Official description

The course will cover basic physics of environmental processes and of measurement techniques in the atmosphere, the ocean, lake-land-forest systems, and other biological systems.  It will place its work in the context of climate change and other aspects of environmental change.  This course is solely intended for students who have NOT completed a previous first year physics core course, who are in one of the following programs:  Environmental Science Major or Minor, Environmental Geosciences Specialist or Earth and Environmental Systems Major.