An intensive summer studio for graduate students in the "3+ Program." Studio problems in architectural design and communications at the foundation level.
BIOL 5395: Advanced Field Ornithology, Dale Clayton
Birds (Aves) constitute the best known class of organisms on earth. This course presents an overview of the enormous body of information on birds, including topics such as the evolutionary origin and early radiation of birds, molecular systematics, form and function, reproduction and development, population and community ecology, behavior and communication and conservation biology.
A laboratory course with an emphasis on methodologies involved in plant ecology, including vegetation cover, micro-climate, photosynthesis, water relations, and stable isotopes. Course involves individual and group laboratory and computer projects each week. Course includes weekend field trips (desert and forest ecosystems).
GEOL 4550: Field Geology for Geological Engineering Majors, D. Skip Solomon
Field mapping of faults, scarps, mass wasting units, Quaternary deposits, fractures, folds, and bedrock. Preparation of geologic and contour maps, cross sections, stratigraphic, stereonet, and rose diagrams, and a professional technical report. Discontinuities; rock mass classification; rock mass classification in empirical design; estimation of rock mass parameters; empirical design of a tunnel and an engineered slope in rock. Hydrologic characterization and engineering design of a bottom-land wetland.
Introduction to environmental fluid mechanics focusing primarily on micro meteorological processes occurring in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Covers: surface energy budget, basic thermodynamic relationships, basic equations of motion & energy, includiing important simplifications relating to rotation & atmospheric stability turbulence in the ADL (including basic statistics and spectral analysis), ABL similarity theory and dispersion processes. Projects involve utilizing real atmospheric boundary layer data sets.
PRTL 1224: Natural Resources Learning, Federal Lands: Desert Backpacking, John Cederquist
Resource management issues, skills, safety, consumerism, and environmental ethics associated with backpacking in desert lands managed by the BLM. Overnight camping.
