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Earth Systems Science & Policy Descriptions
For catalog cycle Fall 2007 to Spring 2009
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ESSP 195: Special Topics
Effective Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Studies a particular topic in Earth Systems Science & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 197: Independent Study
Effective Aug 22, 2005 View History
Description:
Independent study for first-year students. Students must obtain the signature/approval of their independent study supervisor before enrolling in ESSP 197. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 200: Nature Photography
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Teaches the skills and knowledge needed to create captivating still photographs of animals, plants, landscapes, and other natural subjects. Explores the art, history, and science of nature photography as a tool for discovery and communication. Students must have a digital SLR camera (or other digital camera featuring manual exposure control and either interchangeable lenses or optical zoom) and tripod. Contract instructor or see course website for detailed equipment requirements. Three full-day field trips scheduled during weekends. Does not cover digital image editing techniques or video. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 201: The Nature of Science
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Introduces science as a method of studying and understanding the natural world. Promotes critical thinking, problem solving, and scientific literacy through an understanding of the process and product of scientific inquiry. For non-science majors. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 201L)
ESSP 201L: Nature of Science Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 201. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 201)
ESSP 202: Human Interactn W/Environ
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Surveys current scientific and environmental topics students should understand to make informed decisions in their lives. Topics may include genetically modified organisms, cloning, human population growth, water resources, pesticides, and global warming. For nonscience majors. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: MATH 99 OR MATH 100)
ESSP 211: Intro to Science & Env. Policy
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Develops college-level reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking, and listening skills in a science and environmental policy context. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: WRT 95) OR (EPT4 SCORE 151)]
ESSP 212: Ethics, Science & Env. Policy
Effective Jan 22, 2008 View History
Description:
Introduces ethical theory in a science and environmental policy context. Students develop personal statements of ethics combining analysis with introspection. Develops reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking, and listening skills. Prerequisite: Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the ENGCOM A ULR. (Offered spring semesters.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 230: Electronic Projects for MATE
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
An introduction to practical electronics and environmental measurement for students enrolling through the Marine Advanced Technology and Education (MATE) Center. Students design, build, and test their own electronic instruments to record environmental variables. (Offered fall semester of even years.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 230L)
ESSP 230L: Electronic Proj for MATE Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 230. (Offered fall semester of even years.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 230)
ESSP 271: The Oceans
Effective Apr 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Introduction to the major physical, chemical, biological, and geological features and processes of the Earth's ocean. Special emphasis is placed on developing an integrated understanding of physical and biological processes and the interactions of people with the marine environment. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: MATH 99 OR ELMT SCORE 50)
ESSP 272: The Atmosphere
Effective Apr 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Introduction to the chemical and physical nature of the atmosphere. Topics include weather and climate, storms, general air circulation, descriptive meteorology, clouds, and atmosphere-ocean interactions. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: MATH 99 OR ELMT SCORE 50)
ESSP 280: Econ, Policy & Management
Inactive as of Jun 2, 2008 View History
Description:
Covers principles of both economics and government and applies these to environmental valuation, policies, and management of natural resources. Students apply economic theory and policy analysis to evaluate environmental problems and policies, particularly in marine and coastal ecosystems. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)(Final offering Spring, 2007, then will be replaced by ESSP 283 & 284.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 282: Mtry Bay:Case Sty Env Sci &Pol
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Introduces the physical, biological, and geological sciences of Global Oceanography, with emphasis on the Monterey Bay area. Discusses human impacts on the region and the state and federal policies established to protect the Monterey Bay region. For non-science majors. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 283: Politics & the Environment
Effective Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Covers fundamentals of government, particularly how the US Constitution and the structure and processes of democracy affect current environmental and natural resource issues. Provides comparisons between US, California state and local government and how each of these affect their lives. Students track media coverage of governmental and environmental issues to understand how government works. Students learn how to engage in politics to make change. Prerequisite: Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the ENGCOM A ULR. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 284: Envi Econ & Management
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Covers principles of microeconomics and applies these to environmental valuation and management of natural resources. Students apply economic theory to evaluate environmental problems and policies, particularly in marine and coastal ecosystems. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: MATH 150)
ESSP 295: Special Topics
Effective Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Studies a particular topic in Earth Systems Science & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 297: Independent Study
