Extra Credit Opportunities
Attending a Geoscience Department
talk
External Speaker Series: Fridays
at 3:30 in rom 136 Morrill Science Center
List
of speakers
Internal Speaker Series: Fridays
at 12:20 pm in Hasbrouk (our lecture room)
Write a 1 to 2 paragraph write-up
of what you learned from the talk. At the end mention some outstanding questions
that you have regarding the talk topic. These could be questions that the speaker
posed, or just questions of your own of things you didn't understand or issues
that seem unresolved.
You can earn up to 5 extra exam points
for each write-up.
Reviewing a popular book on geology
Read one of the books from the following
list and write a 2 page review of the book.
List of potential books:
- John McPhee:
- Basin and Range
- In Suspect Terrane
- Annals of the Former World,
1983
- Rising from the Plains, FS&G,
1987
- Assembling California, 1993
- The Control of Nature
- James G. Moore, * Exploring the
Highest Sierra, 2000, Stanford University Press
- David J. Levenson:, *A Sense of
the Earth, AMS Press, 1972
- Barry Lopez, *Artic Dreams Walter
L. Sullivan, A. Hallam, Landprints, NY Times Books, 1984
- Wallace Stegner, *Beyond the Hundredth
Meridian
- Mark Reisner, *The Cadillac Desert
- Simon Winchester, * The map that
changed the world, William Smith and the birth of modern Geology, 2001
- Philip Fradkin, *A River No More
- William Glen, *The Road to Jaramillo,
Stanford Univ. Press, 1982
- Gore, Albert, *Earth in the Balance
- Ecology and the Human Spirit, Houghton Miffin Co., 1992
- Kenneth Deffeyes, HubbertŐs Peak,
*The impending world oil shortage, Princeton University Press , 2001.
- Daniel Yergin, * The Prize, the
epic quest for oil, money and power, Free Press 1992.
- Jonathan Harr, * A civil Action,
Random House, 1995
- H. Takeuchi, S. Uyeda, H. Kanamori,
*Debate About the Earth, Freeman Cooper & Co., 1967
- P.J. Wyllie,
- The Way the Earth Works, John
Wiley & Sons, 1976 S. Uyeda,
- The New View of the Earth,
Freeman & Co., 1978
- Robert T. Bakker, *The Dinosaur
Heresies, William Morrow & Co., 1986
- A. Hallam, *Great Geological Controversies,
Oxford Sci. Pubs., 1983
- Kerry Sieh and Simon Levay * The
Earth in Turmoil, earthquakes volcanoes, and their impact on human kind, W.H.
Freeman, 1998
- Christpher Scholz, *Fieldwork,
A geologistŐs memoir of the Kalahari, Princeton Univeristy Press, 1997
- Russell Martin, * A story that
stands like a dam, Glen Canyon and the struggle for the soul of the west,
Henry Holt and Company 1991
- Andrew Chaikin,
- A Man on the Moon, NAD David
M. Harland,
- Exploring the Moon, Springer-Verlag
and Praxis Pub., 1999.
- Don Wilhelms, *To a Rocky Moon,
1997 (or so)
- O'Neil, Dan., *The Firecracker
Boys, 1994
- Jack Horner, *Digging Dinosaurs
- Stephen Jay Gould (all out of
W.W. Norton)
- The Panda's Thumb, 1980
- What a Wonderful Life
- Hen's Teeth, Horse's Toes,
1983
- The Flamingo's Smile, 1986
- Bruce, Victoria, *No Apparent
Danger, Harper Collins, 2002