G 200 - Field Studies:  Mount St. Helens Fall term.  This class is designed for students currently enrolled in an introductory geology class or who have taken such a course in the past.  We visit the Mount St. Helens Visitor Center at Silver Lake, the Toutle Sediment Retention Structure, four outcrops of volcanic rocks, debris flows, and landslides, the famous debris avalanche, and the David Johnston Ridge Visitor Center.  During the pre-field trip class meeting students will be introduced to the geology of the Mt. St. Helens area, the geology of the Cascade Range, volcanic hazards, and processes such as landslides and sediment transport.  Attendance at the field trip is required for successful completion of the course for credit.  Two weeks after the field trip, students will turn in a completed field trip guide and a 3-5 page paper on a geological topic of their choosing related to the trip.

G 202 - Geology Spring term.  Study of Earth's materials, structures, and the processes that have changed the earth's surface throughout geologic time, in the light of the unifying plate tectonics model.  Prerequisites:  G 205/7 (concurrent).

G 318 - Processes in the Surface Environment Fall term.  Physical processes occurring in the upper crust including tectonic provenances, weathering, mass transport, fluid-sediment transport, depositional environments, stratigraphic sequences, and intrastratal diagenesis.  Prerequisites:  G 201/204 and G 202/205.

G 410/510 - Hillslope Materials and Processes Winter term.   This course covers a wide range of topics in hillslope processes and landforms including sediment budgets, hillslope hydrology, weathering, soil production and transport, mass movements, and landscape evolution modeling.  Labs focus on mapping and analyzing hillslope processes with state of the art remote sensing data, collecting field data, and using numerical models.  Pre-requisites:  G 318 and MTH 251.

Upcoming... LiDAR and Landscape Evolution Seminar