麻豆影院

The objective of this course is to provide you with an introduction to the Earth鈥檚 climate system and patterns of world vegetation. We will emphasize the many linkages and feedbacks between the non-living (abiotic) and living (biotic) components of the earth system. Topics we will cover include radiation, temperature, winds and pressure, the water cycle, climate change, and biomes. This course will prepare you for subsequent, more specialized courses in climatology, hydrology, ecology, and biogeography (ecosystems and cycles). This is a natural science course, and graphs and basic algebra-level math calculations will be used to help understand the concepts covered...Read more 禄

The Arctic plays a key role in the global climate system and is a region in the midst of rapid change, encompassing the land, ocean and the atmosphere. In this course you will learn about the highly varied climates and landscapes that characterize the Arctic, the Arctic Ocean and its floating sea ice cover, the Greenland ice sheet, Arctic tundra, snow and permafrost. The course will also emphasize the dramatic changes that are taking place in the Arctic, including rapid warming and a shrinking sea ice cover, and what these changes mean for the rest of the planet.Read more 禄

In an ever-urbanizing world, having an understanding of the systems that support, maintain, and optimize human conditions will be critical in responding to a changing climate. Through the lens of Resilience, this course looks at the nexus represented by urban settlements: where the demand for productive energy, water, and food systems all come together in support of human endeavors. This course will utilize lecture, discussion, and exercises to explore both the nature of urban systems, and the primary drivers affecting their look and operation in the future. Students will learn from the Instructor and Guest Professionals, to identify and analyze...Read more 禄

鈥楾he environment鈥� figures dominantly in our daily lives and academic pursuits鈥攆rom concerns over climate change and biodiversity loss, to energy policy and agricultural development. Yet we rarely stop to consider how environmental concerns are tied to specific contexts, histories, and power struggles. In this class we do just that, through the lens of political ecology, a growing sub-discipline, which aims to understand the links between people, the environment, and global political economic processes. A political ecology approach highlights the power dynamics involved in knowing, managing, and making claims on the environment, (including those related to gender, class, indignity, development and...Read more 禄

This course is about learning both the principles of hydrology as well as the techniques which can be used to solve hydrologic problems. In practice, hydrologists have to quantify rates at which water is exchanged between the atmosphere, land surface, and the oceans. This often involves processing data and solving sets of equations. It is fairly easy to lose sight of the conceptual part of the problem once you focus on techniques. Thus, one of our other goals is to give you a balanced view of hydrology--one that includes a description of the physical processes as well as a coherent...Read more 禄

This course describes the basic components of the climate system: the atmosphere, ocean, cyrosphere, and lithosphere. We will investigate the basic physical processes that determine climate and the link between the components of the climate system. Emphasis is placed on the hydrologic cycle and its role in climate, climate stability, and global change. The theme throughout this course will be an examination of the importance of climate as one of the major forcing functions in environmental change. Both human-induced and natural climate variability will be covered. See the University Catalog for specifics, recommendations, and prerequisites.Read more 禄

Today, amid White House efforts to defund the US State Department, regional instabilities from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea, and global corporations increasingly involved in issues from poverty to governance to climate change, the politics of international development could not be more urgent. What is the role of international assistance in a world marked by imperialism and inequity? How do actors in the 鈥済lobal South鈥� deal with livelihood and governance issues that crosscut economics, politics, history and tradition? How is 鈥淒evelopment鈥� itself changing as the United State's place in the world is increasingly unsettled? This course uses the...Read more 禄

Geography in its broadest sense is concerned with understanding the world and our place within it. But this 鈥渨orld鈥� is not simply given; it is fashioned. This course is fundamentally concerned with understanding the process of 鈥榳orld-formation鈥� via a meditation on several abstract and yet essential concepts: Power, Place/Space and Culture/Subjectivity . We spend the bulk of the semester developing the conceptual skills to think through these key terms. We then deploy these new ways of (postmodern) critical thinking towards a concerted meditation on the very concrete problems of violence, war, militarism and exceptionalism. In particular we will explore the...Read more 禄

Geography in its broadest sense is concerned with understanding the world and our place within it. But this 鈥渨orld鈥� is not simply given; it is fashioned. This course is fundamentally concerned with understanding the process of 鈥榳orld-formation鈥� via a meditation on several abstract and yet essential concepts: Power, Place/Space and Culture/Subjectivity . We spend the bulk of the semester developing the conceptual skills to think through these key terms. We then deploy these new ways of (postmodern) critical thinking towards a concerted meditation on the very concrete problems of violence, war, militarism and exceptionalism. In particular we will explore the...Read more 禄

