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GEOS-3014: Environmental Geosciences

Description: The roles of geology and geophysics in defining and monitoring the natural environment, with special application to interactions between humans and the geologic environment. Both descriptive treatment and quantitative concepts related to environmental processes involving the solid earth and earths surface, with emphasis on geologic hazards (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and slope failures, flooding, groundwater problems, mineral and rock dusts).

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 18

Average GPA: 3.33 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 38.59%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.85%

James D Rimstidt200844.8%38.8%10.9%2.8%2.8%0.0%3.204
Robert J Tracy201846.4%38.1%12.3%1.2%0.8%1.1%3.288
Manoochehr Shirzaei202471.5%21.3%4.9%0.0%2.3%0.0%3.544
Neil E Johnson201620.9%50.0%16.6%0.0%6.3%6.3%2.861
John A Chermak202083.6%16.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.841

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