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Welcome to Earth’s Environmental Systems:PhysicalGeography
GEO 110
Instructor: Dan CadolOffice: McGlothlin-Street 216Email: [email protected]: 221-2446Lectures: MWF 9:00-9:50am
in McG-S 20Office hours: Mon 10am-noon;
Tues 1-4pm; or by appointment
Text: Strahler, A. and A. Strahler. 2005. Physical Geography: Science and Systems of the Human Environment. 3rd edition. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
The Earth in General (intro to geography)
Rocks (aka. the Lithosphere)
What do you expect… this is the geology department.
Water (aka. the Hydroshpere)
Air (aka. the Atmosphere)
Life (aka. the Biosphere)
What is geography?
Quantitative• number• length• temperature• time• concentration
Qualitative• description• type• classification• color• relative amount
“We sure are burning a lot of fossil fuels, and it seems like there’s more CO2 in the air than there used to be.”
Optional math review sessions
• Thursday 4-4:45 pm
• Monday 4-4:45 pm
• Wednesday 4-4:45 pm
Room 230 McG-S (subject to change)
Grading
Quizzes 10% (throw away the 2 lowest scores)
Problem sets 20%
Exam 1 15%
Exam 2 20%
Final Exam 25%
Class participation 10%
• maps
• GIS
• remote sensing
• statistics
• mathematical models
• LOGIC!
The Tools of GeographyU
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S 7.5’
Topographic Q
uadrangle
Spider Rock, Canyon de Chelly, AZ
1941 2003
The Tools of Geography
• maps
• GIS
• remote sensing
• statistics
• numerical models
• LOGIC!
Geographic Information Systems
The Tools of Geography
• maps
• GIS
• remote sensing
• statistics
• numerical models
• LOGIC!
Air Photos, Satellite Images, LiDAR
The Tools of Geography
• maps
• GIS
• remote sensing
• statistics
• numerical models
• LOGIC!
Spatial Statistics
The Tools of Geography
• maps
• GIS
• remote sensing
• statistics
• numerical models
• LOGIC!
Numerical Model of Reservoir Filling
• maps
• GIS
• remote sensing
• statistics
• numerical models
• LOGIC!
Which object best Which object best approximates the approximates the
shape of the Earth?shape of the Earth?Frisbee Beachball
The Tools of Geography
Quiz #1 (take home, due Friday)3 simple questions:
• Who are you? (name, year, major)
• What do you hope to learn in Geology 110?
• Where is home?
(This could be where you were born, where you were raised, where you live now, where your folks live... Whatever feels most like home to you.)
Quiz #1 (take home, due Friday)
1 question that requires a tiny amount of effort:• What are the coordinates of home in latitude
and longitude? I grew up in Jackson, WY, USA, so I would say: Decimal degrees: 43.472° N, 110.771° W
or Degrees, minutes, seconds: 43°28′19″ N, 110°46′16″ W