Supplementary Reading and Links

U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Guide to Protists (actually, all eukaryotes) Just what are those sediments comprised of anyway?
Life on Earth
Phylogeny The links above are part of their phylogeny exhibit.
Bacteria While you're at it, find Stromatolites: the oldest fossilized lifeform.

Greenhouse Effect, Atmospheric Circulation, and Oceanic Circulation

NOVA--Cracking the Ice Age:
NOVA--Cracking the Ice Age: Tibetan Plateau and Atmospheric Circulation John Kutzbach (GCM modeller) is from Wisconsin!
NOVA--Cracking the Ice Age: The Greenhouse Effect
NOVA--Cracking the Ice Age: Pangea Continental positions play a role. Remember the Gondwanan glaciation of 300 Ma? Gondwanaland was the southern part of Pangea including the modern continents of South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica (the heart of it all!), and the Indian subcontinent.
NOVA--Cracking the Ice Age: Resources
Scientific American Frontiers--Panama Don't you think we need the Isthsmus of Panama in order to have the Gulf Stream and Wally Broecker's conveyor belt?!

Milankovitch Cycles

What is a year? Time is relative!
Tropical year What we think of when we think of a year.
Sidereal Day
Converting between Solar and Sidereal Days
Precession Yeah, so his demonstration of precession is better than my gyroscope demonstration. But can he juggle!?

Fall Semester, 1999

Geology 284, Environmental Geology

Course Description

Syllabus, Review Sheets, Test Scores, and Grades

Fall 1999 Syllabus

Review of Physics and Chemistry

Review of physics and chemistry

Dr. Linus Pauling Dr. "Ionic versus Covalent bond", and the American, 1954 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry!
Linus Pauling and the Peace Movement The only winner of both a science Nobel and the Nobel Peace prize, the U.S. government had to reinstate his passport for Pauling to travel to Sweden to accept the prize. "Dr. Vitamin C" wrote much about acquired immunodeficiency diseases, suggesting a possible link to the atmospheric nuclear testing of the 1950's.
As long as we're on the subject of Nobel Prize winners, here are complete lists for physics and chemistry:
Physics Nobels
Chemistry Nobels
Periodic Table An excellent resource, it even has ground state electronic configurations!
Celsius temperature scale Hooray for the Swedes, Anders Celsius and Svante August Arrhenius!

Minerals and Rocks

The tetrahedral bonding angle This is a little advanced, but is good reading for chemistry and mineralogy students who have had some vector calculus.

The Earth in Space (and the rest of space)

Scientific Revolution Interesting saga of the struggle to explain the orbits of planets, from Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler, to Newton. Stephen Jay Gould, as a recent William W. Cook lecturer here at the University of Michigan, called the Copernican revolution the first great intellectual revolution, which he defines as an event that knocks humans off their pedestal of self-importance. The second intellectual revolution is, of course, evolution. Many hold that the third will be the discovery of extra-terrestrial life.
Ptolemy Just because you're wrong doesn't mean you didn't make a great and significant contribution!
Views of the Solar System Enjoy that night sky!!!

Volcanoes

Note to Dan Quayle: The singular of "volcanoes" is "volcano"!
Santorini (Thera), Greece The Thera eruption is featured prominently in an interesting thesis by Princeton psychologist Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. In the book, Jaynes asserts that human consciousness my have changed from a bicameral form, one with disconnect between the left and right sides of the brain, to the modern form, where the left and right side of the brain form an integrated consciousness. Prior to the eruption of Thera, humans got along bicamerally, perceiving admonitions from the (for right handed people) Wernicke area of the right brain as an auditory hallucination in the left brain, received across the anterior commissure between the two hemispheres. The eruption of Thera, estimated by some at 1470 B.C. and others at 1180 B.C., touched off a period of mass nomadicism and conquest...consciousness changed from the stress and reorganization of societies, then spread worldwide. Jaynes' observations come from archeaology and literature of antiquity. Sure the hypothesis is a stretch (why does "consciousness" and "higher thought" always come from dead Greeks and Germans), but it is a fun read from a renaissance man. And hey, if a volcano can do all that, Wow!

Structure of the Earth

Mt. Everest, Nepal Our highest mountain! It's amazing that the summit bedrock is marine limestone, thrust to the highest elevation from a marine sea that existed before India rammed Asia giving us the Himalayas.
Challenger Deep, Marianas Trench Our deepest trench! Oh what subduction will do!