China is one of the fastest changing countries on earth. With hundreds of new cities under construction, rapidly accumulating wealth among the middle and upper classes, a precarious environment and resource-base, and rising geopolitical ambitions, understanding a changing China is more important now than ever before. Yet as China鈥檚 influence grows, it seems to become more misunderstood than ever. This course aims to explore China鈥檚 changes, as well as dispel common myths about contemporary China, through the lens of human geography. We explore China鈥檚 diverse environmental and cultural landscapes, its historical geography, and the challenges of rural development, urbanization, territorial...Read more 禄

This course will examine the Geographies of South Asia through four interrelated themes: Territory, Trade, Transportation, and Tributaries. Territory will cover the physical geographic characteristics of South Asia, along with the social and political histories that have transformed South Asian geographies. Trade will focus on the economic geographies of South Asia prior, during, and after colonization. Transportation examines the changing geographies of mobility in South Asia from roads to railroads and airports. Tributaries address the politics of water resources among nations in South Asia and the social/cultural significance of water bodies. We will investigate gender roles and relations as a...Read more 禄

This course will introduce graduate and undergraduate students to major unanswered questions in Earth science and to the analytical tools necessary to undertake exploration of 鈥榖ig data鈥� from a suite of sensors. This course aligns with Earth Lab , a new initiative of the university鈥檚 Grand Challenge efforts to use our expertise in space-based observation and exploration to address our world鈥檚 most pressing problems. For 50 years, CU-麻豆影院 has been a leader in Earth and Space sciences. We have sent instruments to every planet in our solar system and are among the world's leading public universities in producing astronauts. We...Read more 禄

Are you ready to bring your GIS skills up to the next level? This course introduces the theoretical concepts and advanced use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It focuses on the nature of geographic information, the management of geospatial data and available methods for geographic analysis and geoprocessing to perform advanced and complex modeling in a GIS environment. Lectures focus on the theoretical basis of GIScience, the understanding of spatial algorithms and the development of a critical attitude toward GIS operations and model outputs. During lab sessions students will be able to apply the concepts and techniques presented in lectures...Read more 禄

The context, perspective, and scale provided by remote sensing observations have made them an invaluable source of data for understanding the Earth System. In the prerequisite introductory course, Remote Sensing of the Environment (GEOG/GEOL 4093/5093), students learned some of the basic physical principals underlying remote sensing and were introduced to some of the key remote sensing capabilities and how they work. This class is designed to build on that foundation by delving deeper into the physics of remote sensing and examining image analysis techniques for extracting the maximum amount of information from remotely sensed imagery. This course will enable in-depth...Read more 禄

Climate change is projected to alter the physical environment in ways that will affect human health globally, regionally and locally. The choices that society makes to respond to climate change also have health implications. The course will explore the scientific evidence to date of the health impacts associated with a changing climate. We will begin with a brief overview of climate science and will learn about the variety of epidemiological, risk assessment, and statistical methods used to evaluate the impacts of climate change on health locally, regionally, and globally. The public health implications, positive and negative, of efforts to mitigate...Read more 禄

Are you a Geography major or minor who is: Passionate about a question or topic you want to do true in-depth research on by doing fieldwork and/or collecting/analyzing data others collected? Further interested in learning more about the research and writing process, and which kinds of research make sense for which questions? 鈥婥onsidering writing an Honors or Senior Thesis and/or thinking about future graduate studies? This hands-on seminar will introduce you to the craft of research and allow you to explore a question related to a variety of social or natural science subfields. We will give you the tools and...Read more 禄

Did your first GIS class create an interest in learning more advanced skills? Are you getting ready to start an undergraduate or graduate research project that requires spatial modeling and analysis, but you鈥檙e not sure how to get started? This class is for you! You鈥檒l extend skills and principles, gain confidence in your GIS knowledge, and get hands-on technical experience with the full spectrum of GIS modeling. You will learn to implement line-of-sight models, proximity models, design hydrologic and terrain analyses, and work with point interpolation and kriging, dasymetric small area estimation, weighted criteria estimation, sensitivity analysis, and modeling landscape...Read more 禄

The Arctic region plays a key role in regulating global climate and is in the midst of rapid change, with impacts on physical, biological and human systems both within and beyond the region. This comprehensive assessment of the Arctic climate system begins with an overview of the Arctic's basic physical characteristics and climatic features. Attention then turns to the atmospheric energy budget, the atmospheric circulation, the surface energy budget, the hydrologic cycle, and the fascinating interactions between the atmosphere, Arctic Ocean and its sea ice cover. Following an overview of numerical modeling of the Arctic system, we explore Arctic climate...Read more 禄

This course is an all-out, in-depth exploration of why, how, when, and where (from/to) people migrate, especially those moving out of their country of birth. We will delve into several theories that aim to understand the economic, social, environmental, and policy "drivers" of different kinds of migration, and how migration stems (or not) from globalization and development processes. We will pay special attention to the current global refugee crisis as well as to the older question of why people oftentimes migrate "illegally." Finally, we will also look at the ways in which migration changes sending areas and destinations. Among these...Read more 禄

