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Schedule of Lectures and Debates
The course syllabus provides a general plan for the course; deviations may be necessary! Textbook: Introduction to Environmental Geology (3rd Edition) by: Edward A. Keller. Pearson-Prentice Hall
NOTE: Try buying used version of the book online for few dollars, before the semester starts!
Make sure the Book comes with a CD (for Hazcity assignments)!

For all Hazard City Assignments use 'Version 1" on textbook's CD! Please get the CD!
You are required to do the following 4 assignments (see schedule below):
Earthquake Hazard, Volcanic Hazard, Flood Insurance Rate, and Groundwater

NOTE: Economic way to print the lecture Powerpoint slides:
From the "File" menu in Powerpoint, select the "Print" option and then set the "Print What:" to "Handouts", and then set the "Slides per Page:" option to "4" or "2". This prints four or 2 slides on one page; you save paper and ink!

Wk	Day	Subject/Event, Summary	Hazcity Assignments & Misc.
1	Jan 10 T	Fundamental Concepts Summary & Questions	Is Global Warming Fueling Hurricanes? Seven billion people in 2011- CNN
	R
2	Jan 17 T	Minerals and Rocks Summary & Questions	How to do the Hazard City Assignments!
	R		Natural Hazards
3	Jan 24 T	"	Select a Debate Issue Read Debate Rules
	R	Earthquake Hazard
4	Jan 31 T	Summary & Questions	Injection of water and Earthquake!
	R	"	Start Earthquake Hazcity assignment: See: Guide and Questions
5	Feb 07 T	Volcanic Hazard
	R	Summary & Questions
6	Feb 14 T	1st Exam Practice 1st Exam	Covers: Fundamentals, Minerals, Earthquake Summary and Outline for the 1st Exam
	R	"	UC Berkeley on a Fault!
7	Feb 21 T	Rivers & Flooding	Earthquake Hazcity due on Tuesday! Guide and Questions
	R	Summary & Questions	Start Volcanic Hazard Assessment Hazcity v. 1 Guide and Questions
8	Feb 28 T	Spring Break! No class
	R
9	Mar 06 T	Landslides & Subsidence	Landslide in Japan
	R	Summary & Questions
10	Mar 13 T	2nd Exam Practice 2nd Exam	Covers: Volcanos, Rivers, Landslides Summary and Outline for the 2nd Exam
	R	Water Resources	Volcanic Hazcity due on Thursday! Guide and Questions
11	Mar 20 T	Summary & Questions	Start Flood Insurance Rate Hazcity v.1 Guide and Questions
	R	Water Pollution	Clean Water
12	Mar 27 T	Summary & Questions	Flood Insurance Hazcity due on Tues! Guide and Questions
	R	Energy Resources	Debate Rules
13	Apr 03 T	Summary & Questions	Start Groundwater Contamination Hazcity v.1 Guide and Questions
	. R	Debate 1. Overpopulation
14	Apr 10 T	Present Research Papers	How to Debate, Debate Issues
	R	Debate 2. Energy Resources	Research Paper due on Thursday!
15	Apr 17 T	Present Research Papers	Groundwater Hazcity due on Tuesday! Guide and Questions
	Apr 19 R	3rd Exam (during class time, in the same class room!) Covers Water Resources, Water Pollution, and Energy Resources. Practice 3rd Exam, Summary for the covered chapters
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Final grades will only be posted on the GoSolar!

Please do not attempt to download or print the following Powerpoint slides because each will take many pages of printing and lots of colored ink! These are here for the purpose of class presentation. Instead of these, print the corresponding "light" files in the above table which are much "leaner"!