GEOL 106 2007 OUTLINE - Queen's University

Professor Hutchinson GEOLOGY 106 – Winter, 2007
Course Professor:
Dr. Jean Hutchinson
Office: Miller 228
Phone : 533 6183
Email : jhutchin@geol.queensu.ca
Course T.A.s :
An individual Teaching Assistant will be responsible for each one of your assignments. They
will answer any reasonable questions that you have while you are preparing the assignment.
You will be able to contact them via email, but do not assume that the TAs will be available
on Sunday or on the Monday morning before the assignment is due. The same T.A. will
mark the assignment.
Contact information for the specific T.A. will be supplied on each assignment sheet.
Course Materials:
Required – textbook:
Edward A. Keller. 2005. Introduction to Environmental Geology. Third Edition.
NOTE – If you buy a new copy of the textbook from the bookstore, it will be packaged with
the WebCT access code for the assignments.
Note: Previous editions of the textbook are acceptable, as are used copies.
Required – individual WebCT access for the Hazard City assignments
NOTE –buy the individual WebCT access card, if you are buying a used copy of the
textbook, ONLY.
NOTE – You must have a unique and individual WebCT access code, as this will be linked
to your student number for the purpose of receiving assignments and recording grades.
Course Notes:
Copies of the powerpoint presentations WILL NOT be made available. You are encouraged
to take notes.
Notes will be available on the course web site, giving you the readings for each lecture and
providing any relevant web site links.
Course Web Site:
Information will be supplied at the beginning of Week 3.
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Grading Scheme:
Assignments
Mid-term
Final
Assignments:
Grading Scheme
6 @ 4 marks each
20 marks
56 marks
Total
24
20
56
100
• Are due on Mondays. Late marks are calculated at a rate of 20% per day.
• Will be returned on the following Monday.
• Are based on “Hazard City”, which is accessed using your individual WebCT access code.
• Additional research is required for most of the assignments. IMPORTANT - Any information
found from sources other than your textbook must be fully referenced.
• There are 7 assignments for this course. The marks for your top 6 assignments will be used to
calculate your average grade. Your lowest mark will be discarded.
Reference style:
As recommended by the Queen’s University Library web site, please see:
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite8.html
Academic Integrity:
Regulation 12 details Academic Integrity. This can be found at:
http://www.queensu.ca/calendars/artsci/pg532.html
The most frequent issues encountered in previous years in this course are Plagiarism and
Facilitation, which are defined on the web site, as follows:
and
“Plagiarism (presenting another’s ideas or phrasings as one’s own without proper
acknowledgement)
Examples: copying and pasting from the internet, a printed source, or other resource without
proper acknowledgement; copying from another student; using direct quotations or large
sections of paraphrased material in an assignment without appropriate acknowledgement;
submitting the same piece of work in more than one course without the permission of the
instructor(s).”
“Facilitation (enabling another’s breach of academic integrity)
Examples: making information available to another student; knowingly allowing one’s essay
or assignment to be copied by someone else; buying or selling of term papers or assignments
and submitting them as one’s own for the purpose of plagiarism.”
Procedures as outlined in Regulation 12 will be followed, if academic dishonesty is suspected. If a finding of
Academic dishonesty is made, all students involved will receive a grade of 0 for the assignment in question,
at a minimum.
If you work together on an assignment, you must make sure that your write up is unique and
significantly different from each other.
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Schedule for GEOL 106: Environmental Geology and Natural Hazards
Winter 2007
Week of:
1 8-Jan-07
2 15-Jan-07
3 22-Jan-07
4 29-Jan-07
5 5-Feb-07
6 12-Feb-07
7 19-Feb-07
8 26-Feb-07
9 5-Mar-07
10 12-Mar-07
11 19-Mar-07
12 26-Mar-07
13 2-Apr-07
GEOL 106 Lecture Schedule - Subject to change
1 Planet Earth
Introduction
2 as a Dynamic
Introduction to Natural Hazards
3 System
Introduction to Environmental Geology
4 Internal Structure of the Earth
5 Plate Tectonics
6 Natural
Natural Hazard Risk Management
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Geological
Environment:
Definitions,
Processes,
Hazards and
Mitigation
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Landslides and Subsidence
Flooding
Reading Week
19 Tsunami
20 Mid-term Exam Q and A
21 Mid-term Exam
22 Resources:
Water Resources
23 Availability,
24 Pollution,
25 Mitigation and
Mineral Resources
26 Sustainability
27 Review of Mid-Term exam
28
Energy Resources
29
30
31
32
33 Waste Management
34 Future Trends
Geology, Society and the Future
34
36 Course Conclusion
Assignments
Title Due Date
Example Exercise:
Topographic Map
Drawing
Example Exercise:
Sections from
Topographic Maps
1: Earthquake 29-Jan
Damage
Assessment
2: Volcanic
Hazard
Assessment
3: Landslide
Hazard
Assessment
4: Flood
Insurance
Rate Maps
No Assignment
05-Feb
12-Feb
19-Feb
5: Groundwater
12-Mar
Contamination
No Assignment: Time is
provided for you to review
your mid-term
6: Coal 26-Mar
Property
Evaluation
7: Landfill 02-Apr
siting
No Assignment