Do you want to enter the job market as a competitive GIS modeler with programming skills? This course will help you get there. It focuses on the extension of geographic information systems (GIS) through programming as well as on the development of algorithms for spatial analysis and information extraction in vector and raster data. We will cover different concepts, principles and techniques of programming that help you to solve a variety of spatial problems in physical and human Geography. You will learn how to work with Python for Geoprocessing in ArcGIS as well as for spatial programming in gridded data...Read more 禄

This course is a quantitative investigation of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that determine the hydrology and hydrochemistry of headwater catchments (watersheds). A watershed is a natural unit of land from which the surface, subsurface and groundwater runoff drain to a common outlet. In this course, the emphasis is on the movement and storage of water, nutrients, and solutes on and in the context of the watershed. This course provides a process-level understanding of watershed biogeochemistry such that students will be able to understand the consequences of our planned and inadvertent human activities on water flow and quality at...Read more 禄

Are you interested in the various processes related to snow in mid-latitude and polar areas? You will learn the physics and chemistry that underlie processes such as snow metamorphism, and apply this knowledge to real situations, including calculation of basin storage of water, runoff rates, acid snow, and avalanche dynamics. The course will cover snow formation in the atmosphere, snow accumulation and distribution, snow metamorphism, avalanche dynamics, snowmelt and runoff, remote sensing of snow properties, and case studies in the Rockies and Sierra Nevada. Prerequisites are a physical geography course or equivalent, and a parametric statistics course.Read more 禄

Are you interested in forest ecology and in getting hands-on field experience for a future career in the environment? Have you ever wondered how trees grow so large and live so long? Are you curious about how disturbances such as bark beetles and fire impact our Colorado forests? If you answered yes, then you should register for Forest Geography! In Forest Geography, we combine a mixture of field trips, in-class labs, critical thinking, and lectures to give you a strong foundation in forest ecology. When possible, we try to hold class outside because it is easier to learn about trees...Read more 禄

This course is an overview of the human dimensions of water: the law, policy, economics, management, and valuation of water in the western United States. The West has a completely different legal structure than the East for the administration of water, and a culture that has developed different methods of management and organization around the role of water in our daily lives. We regularly feature working professionals to broaden the range of discussion as we look at the effects of water use, climate change, population, and agriculture on this fascinating, and important, resource. See the University Catalog for specifics, recommendations,...Read more 禄

This course focuses on the international and cross-national perspectives of political geography. It deals with political, economic and social aspects of international relations from a geographical perspective and examines the post Cold War and post 9-11 world. As such, the course has an integrative character and requires basic knowledge about international affairs. Frequent reading of a substantive newspaper or magazine, such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, the Economist or the BBC News webpage (news.bbc.co.uk) would help significantly to acquire (or develop) knowledge of global locations and current events. The course is designed for the upper-division...Read more 禄

In this course we will discuss various qualitative methodologies and methods for research in human geography. The readings will provide various techniques and tools for collecting qualitative data. We will discuss the connection between theory and methods and how to critically analyze qualitative research. This course includes a practical engagement with data collection in order to help students develop a nuanced understanding of various methods. Research ethics will be discussed including the role and importance of ethics for research with populations in various locations in and outside the United States. This will include developing strategies for critical self-reflection at all...Read more 禄

Audrey Richards, the great British anthropologist, once pointed out that the need to eat is the most basic and important of all human drives. We need food more frequently and more urgently than we need sex. The central place of food in our lives has made food one of the major foci of human existence. How we grow, process, distribute, and consume our food often defines us as a society. In our society, the food system has become the target of enormous critique in the last ten years, and also enormous innovation. How does what we eat define us? What...Read more 禄

鈥淧olitical Islam鈥� dominates national and global news with popular revolutions, dictatorships, terrorism, jihad, suicide bombings and beheadings, perpetually in the headlines. The 鈥淢uslim World鈥� has become synonymous with war, conflict, crisis and violence. As such 鈥淚slam,鈥� particularly after 9-11, has become the definitive 鈥極ther鈥� of America, driving both the logics of the National Security State and the broader public imaginary of the enemy. Therefore a nuanced, methodologically reflexive and critical understanding of this phenomenon is not only topical but also of vital importance for understanding key dynamics of power in the contemporary world. See the University Catalog for specifics, recommendations,...Read more 禄

This is a course for students interested in learning about relationships between environment and development in S. America. We will explore the complexity of development practices and efforts to govern natural resource extraction and use, and how relationships between development and the environment shape the way we think of S. America and its 鈥減lace鈥� in the world. We will use approaches from development geography, political ecology, and Latin American studies coupled with case studies, documentary film, and a series of guest speakers to learn about how development 鈥渨orks鈥� in S. America. The course will expose you to theoretical and applied...Read more 禄