Effective Jan 22, 2008 View History
Description:
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: MATH 150 OR BIO 240 OR GEOL 260 OR ESSP 280 OR ESSP 283) AND (ESSP 284) AND (INCLUDE JUNIOR AND SENIOR)]
ESSP 300: Read, Writ & Crit Thnk in ESSP
Effective Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Students develop library research, writing, and critical analysis skills they will need to link science to policy decisions. Students develop a learning plan that integrates their ESSP concentration, capstone interests, and personal and professional goals. Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the ENGCOM A ULR, or equivalent. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 300L: Read Write Crit Think ESSP Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Optional computer lab course for ESSP 300. Designed for students in ESSP 300 who have not previously fulfilled the Tech/Info ULR. Provides hands-on experience with information literacy and literature searches, reference evaluation, advanced word processing, electronic presentations, spreadsheet design and manipulation, and webpage development. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 300)
ESSP 301: Ecosys Srvs: Sci&Econ Anl
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Analyzes the services and goods provided by natural ecosystems in Monterey Bay. Explores the scientific framework of ecosystem services, their disruption or disturbance, economic and ecological values, methods of analyzing these values, and policy implications. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: ESSP 283 OR ESSP 284) AND (MATH 150 AND BIO 240)]
ESSP 303: Calif Transect Orien
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Mandatory orientation for ESSP 303L. This classroom component of California Transect prepares students for the summer field course (ESSP 303L) by introducing topics in California's scientific, cultural, and political history and current issues that will be examined in detail during the summer field course (ESSP 303L). May require one weekend field trip. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: BIO 240 AND ESSP 283 AND ESSP 284 AND GEOL 260) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 303L)]
ESSP 303L: California Transect Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Two-week summer field course. Students explore California's unique ecosystems using a case-studies framework emphasizing the interaction between natural processes and human impacts. Involves camping and hiking. Course fee charged for food, transportation, and camping. (Offered spring semester or summer session.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 303)
ESSP 309: Sci & Policy of Global Change
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Examines the scientific, economic, and political dimensions of global climate change. Examines the greenhouse effect, global climate change, and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and IPCC reports in reducing human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. Focuses on trends in population, dynamics, development policy and environmental heath impacts. (Offered spring semester of even years.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: BIO 240 OR GEOL 260) AND (ESSP 280 OR ESSP 283) AND (ESSP 284)]
ESSP 330: Electronics for Ecol Research
Inactive as of Aug 25, 2008 View History
Description:
Introduces practical electronics, emphasizing circuits used to measure and record environmental data. Covers key environmental parameters, sensors, A/D conversion, microcontroller programming, data transmission & display, selection and use of scientific instruments for environmental data collection. Each student designs and builds an instrument to measure and record underwater light, temperature, and conductivity in marine or freshwater habitat. (Offered fall semester of odd years.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: MATH 151 OR PHYS 220) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 330L)]
ESSP 330L: Electronics Lab
Inactive as of Aug 25, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 330. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall semester of odd years.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 330)
ESSP 332: Intro to GIS/GPS
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Theory and application of spatial data acquisition, analysis, and display using an integrated, hands-on, project-based approach. Covers geographic information systems (GIS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS). Course completion results in ArcGIS certification from ESRI and GPS Mapping certification from Trimble Navigation (TerraSync). (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: CST 101) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 332L)]
ESSP 332L: Intro to GIS & GPS Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 332. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 332)
ESSP 349S: Natural History Interpretation
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Focuses on techniques for teaching the natural and cultural history of the Monterey Bay area to different age and cultural groups. Students develop and/or present interpretive products from organizations such as CA State Parks, Bureau of Land Management, and Return of the Natives for school groups. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
4 to 5 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: BIO 240) AND (INCLUDE JUNIOR, SENIOR AND POST BAC AND GRADUATE)
ESSP 350: Quantitative Field Methds
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Project-oriented course covers techniques in statistics, experimental design, and field methodology to characterize the ecological patterns in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. May include one or more weekend field trips. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: BIO 240 OR GEOL 260) AND (STAT 250) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 350L)
ESSP 350L: Quant Field Methods Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 350. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 350)
ESSP 355: Environmental Monitoring
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Project-oriented course covers techniques in experimental design, data analysis, and field and laboratory methods of soil and water analysis in the context of local soil and water chemistry problems. May include one or more weekend field trips. (Offered as demand warrants.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: STAT 200 OR STAT 250) AND (CHEM 111 OR GEOL 260) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 355L)]
ESSP 355L: Environmental Monitoring Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 355.
