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Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences (EOS) courses at UVic:

EOS 110 - Oceans and Atmosphere

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
  • Fall
 Origin and structure of the oceans and atmosphere. Dynamic processes that drive ocean and atmosphere circulation, weather patterns and global climate change. The coastal ocean, marine ecosystems, nutrient and carbon ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 120 - The Dynamic Earth

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
  • Fall
 Internal and external processes that shape the Earth and its landscapes. Nature of tectonic forces, earthquakes, volcanoes, rocks and minerals, and mountain building. Processes of erosion, sediment transport and deposition, ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 170 - Natural Hazards

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 An overview of natural hazards including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami, landslides, flooding, extreme weather, and meteor impacts. Particular attention is given to hazards related to climate change, hazards affecting southwestern British ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 201 - Sedimentary Geology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 The physical, chemical and biological nature of sediments at sea and on land. The process of sediment transport, deposition and diagenesis. The origin and internal stratigraphy of sedimentary basins in ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 202 - Structural Geology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 Geometric, kinematic and dynamic analysis of deformation structures in rock bodies at different scales, in both brittle and ductile regimes. Stress and strain in rocks and their relationship to geologic ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 205 - Mineralogy

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 Introduction to the fundamental principles and concepts of mineralogy and optical mineralogy. A practical and systematic treatment of the common rock-forming minerals and mineral groups. Emphasis will be placed on ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 210 - Introductory Geophysics

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 Introduction to seismology, gravity, geomagnetism, paleomagnetism and heat flow, and how they contribute to our understanding of whole Earth structure and plate tectonics. Course reviews: 0

EOS 225 - Earth System Modelling

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 An introduction to the construction, analysis, and interpretation of quantitative models of the Earth System and its components, with a particular emphasis on the use of computers in scientific problem ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 240 - Geochemistry

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 Thermodynamic and kinetic approaches to understanding the Earth system. Application of theory to practical questions such as mineral formation, weathering, water quality, and petroleum formation. Also covered is short-term ocean ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 260 - Earth System Evolution through Deep Time

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 Earth evolution has involved long periods of stability punctuated by catastropic irreversible crises. Focuses on multidisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of key planetary crises including: birthing of the ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 300 - Earth Science Field School

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Summer
 An up to two-week field course in and around southern Vancouver Island during which the students will be introduced to geological fieldwork (mapping, traversing, drawing sedimentary logs, sampling, recording field ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 311 - Biological Oceanography

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
  • Summer
 An introduction to the ways in which physical, chemical and biological processes interact to regulate structure and productivity of marine ecosystems. Lectures will focus primarily on planktonic ecosystems. Participation in ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 312 - Introductory Chemical Oceanography

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Summer
 An introduction to the sources, distribution, and transformations of chemical constituents of the ocean, and their relation to biological, chemical, geological, and physical processes. Topics include: controls on average concentration ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 313 - Geological Oceanography

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Summer
 An introduction to the geological processes that shape the ocean basins, oceanic plate creation and structure, hydrothermal circulation at mid-ocean ridges, bathymetry, ocean islands, different types of ocean margins, ocean ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 314 - Descriptive Physical Oceanography

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Summer
 An introduction to the geography of Earth's fluid ocean and the physics that govern it. Topics include fundamental physical variables and their distribution, air/sea interaction, water masses and their formation, ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 315 - Acoustical Oceanography

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 An introduction to ocean science through the window of underwater sound, with applications to physical, biological and geological processes in the ocean. The main subjects treated are the effects of ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 316 - Igneous and Metamorphic Geology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 The physical and chemical processes governing changes that rocks undergo as they equilibrate at different pressure and temperature conditions within the Earth. Melting, crystallization and sub-solidus recrystallization as a function ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 330 - Paleobiology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 Processes and patterns in the evolution of life through time: extinction, evolution and diversification as recognized from the fossil record. Major events in the history of life. The relationship of ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 335 - Isotopes in Natural Sciences

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 Basic principles controlling isotope distribution, including natural abundances, radiogenic decay, equilibrium and kinetic isotope effects. Applications of the principles in the fields of: Earth history—global processes and chronology; mineralization—diagenesis, catagenesis; ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 340 - Atmospheric Sciences

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 Introduction to the fundamental processes and forces governing the Earth's weather and climate. Specific applications such as weather systems and global climate/change. Topics include clouds, precipitation, tornadoes, thunderstorms, cyclones, air-sea ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 350 - Understanding the World's Oceans

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 Highlights the scientific basis of current topics and issues affecting the world's oceans. Focus may include: deep-sea exploration, mineral exploitation, El Niño, climate change, ocean circulation, waste disposal, food chains ... Course reviews: 1

EOS 365 - Climate and Society

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 A survey of the climate system and its interaction with past, present, and future societies. Topics include: climate change and the onset of agriculture/domestication, climate change and the rise and ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 400 - Advanced Field School

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Summer
 An up to two-week field trip through the Southern Canadian Cordillera, examining the rock units and structures of the major tectonic elements in southern British Columbia and Alberta. Parallels, where ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 403 - Global Biogeochemical Cycles

