Courses
Taught at UB
GEO 101:
Physical Environmental Geography I
GEO 106: Global
Climate Change
Global warming is constantly
in the news – high temperatures, low
lake-levels, big storms, and growing
deserts. This four credit course examines
past, present and future global warming by
considering causes of warming, methods of
modeling the future, predicted environmental
and social impacts, and possible solutions.
GEO 347: Climatic
Geomorphology
Recent events (e.g., flooding,
mudslides, sinkholes, tsunamis) highlight
the impact of land forming processes on
human societies and socioeconomic systems.
With these and other events in mind, this
course examines how land surface forming
processes interrelate with climate and land
use. The first part of the course focuses on
the role of climate, vegetation, and other
factors on landform changing processes. The
latter part considers how these processes
are expressed in different systems,
including humid and semi-arid watersheds,
glaciated landscapes, permafrost, karst
landscapes, and in coastal environments.
GEO
561: Ecohydrology
This course deals with hydrologic and
ecological mechanisms underlying
climate-soil-vegetation dynamics and
land-water dynamics. The evolution of
terrestrial ecosystems depends on the need of
vegetation for inputs of light, water, and
nutrients. These inputs are variable in time
and space, and how they are assimilated
depends on plant characteristics and ecosystem
structure. Thus, vegetation plays an active
role as both cause and effect of the
space-time dynamics of soil water and climate.
Specific topics will include preferred states
in spatial distribution of soil moisture,
hydraulic limits to plant water use,
ecological optimality, vegetation-hydrology
linkages at catchment scales, carbon and
nutrient cycling, and vegetation competition.
Courses
Taught at University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Regional Hydrology
- Remote Sensing Visual Image
Interpretation and GIS Integration
- Computational Aspects of GIS
- Environmental Monitoring
Practicum
- Environmental Monitoring Seminar
Course
Taught at the University of Toronto
- Geographic Information and
Mapping I