Mass Wasting

USGS El Nino The effect of El Nino rains on the mass wasting processes on the Pacific coast, including slope failures, sediment flows, and coastline retreat.

Rivers and Groundwater

The Campaign for Vicksburg A meander changes history (almost)!
Grant's Canal How the meander won the war (almost)!
Map of Vicksburg Note location of Grant's Canal
A Civil Action Read the book by Jonathan Harr before the movie destroys it, but before you rail on George Pinder, the first hydrogeologist ever portrayed in a movie, remember that his assessment of the situation was correct even if he did overlook induced infiltration from the stream. He also wrote one of the first finite difference groundwater flow models, the Trescott-Pinder-Larson model, 1976. Of course Tom Prickett and Carl Lonnquist had them beat by 5 years with PLASM (1971).
See "Geology 477, Hydrogeology", "Dissertation", and "Geology and Hydrogeology" links below

Coastal Systems

USGS El Nino The effect of El Nino rains on the mass wasting processes on the Pacific coast, including slope failures, sediment flows, and coastline retreat.
Tides and Storm Surges Informative graphs and discussion by NOAA
Buoy 51001 and Maui's Jaws Surf's Up?
National Geographic Read 11/98's article on Maui's Jaws (Am I hearing shark music?).
The Physics of Jaws Wave Refraction!!
Maui's Jaws Book Gnarly Jaws!

Energy and Mineral Resources

"With, without, and who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about."
--Roger Waters, from the album Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Chicago Board of Trade Adds Recyclables to its Commodities Exchange

Waste Management

"What comes out of a factory door is private property. What comes out of a factory smokestack is the public's problem."
Author unknown. If you know the author Hoaglund@umich.edu Leave a message!
Chicago Board of Trade Adds Recyclables to its Commodities Exchange

Winter Semester, 1999

Geology 531, Groundwater Flow Modelling

Review of physics and chemistry

531 Course Description

The Mathematics of Basic Pumping Well Hydraulics

The Groundwater Flow Equations

Wellhead Protection Slides

Fall Semester, 1998

Geology 477, Hydrogeology

Review of physics and chemistry

A Civil Action Read the book by Jonathan Harr before the movie destroys it, but before you rail on George Pinder, the first hydrogeologist ever portrayed in a movie, remember that his assessment of the situation was correct even if he did overlook induced infiltration from the stream. He also wrote one of the first finite difference groundwater flow models, the Trescott-Pinder-Larson model, 1976. Of course Tom Prickett and Carl Lonnquist had them beat by 5 years with PLASM (1971).
Relative Humidity and Atmospheric Moisture The evaporation of evapotranspiration!

The Mathematics of Basic Pumping Well Hydraulics
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The Groundwater Flow Equations

Wellhead Protection Slides

As a hydrogeologist with academic, government, and business experience in the sciences and the environment, I find the mix of business and environment ironic when one remembers that ...
In the sixties (1960's) an environmentalist was considered a "communist".
In the seventies (1970's) an environmentalist was called a "tree hugger".
In the eighties (1980's) an environmentalist was told to "shut up and dance".
In the nineties (1990's) an environmentalist was simply dismissed as "granola".

In the naughties (2000's) an environmentalist is ... Submit your suggestion with its definition and/or cast your vote

Top responses to date:

unemployed (Votes = 2)
a migrant worker (Votes = 1)
unemployed ... but rich on personality (Votes = 1)
a presidential candidate (Votes = 1)
President of the United States (Votes =1)

Supplementary Reading and Links

for my Courses at The Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

Winter Semester, 2000

Geology 104, Ice Ages: Past and Future

Syllabus, Definitions, Announcement Postings, Review Sheets, Test Scores, and Grades

Lecture Slides

Ice Sheets and Ice Caps

Glacier flow (and my salute to the RV Lance)

What if the Antarctic ice sheets melt?

Ice Cores

Ocean Sediment Cores

Greenhouse Effect, Atmospheric Circulation, and Oceanic Circulation

Milankovitch Cycles

Fall Semester, 1999

Geology 284, Environmental Geology

Syllabus, Review Sheets, Test Scores, and Grades

Review of Physics and Chemistry

Minerals and Rocks

The Earth in Space (and the rest of space)

Volcanoes

Structure of the Earth

Mass Wasting

Rivers and Groundwater

Coastal Systems

Energy and Mineral Resources

Waste Management

Winter Semester, 1999

Geology 531, Groundwater Flow Modelling

Geology 477, Hydrogeology