2024-2025
•EAS 4370: Field Geophysics, Spring 2025. Satisfies the graduation requirement for field observation for EAS major.
•EAS 5770/ASTRO 6577: Planetary surface processes, Next taught: Spring 2026; co-taught by Alex Hayes and myself; Offered Spring 2015*; 2017*; 2020; 2022; 2024*. *Field trip over spring break to Death Valley and the Mojave Desert
Other classes I have taught:
•EAS 1101: Climate and Energy: a 21st Century Earth Science Perspective; Next offered Fall 2023; co-taught with Toby Ault (2018-2020). Undergraduate course for non-majors about Earth Science challenges for the 21st century: energy, fresh water availability, climate change, agriculture and soil. Regularly co-taught in fall semesters by Toby Ault, Rowena Lohman and Rick Allmendinger. I first co-taught the class in 2018.
• EAS 1220: Earthquake! (and other natural disasters), Spring 2007 (Read Bob Emro's article about this class), Offered more recently by Larry Brown, Spring 2008-2023 and Geoff Abers 2024-present.
• EAS 3880: Global Geophysics: Next taught: Spring 2026 by Dr. Grace Barcheck. Formerly called EAS 388: Geophysics and Geotectonics and EAS 4880 Global Geophysics; Last offered in 2024.
•EAS 4050: Active Tectonics, Next taught: Fall 2025 (by Rowena Lohman) with the title Active Tectonics and Structural Geology); Also taught: Spring 2005; Spring 2008 (by Rowena Lohman); Fall 2010; Fall 2013; Fall 2015; Fall 2017; Spring 2022 (by Rowena Lohman)
•EAS 4370: Field Geophysics, First taught: Spring 2018; co-taught with Profs. Brown and Keranen. Upgraded version of class formerly called "EAS 4370 Geophysical Field Methods" that now satisfies the graduation requirement for field observation by including weekend field exercises near campus and partially funded by a community Engaged Cornell Curriculum Grant. Offered Spring 2019 and 2023 by Prof. Brown and Spring 2022 by Prof. Keranen;
• EAS 4940/6920 and CHEM 6680: Earth Source Heat module (Addressing Energy Needs with Earth Source Heat: Subsurface Characterization at Cornell), First taught: Spring 2018; co-taught with Jeff Tester, Terry Jordan, Katie Keranen, and others. For 4 weeks, we will discuss the science and engineering of the Cornell Earth Source Heat project. A series of guest lecturers will provide the latest information and students will participate in ongoing research projects.
•EAS 4940: Local Glacial and Quaternary Geology, with Professor Emeritus, Dan Karig. This was a one-time class offered Fall 2016 that included weekly readings and lecture, a field trip, and coring in a local bog.
•EAS 5770/ASTRO 6577: Planetary surface processes, Next taught: Spring 2026; co-taught by Alex Hayes and myself; Offered Spring 2015; 2017; 2020; 2022; 2024
• EAS 5780/ASTRO 6578 (with J.-L. Margot): Planet Formation and Evolution, Fall 2008; Fall 2006. Last offered by Jonathan Lunine
• EAS 6920: Forecasting Volcanic Eruptions; Last taught: Fall 2022. Co-taught with Esteban Gazel; One-time only?
• I co-taught EAS 6669 "Earth Energy Science & Engineering" (cross-listed with CHEME) -- a module of the Cornell Earth-Energy IGERT funded by the National Science Foundation: Spring 2012. Also taught in Fall, 2013; 2015
• EAS 7310*: Graduate seminar on Ground water, surface deformation and InSAR, Fall 2005.
• EAS 7310*: Seminar on Glacier remote sensing, climate change, and sea level rise, Fall 2008, With Visiting Professor Joan Ramage. One time only!
• EAS 7310*/ASTRO 7671 (with Jim Bell): Lunar science and exploration, Fall 2009, One time only!
• 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014; Short courses on InSAR offered in August at UNAVCO. Three separate PPT presentations are available here based on my lectures from the 2.5 day short course. NEW: Video recordings of the 2011 and the 2014 courses are available
• Monitoring volcanoes with InSAR PDF slides of my lecture during the 2-day Volcano monitoring short course before the 2008 IAVCEI meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.
• I like to use field geophysical equipment in my classes, so I use and help maintain the department's field geophysics equipment.
*Special Note for EAS 7310: This class is "on the books" every semester for independent study -- please contact me for some project ideas. If several students have a common interest (as in Fall, 2005, 2008, & 2009) we will run the course more like a seminar.