Natural Hazards
GLY-101LEC-DIF2
University at Buffalo
- Semester
- Spring 2025
- Instructor
- Nicholas Difrancesco
- Start Date
- 01-22-2025
- Total Credits
- 3
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- 716-645-5698
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This Scientific Literacy and Inquiry course explores the solid Earth and ways that ongoing, natural processes act to harm people and property. The course aims to put geological hazards in a broader context by examining the latest science at the micro (e.g., minerals), human (e.g., why tsunamis are such efficient and massive killers) and global (e.g., global effects of asteroid impacts or super volcano eruptions) scales. We will examine the history of scientific discovery and thought about natural hazards and global catastrophes on both human and geologic timescales. We will use case studies and debates to clarify science vs. pseudo-science, current controversies, and how natural (as well as some human-induced) hazards affect us in Western New York. Completing all three courses, GLY 101LEC, GLY 102LEC and GLY 105LAB, would fulfill the Scientific Inquiry and Literacy Requirement as well as the Natural Sciences General Education requirement.
General Education Area(s): Natural Sciences
Course Area: Earth Science
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Dates: 01-22-2025 - 05-06-2025
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