T: text sections or chapters to be read
- worksheets provided in lab
- The Math You Need, When You Need It
Welcome
T1: Philosophy & Fundamental Concepts
Exam 1 (65 pts, due 9/11)
Maps (15 pts.)
T1: Philosophy & Fundamental Concepts
Incorporating Indigenous Knowldege
- U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science
- Tapestry Institute: Weaving Indigenous Knowledge to Life
- Ways of Knowing (be sure to read the Tornado Example)
- In Service to the Land: Indigenous Research Methods in the Natural Sciences
- The Mythic Roots of Western Culture’s Alienation from Nature
- Solar Mandates in Sacred Groves
- Water Wisdom: The Indigenous Scientists Walking In Two Worlds
- Network Connects Indigenous Knowledges in the Arctic and U.S. Southwest
- How Indigenous Knowledge Is Changing Natural Hazard Mitigation
- Indigenous knowledge is a form of science — don’t ignore it
- Studying Volcanoes through Myths, Legends, & Other Unconventional Data
- The Moana Project Braids Tradition and Science for a More Sustainable Ocean
- What is Indigenous knowledge?: Science Direct
T3: Minerals & Rocks
Minerals (15 pts.)
(off Mon)
T3: Minerals & Rocks
Rocks (15 pts.)
T2: Internal Structure of the Earth & Plate Tectonics
(sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.6, & 2.7; p. 41-55, p. 63-69; also, section 3.9; p. 102-106)
Exam 1 Due Thu 9/11 @ 11:59 pm
T5: Natural Hazards: An Overview
- The natural disaster economist (23-minute podcast episode)
- CLaSH - Center for Land Surface Hazards
- Could updated building codes reduce risks from future storms? Some experts say yes
- Sensing the Sounds from Earth’s Hazardous Environments
Exam 2 (100 pts, due Fri 10/10)
Introduction to Geologic Hazards (15 pts.)
T9: Rivers & Flooding
- FEMA Flood Maps
- Topographic Wetness Index mapping
- Risk Factor (provides estimates for flood, wildfire, and extreme heat risk)
- National Water Prediction Service
- Keeping Humans in the Loop Improves Flood Forecasting
- Flooding is Illinois’ Most Threatening Natural Disaster. Are We Prepared?
- Illinois Issues: Urban Flooding
- Outdated FEMA Flood Maps Don't Account For Climate Change
- Natural Floodplains Are Quickly Vanishing
- How government policy exacerbates hurricanes like Harvey
- What is a nuisence flood, exactly?
- European Colonists Dramatically Increased North American Erosion Rates
- 2022 flooding in Pakistan
- East Kentucky's cultural cornerstone is trying to salvage its archives after floods
- Hurricane Harvey Filled Houston with Sediment
- Pooling Data Could Help Anticipate Megafloods in Europe
- Alerting Communities to Hyperlocalized Urban Flooding
- Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks'
- Rebuild or leave?
Complete two of the following labs:
(15 pts. each, may complete one additional lab for extra credit)
- Volcanoes
- Mt. Rainier color hazard map
- Hawaii eruption history (maps and narrative)
- Hawaii color lava flow hazard map
- Earthquakes
- links for #9: 1949 | 1965
- Earthquake Hazard Maps
- Landslides & Subsidence
- River Floods
Identify Local Hazards
source: https://xkcd.com/3165/
T10: Slope Processes, Landslides, and Subsidence
- The Landslide Blog
- Could Climate Change Lead to More Landslides?
