GE694 Earth Systems Seminar
Fall, 2009
Physical Systems
Mondays, 5:00 - 7:00 pm,
Devlin 220
Thursdays, 9:00 – 9:50
am, Devlin 220
Prof.
John E. Ebel, Devlin 309, Office hours Tues. and Thurs. 3:00-4:00 pm
Prof. John E.
Ebel, Dept. of Geol. and Geophys., Devlin Hall 309 (617-552-3399) and Weston
Observatory (617-552-8319), Electronic Mail: ebel@bc.edu
Course
Syllabus: GE694 Syllabus 2009
Reading assignments for Sept. 10 class
Quinn, Helen, “What is Science?”, Physics Today, July, 2009, pp. 8-9.
Kastens, K.A.,
C.A. Manduca, C. Cervato, R. Frodeman, C. Goodwin, L.S. Liben, D.W. Mogik, T.C.
Spangler, N.A. Stillings, and S. Titus,
“How Geoscientists Think and Learn”,
EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, vol. 90, no. 31, 4
August 2009, pp. 265-266.
Reading assignments for Sept. 24 class
Geyer, W.R., “The Importance of Suppression of Turbulence by
Stratification on the Estuarine Turbidity Maximum” Estuaries, vol. 16, no.
1, pp. 113-125, March, 1993.
Principles and Processes of Sediment Transport
Reading assignments for Nov. 2 class
Dunne, T., “Formation and Controls of Channel Networks”, Progress
in Physical Geography, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 211-239, 1980.
Perron, J.T.,
J.W. Kirchner, and W.E. Dietrich, “Formation of
Evenly Spaced Ridges and Valleys”, Nature, vol. 460, pp. 502-505, 23 July
2009.
Perron, J.T., “Making the Paper”, Nature, vol. 460,
p. 434, 23 July 2009.
Whipple, K.X.,
“Landscape Texture Set to Scale”,
Nature, vol. 460, pp. 468-469, 23 July 2009.
Powerpoints of Lectures