Graduate Bulletin 2011–2012 - Brooklyn College - CUNY

Earth and Environmental Sciences 88
hazards does New York City face? Mandatory weekend field trips
within Manhattan and Brooklyn.
EESC 7030T Global Environmental Change
45 hours lecture; 3 credits
Natural global cycles of water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur;
biogeochemical changes in terrestrial ecosystems, freshwater wetlands,
lakes, rivers, estuaries, and oceans; global climatic changes including
global warming; anthropogenic aspects of global environmental change.
EESC 7040T Geology through Global Arts and Artifacts
22 ½ hours lecture, 45 hours lab; 3 credits
Inquiry approach to formation and properties of minerals, rocks, and
metals. Investigation of real-world applications of earth materials
including those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other
institutions in the New York City area. Laboratory work will include a
minimum of 3 weekend field trips to cultural institutions.
EESC 7041T New York City Water Sources and Cycles
22 ½ hours lecture, 45 hours lab; 3 credits
Principles of hydrology and hydrogeology with emphasis on the New
York City region; history of NYC water supply; water quality; water
treatment; water budgets and cycles; precipitation and storms; several
weekend field trips required, including Prospect Park and Jamaica Bay.
EESC 7042T Geology of New York State
22 ½ hours lecture, 45 hours lab; 3 credits
Field-based approach to geological history of New York State;
Grenville Orogeny, Lower Paleozoic strata and the Taconic Orogeny,
Catskill delta and the Acadian Orogeny, Mesozoic rift basins; 6 days of
field trips across New York State, including overnights.
Prerequisite: a minimum of 6 credits in Geology or Earth and
Environmental Sciences.
EESC 7044T Global Catastrophes
22½ hours lecture, 45 hours lab
Exploration of Earth dynamism and evolution; case histories of major
events that changed the course of earth history such as atmospheric
oxygenation, snowball Earth, Cambrian radiation, Cretaceous-Tertiary
mass extinction, Central American land-bridge, and anthropogenic
catastrophes; several weekend field trips required, including the
American Museum of Natural History and beaches of Coney Island
and/or Jamaica Bay.
Prerequisites: 9 credits in Geology or Earth and Environmental
Sciences.
EESC 7090T Seminars in Geology
3 hours lecture; 3 credits
Series of seven selected topics in geology offered in public lectures in
venues within New York City. Classroom-based discussion of each
topic in the week following each lecture.
Prerequisite: Geology or Earth and Environmental Sciences 7007T
[607T] and 7008T [608T].
EESC 7091T Research Experience for Teachers I:
Immersion
5 seminar, 40 laboratory; one and a half credits
Participation in faculty-led research team; field and lab components;
reflection on transferability to pre-college classroom.
Prerequisite: 12 credits in earth and environmental sciences and
permission of the instructor.
EESC 7092T Research Experience for Teachers II: Research
Proposal
45 seminar; one and a half credits
Seminar approach to development of research proposals; literature
searches; literature reviews.
Prerequisite: EESC 7091 and permission of the instructor
EESC 7093T Research Experience for Teachers III:
Independent Research
Minimum of 9 conference and independent work; 3 credits
Independent research within a faculty-supervised research team; public
presentation of results required; reflection on transferability to
pre-college classroom.
Prerequisite: EESC 7092 and permission of the instructor.
EESC 7105G Earth's Internal Processes
30 hours lecture; 30 hours laboratory; 3 credits
Processes driven by the Earth's internal heat. The structure,
composition, and dynamics of the Earth's crust, mantle, and core; the
methods and reasoning by which these have been deduced; causal
mechanism for plate tectonics.
EESC 7106G Earth's Surface Processes
30 hours lecture; 30 hours laboratory; 3 credits
Composition and dynamics of the hydrosphere and atmosphere;
physical and chemical weathering; origin and evolution of land forms;
human interaction with surface processes.
EESC 7214G Geophysics
45 hours lecture or seminar; 3 credits
Principles of seismology: elastic constants, types of propagation of
elastic waves. Exploration and earthquake seismology; gravity and
magnetic fields of the earth. Development of a comprehensive earth
model based on geophysical data and concepts.
EESC 7300G Paleontology of Invertebrates
30 hours lecture, 15 hours seminar, 30 hours laboratory; 4 credits
Advanced treatment of the functional morphology, systematics,
evolutionary history, paleoecology of invertebrate animals through
geologic time. Laboratory techniques in the use of fossils as primary
data of organic evolution and as indicators of paleoenvironments. (This
course is also open to qualified graduate students in biology.)
EESC 7400G Sedimentology
30 hours lecture, 45 hours laboratory; 3 credits
Dynamics of sedimentation, depositional environments, diagenesis and
lithification. Fabrics, structures, classification of sedimentary rocks.
Mechanical, chemical, microscopic, X-ray laboratory techniques in
sedimentary analysis. Statistical methods. Special problems of clay and
carbonate sedimentation.
EESC 7429G Stratigraphy
30 hours lecture, 30 hours laboratory; 3 credits
Principles of stratigraphy. Stratigraphic record and nomenclature. Faunal
stratigraphy and correlation. Systematic stratigraphy of North America: