School of Science and Engineering: Earth and Environmental Sciences
2008-2009 Academic Year
626
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Office:
101 Blessey Hall
Phone:
(504) 865-5198
Fax:
(504) 865-5199
Website:
www.tulane.edu/~eens/
Professors
Ronald L. Parsley, Ph.D., Cincinnati
Associate Professors
Nancye H. Dawers, Ph.D., Columbia
George C. Flowers, Ph.D., California, Berkeley
Karen H. Johannesson, Ph.D., Nevada, Reno
Stephen A. Nelson, Ph.D., California, Berkeley (Chair)
Torbjörn Törnqvist, Ph.D., Utrecht
Assistant Professors
Nicole M. Gasparini, Ph.D., MIT
Bradley E. Rosenheim, Ph.D., Miami
Professors of the Practice
Sadredin C. Moosavi, Ph.D., New Hampshire
Gerhard Piringer, Ph.D., Tulane
The major in geology provides students with an understanding of the materials
that make up the Earth and the physical, chemical, and biological processes that
have operated on and within the Earth throughout its history.
The major consists of a minimum of ten courses including EENS 111/113,
112/114, 211, 212, 327, 340, 399, 609, and two additional 600-level courses
including accompanying laboratories where scheduled. Students must earn a C- or
better in 211 to qualify for further enrollment in EENS courses. All majors must
complete Chemistry 107 and 108 and accompanying laboratories 117 and 118;
and Physics 121 and 122, or 131 and 132, with laboratories. Mathematics must be
Calculus 121 and 122, or Consolidated Calculus 131. Introduction to Calculus
115 and 116 may substitute for Calculus 121. These supporting science and
mathematics courses may not be taken satisfactory /unsatisfactory. In the senior
year, all students are required to complete a capstone experience course. In the
junior and senior years, students preparing to enter graduate school are strongly
urged to elect additional courses in their discipline; this may result in students
attaining more than the total number of credits required for graduation (see
Newcomb-Tulane core curriculum for provisions for earning graduate credit in
the senior year). All majors are expected to participate in certain departmental