Geology 308 & 308L: Natural Disasters
Spring 2017
Lecture: CRN 25477 Section 1 TR 17:00 – 18:20 Founders Hall 025
Lab: CRN 25478 Section 1 W 08:00 – 10:50 Forestry 204 A
- Instructor: Dr. Jason Robert Patton
- Email: Jason.Patton at humboldt.edu
- Office: Founders Hall 136
- Phone: 707.826.3923
- Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Canvas Page (Lecture)
- Canvas Page (Lab)
GEOL 308 Course Documents: pdf file
(this includes the syllabus and other important information)GEOL 308 Course Syllabus: docx file
(this includes just the syllabus)GEOL 308L Course Documents: pdf file
(this includes the syllabus and other important information)GEOL 308L Course Syllabus: docx file
(this includes just the syllabus)- Week 1: Introduction to Disaster Management and Natural Disasters
- Week 2: Weather Basics and Weather Hazards
- Week 3: Weather Hazards and Hurricanes
- Week 4: Floods
- Week 5: Floods and Landslides
- Week 6: Landslides and Plate Tectonics
- Week 7: Plate Tectonics
- Week 8: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Faults
- Week 9: Earthquake Case Studies, Beach Balls
- Week 10: Tsunami and Coastal Hazards
- Week 11: Next Stuff
- Week 12: Climate Change
- Week 13: Online Quiz and online Activities
- Week 14: Climate Change
- Week 15: Video Presentations
308 Lectures
- Activity 1: Introduction Electronic Resources on Disasters, Country Project (0.2 MB pdf)
- Activity 2: Weather (1.1 MB pdf)
- Activity 3: Discharge Calculation (0.5 MB pdf)
- Floods: A Glossary (0.1 MB pdf)
- Activity 4: Landslides (0.5 MB pdf)
- Activity 5: Earthquake Report (1 MB pdf)
- Activity 6: Focal Mechanisms (1 MB pdf)
- Activity 7: Tsunami (1 MB pdf)
308 Activities
- Online Activity 1: Tectonic Motion Rates
Online Activities
- Lab 1: Introduction to the Lab
- Lab 2: Country Map
- Lab 3: Flood Hazards
- Lab 4: Hurricane Katrina
- Lab 5: Landslides
- Week 6: Weekend Field Trip
- Lab 6: Earthquake Report
- Lab 7: Seismic Hazard
- Lab 8: Tsunami Hazard
- Lab 9: Coastal Hazard
- Lab 10: Coastal Hazard
- Lab 11: Volcanoes
308L Labs
- GEOL 308 & 308L: Country Project
308 Country Project
- Field Trip 1
308L Field Trips
- Here is research paper writing guide and example paper.
- Here is the rubric that will be used to evaluate all reports and research papers.
Research Paper Guide
- Quiz 1: (pdf)
- Quiz 1: (docx)
- Quiz II (pdf)
- Quiz II (docx)
- Quiz III (pdf)
- Quiz III (docx)
- Quiz IV (pdf)
- Quiz IV (docx)
Study Guides
- Living on Shaky Ground How to survive earthquakes and tsunamis in northern California (website) (pdf pamphlet)
Additional Resources
- Here is a page where I present some gender neutral pronouns that I use in my classes.
Gender Neutral Pronouns
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