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 355)
ESSP 369S: Com-Based Watershed Restor SL
Effective Aug 22, 2005 View History
Description:
Hands-on watershed restoration, landscape planning, and implementation with native plants. Community service experience through projects with schools and community agencies. Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the Science ULR. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 380: Envrnmntl & Resource Econ
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Applies theories and tools of economics to allocation of natural resources, causes of environmental damage, and the link between economics and environmental change. (Offered fall semester of odd years.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: ESSP 280 OR ESSP 284) AND (MATH 151)]
ESSP 384S: Envir Justice & Envir Poli SL
Effective Mar 14, 2008 View History
Description:
Analyzes environmental justice movement, focusing on case studies and students' personal connections to the issues considered. Questions the identity of those empowered (or not) to control environmental decision making, how power is gained and lost, the burdens of inequitable distribution of resources, and the price of environmental pollution. Service learning placements help students understand course material. Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the ENGCOM A ULR. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
5 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 386: Sci, Enviro & Polit Process
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Examines how science influences policy in the real world. Emphasis on case studies and experiential learning. All students complete an environmental policy brief that they design. Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the ENGCOM ULR. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: ESSP 283) OR (INCLUDE JUNIOR AND SENIOR AND POST BAC AND GRADUATE)
ESSP 387: Water Resource Assess/Law/Poli
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Explores: issues of water resources globally and in the western United States as a fundamental factor in economic development and policy; geologic environments of surface and ground water; policy view of the hydrologic balance in the Monterey Peninsula; and the development and changing interpretations of water law, policy, and economics. Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the ENGCOM A ULR. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: GEOL 260)
ESSP 394: Junior Internship
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Students work with practicing professionals in the community in a volunteer or paid internship that requires critical thinking and specialized science, policy, or technical skills. Academic credit is awarded for documented learning that takes place during the internship and that meets individualized and core internship outcomes. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
2 to 4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 395: Special Topics in ESSP
Effective Aug 22, 2005 View History
Description:
Studies a particular topic in Earth Systems Science & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 397: Independent Study
Effective Jan 23, 2006 View History
Description:
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 397S: Indep.Study: Earth Systems SL
Effective Jan 24, 2005 View History
Description:
Students work with public and private organizations on projects that integrate scientific skills with needs of multicultural communities. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 400: Capstone Seminar I
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Students work with the instructor, their faculty Capstone advisor, and other students to develop a proposal for their Senior Capstone project. Capstone projects must demonstrate an ability to use a systems approach to analyze and/or solve problems in Earth Systems Science & Policy. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
1 to 2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: ESSP 300)
ESSP 403: Capstone Seminar II
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Assists students in completing the Capstone project developed in ESSP 400, including a written Capstone report and an oral presentation to ESSP faculty and students. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: ESSP 400)
ESSP 423: Signal Processing
Inactive as of Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Introduces the analysis and applications of signals, systems, and time-series data. Applies signal processing and the Matlab programming language to the location, analysis, interpretation, and enhancement of signals in communications, geophysics, biology, speech, and acoustics. Covers fast-Fourier transform, digital filters, convolution, sampling and reconstruction, and spectral estimation. (Offered spring semester when sufficient demand.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 430: Robotic Proj. f/ Ecosys. Obs
Inactive as of Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Students work in teams to design, build, test, and deploy remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), remote-controlled web-cameras, or other robotic technologies for observing, monitoring, and managing terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Prior computer programming or networking experience recommended. (Offered fall semester of even years as demand warrants .)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 430L: Robotic Projects Lab
Inactive as of Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 430. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall semester of even years as demand warrants.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 433: App Mar Sci Tech
Effective Jun 12, 2008 View History
Description:
