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, HubbertÕs 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 geologistÕs 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