- Landslides Along the Illinois River Valley South and West of LaSalle and Peru, Illinois
- A Community-Led Landslide Prediction System in India
- Landslides in coastal California city trigger state of emergency
- Beyond Majesty and Myths: Facing the Realities of Mountainside Development
- Where the Ground Gives Way
- 33.8 Million People in the United States Live on Sinking Land
- Groundwater Pumping Is Causing Mexico City to Sink
- Karst landscapes of Illinois
T19: Radon Gas & Environmental Health (sections 19.1, 19.2, A Closer Look; p.663-672)
T6: Earthquakes & Related Phenomena
- USGS Earthquake info
- Central US EQ Consortium
- Measuring Earthquakes
- U.S. Earthquake Early Warning System Gets a Major Upgrade
- Improving Earthquake Early Warning Access for the Deaf Community
- Spiky Sand Features Can Reveal the Timing of Ancient Earthquakes
- Imaging Below the Surface Reveals One of Los Angeles’s Webs of Faults
- Monitoring Earthquakes at the Speed of Light
- Unused Fiber-Optic Cables Repurposed as Seismic Sensors
- Telecom Fibers Are Sensing Earthquake Hazards in Istanbul
- Subducted Seamounts May Lead to Larger Earthquakes
- Costa Rican Faults Quiver in Response to Distant Earthquakes
- The 2023 Türkiye-Syria Earthquakes Shifted Stress in the Crust
- Felt Reports Could Shake Up Earthquake Response
- A Common Language for Reporting Earthquake Intensities
- Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes
- New USGS map shows where damaging EQs are most likely to occur in the US
Extra Credit: Virtual Earthquake (complete for 10 pts. EC)
(Off Fri)
T8: Volcanic Activity
- USGS Volcano info
- Volcanic Hazard Maps
- Volcanic Anatomy, Mapped as It Erupts
- Lessons and Lingering Questions from Collapsing Basaltic Calderas
- Italy's Campi Flegrei supervolcano is stirring. Could this seismic giant soon erupt?
- More Than 30,000 Earthquakes Trace the Movement of Magma
- How Dangerous Is Mexico's Popocatpetl? It Depends on Who You Ask
- Can Volcano Forecasting Make Visiting Whakaari Safe Again?
- Making the Most of Volcanic Eruption Responses
- How the Armero Tragedy Changed Volcanology in Colombia
- Stories Scribed on Palm Leaves Help Scientists Understand Ancient Eruption
- Some High-Threat Volcanoes Are Severely Understudied
- No Canadian Volcanoes Meet Monitoring Standards
- Hydrothermal Hazards on Display in Yellowstone National Park
T7: Tsunamis
T11: Coastal Hazards
- NASA Sea Level Projection Tool
- Historical Hurricane Tracks
- Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines
- NOAA Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
- How Researchers Have Studied the Where, When, and Eye of Hurricanes Since Katrina
- Inside a Georgia Beach’s High-Tech Fight Against Erosion
- People's houses are collapsing into the ocean. FEMA gives them no other option
- Residents Know When Floods Happen, But Data Must Catch Up
- National Hurricane Center Data Archive (includes tropical storm reports)
- Marine Heat Waves Make Tropical Storm Intensification More Likely
- Cape Cod: Shipwrecks, Dune Shacks, and Shifting Sands
- Climate Change Indicators: Coastal Flooding
- Seismic Sources in the Aleutian Cradle of Tsunamis
- Sensor Network Warns of Stealth Tsunamis
- Atmospheric Rivers Spur High-Tide Floods on U.S. West Coast
- Sea Level Science and Applications Support Coastal Resilience
- Forecasts for dangerous storm surge see a big upgrade this year
- Houses are falling into the ocean on North Carolina's Outer Banks
- Weather-Induced Tsunami Waves Regularly Roll Up on U.S. Shores
- When Should a Tsunami Not Be Called a Tsunami?
Response to Hazards
Exam 2 DUE Fri 10/10 @ 11:00 pm
Research & Discuss Local Hazards (for Exam 2)
Introduction to Resources
- Teaching of the Rain God
- UN Sustainable Development GOAL 12: Sustainable consumption and production
- Indigenous Views
- The U.S. needs minerals for green tech. Will Western mines have enough water?
