1. EAS213: GEOLOGY FOR ENGINEERS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS Measuring stream depth and flow rate

2. The focus of EAS213 is on applied aspects of earth science, visible or regional scale features, and short-term processes

3. APPLICATIONS for Engineers and Earth Scientists: 1) surveying and mapping of the surface of the earth 2) assessing rock and mineral resources 3) analyzing earthquake patterns, risk, building codes, tsunamis 4) assessing volcanic risk 5) managing fresh water resources 6) evaluating human impacts on environment due to development, mining, combustion of fossil fuels, air and water pollution

4. FEATURES: from microscopic to global size, but emphasizing hand specimen to regional scales (1cm to 100 km)

5. PROCESSES need to be measurable or observable over periods of seconds to thousands of years

6. Satellite data analyzed to produce a vegetation map

7. Topographic map showing contours of equal elevation in meters. Field elevation locations (purple dots) were interpolated using the linear spline method.

8. Mapping of Faults: Catskills

10. Mineral Resources The element Carbon produces the softest mineral (graphite) or the hardest mineral (diamond) depending on its crystal structure.

11. Ore Minerals/Mining

12. Transform Plate Boundary: San Andreas Fault

13. 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

14. Mt St Helens Erupts

15. Surface drainage pattern of a river

17. Polluted stream next to paper mill in Nashua, New Hampshire Pre-cleanup, 1965Post-cleanup, 1999