Prof. W. W. Locke TRAP 2234 Office hours: TuesThurs, 11noon wlockemontana.edu 9946918 Class Homepage

1
Prof. W. W. Locke TRAP 223/4Office hours
Tues/Thurs, 11-noonwlocke_at_montana.edu
994-6918Class HomepageLab meets in TRAP 100
2
Hurricane Gustav
3
iClickers

• Uses
• Attendance (extra-credit points available)
• Discussion
• Lots of opinion in this class (for a science
  class!)
• Pseudo-test questions
• Process
• Register from Current Students web page
• Data is collected regardless of registration

4
Why Environmental Geology?

• Should it be taught elsewhere?
• Ecology
• LRES (Land Resources and Environmental Sciences)
• Engineering
• Geology
• Geography
• Earth surface processes (hazards?) and materials
  (resources) across time.

5
Environmental Sciences
6
Earth Environment (1)
7
Earth Environment (2)
8
Looking Ahead Earth

• Population explosion exponential growth
• Facing limited resources energy, soil, fresh
  water, forests, ocean fisheries, rangelands
• Global environment conflicts and integrated
  resolutions
• Lessons from Easter Island(?) aware of limited
  resources and needs for sustainable global economy

9
Fundamental Concepts
10
Distribution

• Resources
• Fuels
• Minerals
• Water
• Hazards
• Surface
• Subsfc
• Planning

11
Human Population Growth (1)
12
Human Population Growth (2)
13
Human Population Growth (3)
14
Sustainability (1)
15
Sustainability (2)
16
Sustainability (3)
Figure 1.7A
17
(No Transcript)
18
Earths Systems and Changes (1)
19
Earths Systems and Changes (2)
20
Predicting Future Changes
21
Hazardous Earth Processes
22
Risk Assessment
23
Risk Perception
24
ScientificKnowledge andValues (1)
OBSERVATION!
25
Scientific Knowledge and Values (2)
26
Science and Solutions
27
Earth History
28
Table 1.1
Ystone
29
Applied and Critical Thinking