Project-based course applies advanced technologies for data acquisition, analysis, and display to current marine research initiatives and environmental issues. Hands-on application of sidescan and multibeam sonar, geographic information systems (GIS), quantitative video habitat mapping, computer modeling, remote sensing, image processing, hydrographic mapping, and Global Positioning System (GPS). (Offered fall or spring semester.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: (BIO 345 OR ESSP 345) AND ESSP 332 AND PHYS 220) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 433L)]
ESSP 433L: Appl of Mar Sci Tech Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 433. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall or spring semester.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 433)
ESSP 436: Rmt Sns/Image Process
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Applications of geospatial information technology and geodata manipulation and analysis in the management of natural resources, including remote sensing, aerial photography, image processing, georeferencing, georecertification, and quantitative information extraction from multispectral and other image data. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: ESSP 332 AND ESSP 332L) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 436L)]
ESSP 436L: Rmt Sns/Image Process Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 436. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 436)
ESSP 440: Environmental Modeling
Effective Jun 13, 2008 View History
Description:
Teaches the process of designing, building, and using computer models for use within applied environmental science. Covers key examples within ecological and hydrological modeling e.g. population dynamics, and water flow. Introduces students to different modeling paradigms, including: systems dynamics, statistical habitat selection, and simulated vs analytical solutions. Software usage draws from Stella, VenSim, Excel, Visual Basic, and statistical packages. Includes individual student projects. Must have received a grade of B- or better in Math 151. (Offered fall semester as demand warrants.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[Prerequisites: (MATH 151) AND (BIO 340 OR GEOL 360)]
ESSP 441: Global Bgc Cycles
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: BIO 240 AND CHEM 211 AND ESSP 332 AND GEOL 260) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 441L)]
ESSP 441L: Global Bgc Cycles Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 441)
ESSP 442: Vernal Pools of Ft Ord
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
This field-oriented course is an in-depth exploration of a local, threatened ecosystem. Students get experience doing science research projects and reading primary scientific literature on vernal pool organisms, ecology, chemistry, and soils. Focuses on organismal taxonomy. May include weekend or odd-hour field trips. (Offered spring semester of even years.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: ESSP 350) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 442L)]
ESSP 442L: Vernal Pools of Ft Ord Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 442. (Offered spring semester of odd years.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 442)
ESSP 470: Marine Conservation Biology
Effective Mar 14, 2008 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: BIO 340 AND BIO 345 AND ESSP 300)
ESSP 480: Ecological Economics
Effective Jan 29, 1997 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 486: Coastal Zone Policy & Mgmnt
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Draws upon student skills of research, writing, analysis, and creative thinking. Offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the principles and strategies for managing the coastal zone. Combines the disciplines of policy, economics, planning, geology, biology, ecology, and organizational management. Structured to accommodate and complement students' Capstone topics to enable them to create a strong policy component. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: ESSP 386)
ESSP 495: Special Topics
Effective Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Studies a particular topic in Earth Systems Science & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 497: Capstone Independent Study
Effective Jan 24, 2005 View History
Description:
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 497S: Capstone Indep Study:ES/SL
Effective Aug 22, 2005 View History
Description:
Enables students to integrate citizenship, academic subjects, skills, and values into their Senior Capstone projects. Students work with public and private organizations on projects that integrate scientific skills with needs of multicultural communities. Students maintain weekly journals covering self, community, public education, and professional community responsibility. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
2 to 4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 500: Graduate Seminar 1
Effective Jun 20, 2005 View History
Description:
A seminar that familiarizes students with the Coastal and Watershed Science & Policy program components and assists them in developing research proposals. Takes a case-study approach to understanding the process of developing and approving environmental policy, and in identifying and comparing major stakeholders, their interests, and their roles in the development and approval of policies that address current environmental problems. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 502: Graduate Seminar II
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(EXCLUDE: 1ST TIME FRESHMEN AND FRESHMEN AND SOPHMORE AND JUNIOR AND SENIOR)
ESSP 521: Create GIS Field Project
Effective Jun 5, 2006 View History
Description:
Walks educators through each step of creating their own GIS project. Participants gather data from a variety of sources, including GPS, and create a marine and coastal map that communicates a variety of issues. Issues can include marine protected areas, coastal development, invasive species, water quality, ocean observing systems, and marine fisheries. Participants also create a lesson plan to use with their interactive map.
