Teaching

EAPS 243 Earth Materials I

This course is designed to provide Geology & Geophysics and Planetary Science Students with a foundation in mineralogy and petrology in preparation for upper year courses. The course employs a combination of labs and lectures to give students a solid introduction to minerals, their formation, microstructure, and identification in rocks. The class includes both use of the petrographic microscope and other analytical techniques.

EAPS 591 Geo and Cosmochemistry

This course is designed to service Junior and Senior Undergraduates as well as Graduate students, providing them with a fundamental understanding of the diversity of planetary materials we have in our collections and an understanding of their formation and alteration. Broadly, the course focused on describing the chemical and geological processes important for the formation and evolution of our solar system and the planet Earth. The course included discussion of nucleosynthesis, chemical abundances, and the origin and composition of various planetary objects and their constituent materials.

EAPS 591 Laboratory Analysis

This course focuses various analytical techniques used in Earth and Planetary Materials analyses. Lectures cover the basic principles governing the functionality of various instruments and include reviews of papers in Earth and Planetary Science which make use of these techniques. This course includes a laboratory component, making use of various instruments on campus to provide students with hands-on experience.