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Organic matter is studied from its formation (primary production) through its transformation and destruction during transport, depositional, and diagenetic remineralization processes. Global carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulphur cycles are discussed. ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 408 - Marine Geology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 A combined lecture and seminar course covering modern marine geological processes in a wide range of oceanic environments: mid-ocean ridges, mid-plate volcanoes and hot spots, coastlines, continental margins and abyssal ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 410 - Global Tectonics

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 A study of global tectonic systems including geological, geophysical, geochemical and geographical perspectives on major tectonic environments. A wide range of examples from different continents will be used. Vancouver Island ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 416 - High Temperature Petrology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 The thermodynamic and kinetic principles controlling the origin and behaviour of rocks at high temperatures and pressures. Thermodynamic and kinetic relations in igneous and metamorphic systems applied to understanding the ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 420 - Resource Geology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 A geological study of the major types of economically important metallic and nonmetallic minerals and other earth resources, basic processes of ore formation, exploration and mining techniques. The impacts of ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 422 - Energy Resources

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 Discusses the Earth's major economic natural energy resources. Focuses on conventional oil and gas, coal, CBM and tar sands, including modes of formation, accumulation and recovery, along with the mechanisms ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 425 - Aqueous Chemistry in the Earth and Ocean

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 What controls the concentrations of aqueous species in the hydrosphere? Principles of chemical equilibrium and kinetics are applied to the major aspects of the global hydrochemical cycle. Investigates reactions and ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 427 - Geophysics

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Principles of seismology, gravity, geomagnetism, heat flow, and how they contribute to our understanding of whole Earth structure and plate tectonics. Course reviews: 0

EOS 431 - Physical Oceanography

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 Observations and theories explaining the wind- and buoyancy-driven circulations of the ocean. Topics include wind-forced currents; ocean-scale gyres; coastal circulation; conservation of dynamical tracers; mixing, potential energy and the resulting ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 433 - The Climate System

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Studies of the Earth's climate require an understanding of the intimate links between the hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere and biosphere. Basic theories of the dynamics of ocean and atmosphere. The physics ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 435 - Waves in the Ocean

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 The mathematical theories and physics of surface gravity waves, internal waves, Rossby waves and other wave motions in the ocean are introduced, with an emphasis on general results that describe ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 440 - Hydrogeology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 Interdisciplinary and quantitative approaches to the nature and migration of fluids in the Earth's crust. Theory of groundwater flow in fractured and porous media. Surface-groundwater interactions and changes in water ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 450 - Quaternary Geology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 The methods and theory of Quaternary research, stressing the processes of interaction between the geosphere and biosphere. Topics include dating methods, paleoenvironmental studies, glaciation and global change, geological hazards, interdisciplinary ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 460 - Earth System Science

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 An examination of the interrelationships between the complex systems operating in the solid Earth, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere; methods of systems analysis for the planet; modelling of global processes. Course reviews: 0

EOS 480 - Applied Geophysics

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Spring
 An introduction to geophysical methods used in resource exploration and in investigations of crustal structure. Topics include principles and applications of seismic, gravity, magnetic, electrical and electromagnetic methods. Emphasis will ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 490 - Directed Studies in Earth and Ocean Sciences

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 With the consent of the School and the faculty member concerned, a student may be permitted to pursue a course of directed studies. Course reviews: 0

EOS 499A - Honours Thesis I

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
  • Spring
  • Summer
 The first stage of a research project conducted under the direction of a faculty member. Open to Honours students only. Course reviews: 0

EOS 499B - Honours Thesis II

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
  • Spring
  • Summer
 Continuation of a research project conducted under the direction of a faculty member. Open to Honours students only. Course reviews: 0

EOS 500 - Organic Geochemistry

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Tracks the fate of organic matter from its formation through its transformation and destruction during depositional, diagenetic (remineralization) and catagenic (petroleum generation) processes. The concepts and analytical techniques of water ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 503 - Global Biogeochemical Cycles

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Tracks the fate of organic matter from its formation (primary production) through its transformation and destruction during transport, depositional, and diagenetic remineralization processes. Global carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulphur cycles ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 504 - Selected Topics in Geochemistry

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Topics will be selected in or will span the fields of solid Earth, marine, atmospheric and planetary geochemistry. Examples include ocean biogeochemical processes, applications of geochemical tracers in oceanography and ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 506 - Global Bioevents and the Paleobiological Record

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Analysis of major global bioevents in the Phanerozoic paleobiologic record; causes and consequences of extinction bioevents; patterns of adaptive radiation; changes to the planetary biota in relation to continental drift, ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 508 - Marine Geology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 A seminar course covering modern processes of marine geology, including depositional processes and diagenesis of marine sediments. Examines a range of depositional environments: fjord and coastal, shelf, slope, and oceanic; ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 510 - Plate Tectonics: the Geological Record

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 An examination of the processes of plate tectonics as revealed by the geological record, including Precambrian evolution of cratons; rifts and passive margins; convergent margins and orogens; plate motions through ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 511 - Plate Tectonic Processes

