Courses

* EAS 109 The Dynamic Earth.

This course covers the formation and development of the solid earth, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. The course studies the whole Earth as a system of many interacting parts and focuses on the changes within and between these parts. This course is intended for all majors in earth and atmospheric sciences.

http://www.eas.purdue.edu/eas109/

* EAS 420 Global Change Modeling Open to all science, agriculture, and environmental majors. Prerequisite: one semester each of chemistry and calculus.

Understanding, monitoring, and modeling global environmental change. Each session examines the response of the interrelated earth systems to differ-ent geological, ecological, atmospheric, oceanic, or societal impacts. Topics include global warming, major biogeochemical cycles, atmospheric ozone, coevolution of life and climate, asteroid impacts, and ecological disruptions. The laboratory uses object-oriented modeling software and current NASA satellite data. No prior knowledge of computer programming is required. Professors Ogg and Spacie.

(* taught by ESSE PI)