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Planet Earth

Earth & Environmental Science V1053y

 

Assessment:

·        25%: Content mastery quizzes (you can make up missed content quizzes at office hours, limit two make-ups per semester) AND in-class activities (there are no make-up sessions for in-class activities, but we drop the two lowest scores for the semester.

·        25%: midterm exam

·        You will identify an unanswered question in earth sciences that interests you, and write a 4-page proposal that contains a strategy to help solve it.  Your strategy could involve describing how you will make measurements, collect samples, analyze them, build a model, or any other approach that might constrain or answer the question you have posed.  You do not have to answer the question: you only have to pose the question clearly, and outline a viable course of action, which, if followed, has a decent chance of helping to answer the question. Maximum length: four pages! Due electronically the last week of class, and NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED

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