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 An overview of plate tectonic regimes with emphasis on physical processes and geophysical aspects related to the evolution of the Earth's plate system. Organized primarily as seminars and discussions, supplemented ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 512 - Earth System Science

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 An examination of the interrelationships between the complex systems operating in the solid Earth, hydrosphere and atmosphere; methods of systems analysis for the planet; modelling of global processes, especially past ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 513 - Advanced Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 A seminar style course focusing on advanced topics in igneous and metamorphic petrology and how the tools of petrology can be used for geodynamic reconstructions. Course reviews: 0

EOS 516A - Ocean Acoustics I

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 An introduction to the ocean as an acoustic medium, sound sources in the ocean, ray theory, normal modes, reflection and refraction processes at ocean boundaries and discussion of sound propagation ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 516B - Ocean Acoustics II

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Theory and applications of ocean acoustic propagation modelling and acoustic signal processing. Propagation modelling topics to be considered include the normal-mode model including adiabatic and coupled modes and the ray-mode ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 519 - Selected Topics in Geophysics

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Graduate course in the Course reviews: 0

EOS 523 - Seismology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Theoretical and practical aspects of seismic wave propagation, earthquake seismology, and processing and interpretation of reflection and refraction data. Course reviews: 0

EOS 525 - Research Frontiers in Earth and Ocean Science

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 This interdisciplinary Earth and Ocean Sciences course examines, in detail, global topics that are current, significant and which require input and integration across diverse disciplines. The specific topics change annually ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 526 - Inverse Theory in Earth and Ocean Sciences

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Inverse theory and its applications in Earth and Ocean Sciences. Topics include non-uniqueness, general linear least-squares, singular-value decomposition, regularization, linearization, global inversion, Bayesian inversion, and Markov-chain Monte Carlo methods. Applications ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 530 - Waves in the Ocean

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 The physics and mathematical theories of surface gravity waves, internal waves, Rossby waves and other wave motions in the ocean are introduced, with an emphasis on general results that describe ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 531 - Physical Oceanography

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 Physical properties of sea water, equation of state, gravitational stability, large-scale ocean currents, meridional distribution of salinity and temperature, surface heat budgets, water masses, estuary flows. Course reviews: 0

EOS 534 - Ocean Mixing Processes

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 The distribution of properties in the ocean and ocean circulation are greatly influenced by small-scale processes that cannot be explicitly included in numerical models of the ocean. The physics and ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 537 - Isotopes in Earth and Ocean Sciences

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Basic principles controlling isotope distributions, including natural abundances, radiogenic decay, equilibrium and kinetic isotope effects. Applications of these principles in the fields of: 1) Earth history - global processes and ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 538 - Aqueous Geochemistry and the Environment

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
 Major aspects of the global water cycle, sources, sinks of chemical elements present in aquatic systems, weathering reactions, solution geochemistry of oxic and anoxic environments in natural aquatic systems (rainwaters, ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 540 - Hydrosphere-Lithosphere Reactions in Hydrogeology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 The location, chemistry, age and migration of fluids in the Earth's crust and surficial deposits. Theory of groundwater flow, surface-groundwater interactions, changes in groundwater quality, and isotope hydrogeology. Minor treatment ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 550 - The Ocean-Atmosphere System

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Studies of the Earth's climate require an understanding of the intimate links between the ocean and atmosphere. Basic theories of the circulation of each are discussed and the physics of ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 551 - Introductory Dynamic Meteorology

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 An introduction to the dynamics and thermodynamics of rotating atmospheres. Topics include: equations of motion, circulation theorems, geostrophy and quasigeostrophy, boundary layer dynamics, waves in the atmosphere, barotropic and baroclinic ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 552 - Numerical Methods in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Description of numerical models used to investigate the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean. Specific topics to be discussed include finite differencing techniques; finite difference approximations; computational instability, accuracy ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 560 - Time Series Analysis

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Many data sets in the ocean and Earth sciences arise from continuous sampling in either space or time. Analysis techniques are based on spectral (Fourier) decomposition, starting with univariate analysis ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 570 - Graduate Student Workshop

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
  • Spring
 Registered students are required to present results of their research at the SEOS Annual Graduate Student Workshop normally held every spring. EOS 570 should be taken prior to degree completion, ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 580 - Directed Studies

2011/2012 academic year:
  • not scheduled, yet
 Designed to enable students to pursue individual interests. Course reviews: 0

EOS 599 - MSc Thesis

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
  • Spring
  • Summer
 The thesis or dissertation requirement for advanced degrees (599 or 699) applies to all students in the School. Course reviews: 0

EOS 693 - PhD Candidacy Examination

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
  • Spring
  • Summer
 Students must enrol in EOS 693 for the duration of their preparation for their candidacy examinations. This begins when the student has their pre-candidacy committee meeting and continues until candidacy ... Course reviews: 0

EOS 699 - PhD Dissertation

2011/2012 academic year:
  • Fall
  • Spring
  • Summer
 The thesis or dissertation requirement for advanced degrees (599 or 699) applies to all students in the School. Course reviews: 0

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