Course Descriptions

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• EES 1010 First Year Seminar

  Credit Hours: 

  1

  Schedule Type: 

  Seminar

• EES 1030 The Paleobiology of Dinosaurs

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 1030L The Paleobiology of Dinosaurs Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 1050 Dynamic Earth

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 1050L Dynamic Earth Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 1070 Sustainable Earth

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 1990 Directed Studies

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 4

  Schedule Type: 

  Independent Study

• EES 2010 Hydrology and Water Resources

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 2150 Global Change

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 2510 Earth Systems

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 2510L Earth Systems Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 2550 Earth History

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 2550L Earth History Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 2600 Environmental Science and Society: A Cross Cultural Perspective

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3100 Earth Science Research

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 3120 Earth Materials

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3140 Sedimentary Petrology

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3160 Stratigraphy and Sedimentology

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3160L Stratigraphy and Sedimentology Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 3170 Field and Laboratory Studies of Coastal Processes

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3180 Water and the Environment

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3180L Water and the Environment Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 3200 Water, Energy, and the Environment

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3230 Introduction to the Ocean

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3240 American Environmental History

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3250 Climate Change

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3450 Concepts in Earth Science I for Educators

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

  Lecture

• EES 3460 Concepts in Earth Science II for Educators

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3600 Water, Wastewater, and Solid Waste

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3620 General Environmental Health

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3660 Environmental Health Sciences Internship

  Credit Hours: 

  6

  Schedule Type: 

  Internship

• EES 3680 Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3700 HAZWOPER Refresher

  Credit Hours: 

  1

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 3990 Special Problems in Earth and Environmental Sciences

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 5

  Schedule Type: 

  Independent Study

• EES 4010 Topics in Earth and Environmental Science

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 5

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4130 Map Design with GIS

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4190 Paleobiology

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4190L Paleobiology Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 4200 Global Extinctions and Climate Change

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4200L Global Extinctions and Climate Change Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 4210 Structural Geology and Tectonics

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4220 Introduction to Geophysics

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4240 Oceanography

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4250 Diagenesis of Sedimentary Rocks

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4260 Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 2

  Schedule Type: 

  Seminar

• EES 4270 Process Geomorphology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4280 Earth and Environmental Sciences Colloquium

  Credit Hours: 

  .5

  Schedule Type: 

  Seminar

• EES 4290 Remote Sensing of Earth

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4300 Environmental Applications of Geographic Information Systems

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4310 Quality Assurance of Environmental Analysis

  Credit Hours: 

  .5

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4320 Environmental Microbiology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4330 Global Biogeochemical Cycles

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4340 Mapping Methods

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4350 Field Mapping

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4360 Environmental Field Techniques

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4370 Seismic Reflection Digital Imaging and Processing

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4380 Seismic Interpretation

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4400 Glacial Landforms

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4410 Physical Geology and Natural History of Ohio

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4420 Comparative Evolutionary Anatomy

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4430 Analysis and Prediction of Complex Natural and Human Systems

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4440 Geophysical Well Log Analysis

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4450 Petroleum Geology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4460 Sequence Stratigraphy

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4470 Astronomy for K-12 Educators

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4480 Plate Tectonics

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4500 Carbonate Sedimentology and Petrology

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4510 Effective Scientific Communication

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4530 Diagenesis of Sedimentary Rocks

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4540 Subsurface Fluid Flow

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4540L Subsurface Fluid Flow Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 4550 Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4560 Groundwater Contamination

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4570 Site Remediation and Management

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4590 Advanced Aquatic Geochemistry

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4600 Limnology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Practicum

• EES 4610 Near-Surface Geophysics

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4620 Environmental Toxicology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4640 Risk Assessment and Communication

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4660 OSHA Compliance

  Credit Hours: 

  1

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4680 Environmental Law for Scientists

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4700 Environmental Internship and Career Analysis

  Credit Hours: 

  1

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4720 Epidemiology and Community Health

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4740 Fundamental Occupational Health and Safety

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4750 Biological Safety

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4760 Air Quality Management

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 4780 Environmental Sciences Seminar

  Credit Hours: 

  1

  Schedule Type: 

  Seminar

• EES 4960 Senior Thesis Research

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 5

  Schedule Type: 

