Student Educational Activities EARTHSCI 3355/EARTHSCI 5355 - Hydrogeology: 3 hrs Activities: The primary focus is on ground water flow principles, occurrence, and its pollution. The class includes 5 major problem sets, 2 exams, numerous class practice problems, a short modeling project, activities at the on-campus monitoring well site, and ion chromatographic analysis of water in the laboratory. EARTHSCI 3350/EARTHSCI 5350 - Environmental Hydrology: 3 hrs Activities: The primary focus is on surface water pollution and watershed hydrology. The class has 5 major problem sets, 2 exams, numerous class practice problems, a two-month long hydrologic project in the Dry Run Creek/Cedar River areas, and student presentations. EARTHSCI 1300 - Introduction to Geology: 4 hrs Activities: The primary focus is on understanding the earth's dynamic systems and its physical environments. There are lectures on fundamentals of earth's formation, surficial and internal geologic processes, many slides to enhance the understanding of erosional and depositional processes, use of overhead diagrams, videos, rock and mineral specimens as examples during lectures, in-class mini problems to involve students during lecture, etc. Lab activities include in-class exercises and home works. Four exams are given in lecture and 2 exams (plus 1 quiz) given in lab. CAP 3140 - Environment, Technology and Society: 2 hrs Activities: The primary focus is on the connectedness of the environmental components, including the role of human society. There are lectures on environmental issues by instructor, discussion of newspaper and journal articles led by student groups, written summaries, student-instructor and student-student dialogues/debates, 2 exams, 1 term paper and presentation, and a field trip. EARTHSCI 6250 - Global Systems: 3 hrs Activities: This class is open to graduate students only. The primary focus is on global-scale understanding of the physical and geological processes that influence and are influenced by the earth's biosphere and hydrosphere. There are lectures on interdisciplinary topics, reviews of refereed articles, class discussions/debates on current literature issues, and guest speakers. The students are given 4 homework assignments, 2 exams, and a semester long project that has to be presented in class.
		ENV SCI 6289 - Environmental Science/Technology Seminar: 1 hr Activities: The primary focus is on graduate students' exposure to current literature. Activities include discussions of refereed articles, guest speakers, and a project dealing with interviewing UNI faculty in environmental research. Each student gives two talks during the semester. EARTHSCI 4400 - Undergraduate Research in Earth Science: 1-3 hrs Activities: Mentoring of undergraduate students toward successful completion of a research project. EARTHSCI 6299 - Graduate Research: 6 hrs Activities: Mentoring of graduate students toward successful completion of a research project leading to M.S. thesis.