T13: Water Resources
- Illinois Water Supply Planning (ISWS)
- Illinois Groundwater: A Vital Geologic Resource
- USGS Water Resources
- US Drought Monitor
- Who can drink Great Lakes water? Joliet, Illinois, raises a familiar — and contentious — question
- Trust in Evanston Tap Water Depends on Gender, Race, and Past Experiences
- Delegations Drive One Water Dialogues
- Colorado River
- Arizona's lifeline to the Colorado River is drying up. Its designers warned us decades ago
- Fixing the Flawed Colorado River Compact
- Potential Relief for the Colorado River's Near Future
- Building Resilience in the Face of a Dwindling Colorado River
- Agriculture 3.0: Preparing for a Drier Future in the Colorado River Basin
- Water Police
- Arizona's Water Supplies are Drying Up
- This city is exploring an unconventional solution to water scarcity: sewage
- Indigenous Peoples and Water Rights
- Traditional Water Management Practices in the Philipines
- California’s Drought Irreversibly Damaged Sacramento Valley Aquifers
- USEPA Water Topics
- Groundwater Replenishes Much Faster Than Scientists Previously Thought
- Seismometers Provide Fuller Picture of Los Angeles Groundwater
- More Than Half of Contiguous U.S. River Water Comes from Ephemeral Streams
- Accelerating Toward Water Security
- Peru's Wari Culture And Their Ancient Amunas Will Help Peru's Water
- Forests, Water, and Livelihoods in the Lesser Himalaya
- Climate Change Is Weakening River Seasonality in the North
- Water Scarcity Likely to Increase in the Coming Decades
- When Does Rainfall Become Recharge?
- Deep Groundwater Might Be a Sustainable Solution to the Water Crisis
- Brazil's Rivers Are Leaking
GeoScience Videos:
- Where is the Water Table?
- Porosity and Permeability
- What is an Aquifer?
- Boring a well: highlight reel
Exam 3 (85 pts, due Tue 11/25)
Water
Energy Resources- Your drinking water:
- private well or municipal supply
- well location & depth
- aquifer
- quality
- use this site for well information
- What is (or was, or could be) mined near your home? Identify at least two geologic resources that are present and describe:
- what they are
- what they can be used for
- where they are located
- any mining that has occurred
T3: Minerals & Rocks
T15: Mineral Resources
- LaSalle County Mining
- Critical Minerals for a Carbon-Neutral Future
- Meeting the Mineral Needs of the United States
- Planet Money: P is for Phosphorous
- Flourite: Illinois' State Mineral
- Nevada Has Loads of Lithium. Here’s Why.
- New Maps of Natural Radioactivity Reveal Critical Minerals and More
- Earthquakes May Lace Quartz Veins with Gold
- Iron-Rich Volcanoes Hold Hidden Rare Earth Element Reserves
- Developments in the Search for Mineral Deposits
- The renewable energy transition has companies looking out to sea
- Stone Age Humans Chose Their Rocks with Care
- Sand
- Diamonds
- What are minerals? (Minerals UK)
- USGS Mineral Resources Info
GeoScience Videos:
Groundwater (15 pts.)
T16: Energy Resources
- U.S. Energy Information Agency
- International Energy Agency
- Global shift to clean energy means fossil fuel demand will peak soon, IEA says
- U.S. Energy Dominance is Over
- The Decline and Fall of the Bakken: The Red Queen Collapses
- The “Black Gold” Flowing Under Los Angeles
GeoScience Videos:
Research Local Resources (for Exam 3)
Cookie Mining & Local Resources (15 pts.)
(Off Tue)
Human Impact of Land Use
- John Prine: "Paradise"
- Millions Likely Live in Areas Contaminated by Mining Runoff
- Proposed mines in northern Minnesota
- Map My Environment: citizen science in urban areas
- The World is Studded with Artificial Mountains
- The Black Mesa Controversy
- In Colombia, a Mine Takes Much More from the Land than Coal
- Deep-sea mining
- Agricultural Lands Are Losing Topsoil—Here’s How Bad It Could Get
Project Research (15 pts.)
T14: Water Pollution
Water Pollution (15 pts.)
(off Wed-Fri)
Exam 3 Dicussion
Exam 3 Due Tue 11/25 @ 11:59 pm
Term Project reminder
T19: Air Pollution & Waste Management
While consuming poultry, consider the impact of CAFOs. Write one page on CAFOs and turn in on 12/2 for 10 pts. EC
T19: Geology, Society, and the Future
- Land-use decisions and geology: Getting past "Out of sight, out of mind"
- Anthropocene Deserves Official Recognition, Some Experts Maintain
Project discussion
Project work (open lab)
Tue, 12/9: class does not meet (final exam schedule)
Thu, 12/11, 9:00 am: Project Presentations
Projects Due: Thu, 12/11, 11:59 pm