Field Methods: Earth, Water, and Climate Science

Catalog description

In this class students will develop basic knowledge required to perform field work in remote locations across a broad range of disciplines in the earth, water, and climate sciences. Students will be introduced to a wide variety of field skills from backcountry navigation to understanding instrumentation and measurement principles, sources of uncertainty error, and data reduction. Students will make a variety of different measurements and learn to interpret their collected data. Level: Undergraduate