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Energy and the Environment, GEL 018V

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Lecture —3 hours. Conventional and alternative energy resources and their environmental impacts. Basic principles, historical development, current advantages and disadvantages, future prospects. Oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, geothermal, water, tidal, solar, hydrogen, and other sources of energy for the 21st century.

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Credit: 3 quarter units / 2 semester units credit
UC Davis, Geology

Course Credit:

Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.

If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.

UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit

UC Davis:
General Education: Science and Engineering, science literacy, writing experience

UC Irvine:
Unit Credit

UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Physical Sciences (No Lab)

UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)

UC Riverside:
General Education: GEO Elective Units

UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle: 1 class toward Natural Science

UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit

Prerequisites

None

Course Fees

None

More About The Course

This course has been designed to take advantage of the pedagogical opportunities provided by an on-line learning environment. Basic information about energy resources and the environment will be provided in short taped lectures. After viewing this material, students will participate in an on-line webinar where the latest developments relating to each energy resource will be presented and discussed. A separate active synchronous session will be used to provide students with an opportunity to interact directly with the instructor as well as to gain experience in researching topics related to the course, writing short papers, reviewing other people’s work, working in teams and making oral presentations.

Course Creator

Kenneth Verosub
Prof. Verosub is Distinguished Professor in the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He was trained as a physicist but has spent most of his academic career as a geophysicist, using the magnetic properties of sediments and soils as tracers of paleoclimatic and other paleoenvironmental processes. He is also currently studying volcanic eruptions that have caused global cooling, the use of satellite imagery to determine river flows, the movement of freshwater at depths in the Earth's crust and the relationship between wine and geology (terroir) . At UC Davis, Prof. Verosub has taught Introductory Geology, Natural Hazards, Environmental Geology, Geophysics, Planetary Geology, and Non-Renewable Resources. He has also been a visiting professor at universities in Italy, France, Russia and Israel. During the 2009-2010 academic year, he served as a Senior Science Advisor in the United States Department of State, where he worked on the impacts of global climate change on developing countries and on issues related to water and energy. He continues to work with the State Department on water issues and also advises the World Bank on matters relating to the identification of geologic hazards and the development of plans to deal with them. His various international activities allow him to teach his courses, including this one, with a global perspective. Prof. Verosub is Distinguished Professor in the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He was trained as a physicist but has spent most of his academic career as a geophysicist, using the magnetic properties of sediments and soils as tracers of paleoclimatic and other paleoenvironmental processes. He is also currently studying volcanic eruptions that have caused global cooling, ...

Prof. Verosub is Distinguished Professor in the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He was trained as a physicist but has spent most of his academic career as a geophysicist, using the magnetic properties of sediments and soils as tracers of paleoclimatic and other paleoenvironmental processes. He is also currently studying volcanic eruptions that have caused global cooling, the use of satellite imagery to determine river flows, the movement of freshwater at depths in the Earth's crust and the relationship between wine and geology (terroir) . At UC Davis, Prof. Verosub has taught Introductory Geology, Natural Hazards, Environmental Geology, Geophysics, Planetary Geology, and Non-Renewable Resources. He has also been a visiting professor at universities in Italy, France, Russia and Israel. During the 2009-2010 academic year, he served as a Senior Science Advisor in the United States Department of State, where he worked on the impacts of global climate change on developing countries and on issues related to water and energy. He continues to work with the State Department on water issues and also advises the World Bank on matters relating to the identification of geologic hazards and the development of plans to deal with them. His various international activities allow him to teach his courses, including this one, with a global perspective.

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