seminar
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EES 6290 - Remote Sensing of Earth
Credit Hour(s): 3
In Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing students learn the methods and concepts of remote sensing from an Earth Sciences perspective. Students learn to interpret various types of images including stereo air photos, airborne multi-spectral digital images and satellite images. Hands-on digital image processing is conducted using industry standard software.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
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EES 6300 - Environ Apps of GIS
Credit Hour(s): 4
Study of the concepts, terminology, data models, and analytical functions of Geographic Information System; availability and processing of digital data; application of GIS as a mapping tool; spatial analysis of environmental and geologic problems. ESRI’s ArcGIS is used for hands-on exercises and an independent mapping project with comprehensive coverage. Three hours lecture and two hours lab are combined.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6310 - Standard Methods of Biogeochemical Analysis
Credit Hour(s): 2
Principles and practices of analytical procedures and instruments critical to biogeochemical research. QA/QC procedures. Use and maintenance of field and laboratory instruments including multi-parameter sonde, spectrophotometer, ion chromatograph, and gas chromatograph.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6320 - Environmental Microbiology
Credit Hour(s): 3
Examines how microorganisms interact with abiotic resources to affect natural and human-created systems, using a multidisciplinary approach drawing on tools from microbiology, aquatic chemistry, soil science, limnology and oceanography, analytical chemistry, ecology, geology, and biochemistry.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6330 - Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Credit Hour(s): 3
Examines how elements cycle through and between the biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere, and related environmental issues such as global change, aquatic nutrient pollution, and acid rain.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6340 - Mapping Methods
Credit Hour(s): 2
This course teaches the key basic skills of mapping and measurement with a Brunton compass as applied to field studies in the earth and environmental sciences. Key skills include pace & compass traverse mapping, triangulation, bearing and reverse bearings, measurement of lines and planes.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6350 - Field Mapping
Credit Hour(s): 2
Geologic phenomena studied and mapped in the field. Mapping techniques are utilized in a series of areas of increasing complexity. Standard methods are utilized for observing, describing, interpreting and mapping rock units and their structure.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6360 - Environmental Field Techniques
Credit Hour(s): 2
A lecture and field practice course examining the principles of monitoring environmental water quality, including lake, river, groundwater, and related issues. Theoretical considerations are lectured before field practices, which include monitoring system design, well design for various monitoring purposes, sampling protocol, and sample preservation, and monitoring and sampling at field sites, which include groundwater, lake, and river
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lab
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EES 6370 - Seismic Reflection Digital Imaging and Processing
Credit Hour(s): 4
Students learn the theory and practice of computer processing of seismic reflection data. Every step in this technology is taught including seismic data formats, seismic data manipulation, filtering, velocity analysis, stacking and migration. We deal with both land and marine data. The student has hands-on experience with industry-standard software packages.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate level EES 6220 Minimum Grade of D
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture
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EES 6380 - Seismic Interpretation
Credit Hour(s): 4
Students learn the theory and practice of seismic reflection data interpretation. Principles of seismic reflection data interpretation, as well as pitfalls, are examined in the context of both structural styles and stratigraphic settings.
The student will gain hands-on experience with industry standard software packages.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate level EES 6220 Minimum Grade of D
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6400 - Glacial Landforms
Credit Hour(s): 2
This is a field trip course examining the landforms, processes, and deposits associated with Pleistocene continental glaciation, as well as subsequent post-glacial modifications. The trip traverses from Dayton, Ohio, to the Fingerlakes region of central New York.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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EES 6410 - Physical Geology and Natural History of Ohio
Credit Hour(s): 2
This is a field trip course examining the landforms, processes, and deposits associated with Pleistocene continental glaciation, as well as subsequent post-glacial terrain modification. The course involves 1 day of lecture/lab and 4 one-day thematic field trips.
Enrollment Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate, Medical, Professional.
Level: Graduate
Schedule Type(s): Lecture/Lab Combination
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