  Independent Study

• EES 4990 Special Problems in the Earth and Environmental Sciences

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 5

  Schedule Type: 

  Independent Study

• EES 5600 Water, Wastewater, and Solid Waste

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 5620 General Environmental Health

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 5680 Hazardous Waste Operation & Emergency Response

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 5700 HAZWOPER Refresher

  Credit Hours: 

  1

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 5990 Special Problems in Earth and Environmental Sciences

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 5

  Schedule Type: 

  Independent Study

• EES 6010 Topics in Earth and Environmental Science

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 5

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6050 Earth Science Concepts for Educators

  Credit Hours: 

  3.5

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6060 Earth Systems for Educators

  Credit Hours: 

  3.5

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6100 Earth Science Research

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 6120 Earth Materials

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6140 Sedimentary Petrology

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6150 Global Change for Teachers

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6160 Stratigraphy & Sedimentology

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6160L Stratigraphy & Sedimentology Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 6170 Field & Laboratory Studies of Coastal Processes

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 6190 Paleobiology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6190L Paleobiology laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 6200 Micropaleontology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 6210 Structural Geology and Tectonics

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6220 Introduction to Geophysics

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6230 Introduction to the Ocean

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6240 Oceanography

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6250 Climate Change

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6260 Earth & Environmental Sciences Seminar

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 2

  Schedule Type: 

  Seminar

• EES 6270 Process Geomorphology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6280 Earth and Environmental Sciences Colloquium

  Credit Hours: 

  .5

  Schedule Type: 

  Seminar

• EES 6290 Remote Sensing of Earth

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 6300 Environ Apps of GIS

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6310 Quality Assurance of Environmental Analysis

  Credit Hours: 

  .5

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6320 Environmental Microbiology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6330 Global Biogeochemical Cycles

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6340 Mapping Methods

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6350 Field Mapping

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6360 Environmental Field Techniques

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 6370 Seismic Reflection Digital Imaging and Processing

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6380 Seismic Interpretation

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6400 Glacial Landforms

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6410 Physical Geology and Natural History of Ohio

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6420 Paleobio of Paleo Vert/Plants

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 6430 Analysis and Prediction of Complex Natural and Human Systems

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6440 Geophysical Well Log Analysis

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6450 Petroleum Geology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6460 Sequence Stratigraphy

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6470 Astronomy K-12 Teachers

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6480 Plate Tectonics for Educators

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6500 Carbonate Sedimentology and Petrology

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6510 Effective Scientific Communication

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6530 Diagenesis of Sedimentary Rocks

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6540 Subsurface Fluid Flow

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6540L Subsurface Fluid Flow Laboratory

  Credit Hours: 

  0

  Schedule Type: 

  Lab

• EES 6550 Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6560 Groundwater Contamination

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6570 Site Remediation and Management

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6590 Advanced Aquatic Geochemistry

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6601 Limnology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Practicum

• EES 6610 Near-Surface Geophysics

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6620 Environmental Toxicology

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6640 Risk Assessment and Communication

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6660 OSHA Compliance

  Credit Hours: 

  1

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6680 Environmental Law For Scientists

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6720 Epidemiology and Community Health

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6740 Fundamental Occupational Health and Safety

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6750 Biological Safety

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6760 Air Quality Management

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6780 Environmental Sciences Seminar

  Credit Hours: 

  1

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 6990 Special Problems in Earth and Environmental Sciences

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 5

  Schedule Type: 

  Independent Study

• EES 7000 Principles of Instruction in Earth & Environmental Sciences

  Credit Hours: 

  1

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 7100 Complexity in Environmental Systems

  Credit Hours: 

  4

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 7200 Applications of Isotopes in Environmental Sciences

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 7480 Subsurface Hydraulics, Pumping Tests & Analyses

  Credit Hours: 

  2

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 7490 Modeling Subsurface Fluid Flow

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Lecture

• EES 7800 MST Research

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 4

  Schedule Type: 

  Independent Study

• EES 7810 MST Project

  Credit Hours: 

  3

  Schedule Type: 

  Independent Study

• EES 8990 Thesis

  Credit Hours: 

  .5 to 10

  Schedule Type: 

  Independent Study