STUDENT VOICE Geological and Environmental Sciences is one of the most valuable majors offered at Pacific and develops in students their ability to solve real environmental challenges. Our rigorous academic program prepares students for success by integrating career-oriented professional development, certifications, and training into academic courses. Many of our students participate in research and publish their results by the time they graduate. Students in our department are immersed in experiences driven by our hands-on approach to learning. Our majors travel to a range of regional and international destinations, including Scotland, the Chilean Patagonia, Hawaii, the Colorado plateau, and a variety of locations throughout the west coast of North America. Many of our majors work closely with faculty on award-winning research projects that can take students to exotic geologic locales, including western Ireland, Japan, the ancient Appalachian Mountains of upstate New York, the Marshall Islands, and the high Sierra Nevada. Geological and environmental scientists investigate Earth's mysteries while advancing a clean environment, reducing the impact of natural disasters, and providing resources for modern life. Many of our graduates continue their education in top-tier graduate schools or pursue successful and lucrative careers in a wide range of fields, including government, geotechnical or environmental consulting, law, medicine, and public policy. Are you looking to discover your potential? If you want to protect society, explore the Earth, understand the environment, work in your community or around the world, you belong in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. Our department takes a broad view of the Earth and offers courses that develop a scientific understanding of our planet, its history, natural systems, resources, and recent global change. Our students explore the origin of the Earth and solar system, the formation of continents and oceans, the evolution and extinction of life, the distribution and availability of water and natural resources, and the impact of humans on the environment. Throughout their studies, students in our department utilize a wide range of technology to enrich their experience, including a state of the art GIS computing facility and laboratories designed to explore water resources and water quality, soil functions, and deformation in the Earth’s crust. DISCOVER GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AT PACIFIC GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Associate Professor and Chair Laura Rademacher, PhD [email protected] | 209.946.7351 visit us at pacific.edu/GESC THE MAJOR THE EXPERIENCE THE OUTCOMES "I had the opportunity to go on a week-long field trip with the Geological and Environmental Sciences department through the Colorado Plateau. It was one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had. We went to more than ten national parks, I saw snow for the first time, and I learned how to ride a bike at the Grand Canyon." OLIVIA SUE BS Geological and Environmental Sciences
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STUDENT VOICE
Geological and Environmental Sciences is one of the most valuable majors offered at Pacific and develops in students their ability to solve real environmental challenges. Our rigorous academic program prepares students for success by integrating career-oriented professional development, certifications, and training into academic courses. Many of our students participate in research and publish their results by the time they graduate.
Students in our department are immersed in experiences driven by our hands-on approach to learning. Our majors travel to a range of regional and international destinations, including Scotland, the Chilean Patagonia, Hawaii, the Colorado plateau, and a variety of locations throughout the west coast of North America. Many of our majors work closely with faculty on award-winning research projects that can take students to exotic geologic locales, including western Ireland, Japan, the ancient Appalachian Mountains of upstate New York, the Marshall Islands, and the high Sierra Nevada.
Geological and environmental scientists investigate Earth's mysteries while advancing a clean environment, reducing the impact of natural disasters, and providing resources for modern life. Many of our graduates continue their education in top-tier graduate schools or pursue successful and lucrative careers in a wide range of fields, including government, geotechnical or environmental consulting, law, medicine, and public policy.
Are you looking to discover your potential? If you want to protect society, explore the Earth, understand the environment, work in your community or around the world, you belong in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences.
Our department takes a broad view of the Earth and offers courses that develop a scientific understanding of our planet, its history, natural systems, resources, and recent global change.
Our students explore the origin of the Earth and solar system, the formation of continents and oceans, the evolution and extinction of life, the distribution and availability of water and natural resources, and the impact of humans on the environment.
Throughout their studies, students in our department utilize a wide range of technology to enrich their experience, including a state of the art GIS computing facility and laboratories designed to explore water resources and water quality, soil functions, and deformation in the Earth’s crust.
DISCOVERGEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCESAT PACIFIC
GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Associate Professor and Chair Laura Rademacher, PhD [email protected] | 209.946.7351visit us at pacific.edu/GESC
THE MAJOR
THE EXPERIENCE
THE OUTCOMES
"I had the opportunity to go on a week-long field trip with the Geological and Environmental Sciences department through the Colorado Plateau. It was one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had. We went to more than ten national parks, I saw snow for the first time, and I learned how to ride a bike at the Grand Canyon."
OLIVIA SUEBS Geological and Environmental Sciences
GEOLOGICAL + ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES COURSES
OVERVIEW
FACULTY
Degrees OfferedBachelor of ScienceBachelor of Arts
The Bachelor of Arts in Geological and Environmental Sciences is for liberal arts students with a strong interest in the earth and its environments, but who plan to pursue a career in outside sciences. The Bachelor of Science in GESC prepares students for professional employment as a scientist or graduate study in geology, environmental
science, or hydrology. The breadth of the BS and BA degrees in GESC is ideal for preparing students for professional degrees including law and health-related fields, as well as preparing students for work in business, international relations, communication, the arts, teaching, policy, or advocacy work.
Pacific offers three-degree paths that are designed to prepare students for an Earth-centered career that best fits their interests and goals.
1) Geology prepares students for competitive careers in a broadrange of traditional and non-traditional fields. Students areprovided the tools needed to scientifically approach all aspectsof the earth system.
2) Environmental Science provides an interdisciplinary approachto the natural sciences, integrating a core of geology, biology,chemistry and mathematics with policy and humanities classes.
3) Environmental Hydrology uses an interdisciplinary approachto find solutions to questions related to water resources.Scientific coursework is coupled with water focused policy andlaw classes.
Laura Rademacher, Associate Professor and ChairKurtis Burmeister, Associate ProfessorKarrigan Börk, Visiting Assistant Professor
Lydia Fox, Associate ProfessorEugene Pearson, Professor
CATALOG.PACIFIC.EDU | PRINT CATALOG YEAR : 2016 - 2017
Foundational CoursesBIOL 051.BIOL 061.CHEM 023. CHEM 024.CIVL 60. MATH 035. MATH 037. MATH 51. PHYS 23. PHYS 25.PHYS 53.PHYS 55.
Breadth CoursesPrinciples of Biology. 5 Units.Principles of Biology. 5 Units.Elements of Chemistry. 4 Units.Fundamentals of Chem. 4 Units.Water Quality. 4 Units. Elementary Statistical Inference. 4 Units.Introduction to Statistics and Probability. 4 Units.Calculus I. 4 units. General Physics I. 5 Units. General Physics II. 5 Units. Principles of Physics I. 5 units. Principles of Physics II. 5 units.
Environmental Science for Informed Citizens. 4 Units.Soil, Water, and War. 4 Units.Dynamic Planet. 4 Units.Earth and Life Through Time. 4 Units.Geology of California. 4 Units.Environment: Concepts and Issues. 4 Units.Earth Materials. 5 Units.Global Change. 4 Units.Critical Zone Science. 4 Units.
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. 4 Units.Sedimentary Petrology. 4 Units.Structural Geology. 4 Units.Ecology. 5 Units.Ecology and Conservation Biology. 4 Units.Vertebrate Biology. 4 Units.Biology of Insects. 4 Units.Marine Biology. 4 Units.Marine Birds and Mammals. 4 Units.California Flora. 4 Units.Freshwater Ecology. 4 Units.Environmental Hydrology. 4 Units.Foundations of Water Resources Law. 3 Units.Environmental Law. 4 Units.Water and Environmental Policy. 3 Units.Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. 4 Units.Global Environmental Policy. 4 Units.
BIOL 051.BIOL 061.CHEM 023. CHEM 024.CIVL 60. MATH 035. MATH 037.
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