Units
2 to 3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 530: Electronics for Grad Research
Inactive as of Aug 25, 2008 View History
Description:
Provides a practical foundation in basic electronic circuit design, construction, and repair to assist science graduate students who may need to select, use, repair, or invent electronic equipment to complete their graduate thesis project. (Offered fall semester of odd years.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: MATH 151 OR PHYS 220) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 530L)]
ESSP 530L: Electronics Lab
Inactive as of Aug 25, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 530.
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 530)
ESSP 531: Bld Rem-Op Vhcls for Classroom
Effective Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Provides a forum for educators, especially those interested in participating in MATE student ROV competitions, to: (1) acquire the knowledge and skills needed to implement an ROV design and building curriculum that is aligned with the country's workforce needs; (2) gain an understanding of the type of work that ROV technicians do; and (3) learn about the many career opportunities available in the submersible-technology field. (Offered through Extended Ed.)
Units
2 to 3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 532: Advanced GIS&Spatial Analysis
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Theory and application of advanced spatial data acquisition, analysis, and display using an integrated, hands-on, project-based approach. Use of geographic information systems (GIS) for spatial analysis, hypothesis testing, and decision making. Theory and practice of advanced GIS topics and methods such as raster analysis, dynamic segmentation, geocoding, spatial statistics, and geodatabase design. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
2 to 3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: CST 101) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 532L)]
ESSP 532D: Applied/GIS/GPS/REM
Inactive as of Jan 22, 2008 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 532L: Ad GIS&Spatial Anaylsis Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 532.
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 532)
ESSP 533: Mar Geospa Tech & Seafloor Map
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Applies current hydrographic survey techniques to marine habitat mapping. Utilizes the CSUMB Seafloor Mapping Lab seafloor mapping system and vessel for survey design, data acquisition, analysis, and display. Technologies include sidescan sonar, multibeam bathymetry, hydrographic survey design, ROV, acoustic tracking, motion correction, GIS, GPS and vessel navigation. (Offered fall or spring semester.)
Units
1 to 3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: ESSP 332 AND PHY 220) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 533L)]
ESSP 533L: Mar Geospa Tech & Seafloor Map
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 533. Lab course fee may be charged.
Units
1 to 2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 533)
ESSP 536: Remote Sns & Image Process
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Applications of geospatial information technology and geodata manipulation and analysis in the management of natural resources, including remote sensing, aerial photography, image processing, georeferencing, georecertification, and quantitative information extraction from multispectral and other image data. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Corequisites: ESSP 536L) AND (EXCLUDE 1ST TIME FRESHMEN AND FRESHMEN AND SOPHMORE AND JUNIOR AND SENIOR)]
ESSP 536L: Remote Sns & Image Process Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 536. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Corequisites: ESSP 536) AND (EXCLUDE 1ST TIME FRESHMEN AND FRESHMEN AND SOPHMORE AND JUNIOR AND SENIOR)]
ESSP 540: Environmental Modeling
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Teaches the process of designing, building, and using computer models for use within applied environmental science. Covers key examples within ecological and hydrological modeling e.g. population dynamics, and water flow. Introduces students to different modeling paradigms, including: systems dynamics, statistical habitat selection, and simulated vs analytical solutions. Software usage draws from Stella, VenSim, Excel, Visual Basic, and statistical packages. Includes individual student projects. Must have received a grade of B- or better in Math 151. (Offered fall semester as demand warrants.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[Prerequisites: (MATH 151 AND BIO 340) OR (GEOL 360) AND (EXCLUDE 1ST TIME FRESHMEN AND FRESHMEN AND SOPHMORE AND JUNIOR)]
ESSP 541: Mar Biotech&BioInform for Teac
Inactive as of Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 541L: Mar Biotech&BioInfor Lab
Inactive as of Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
2 to 3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 542: Vernal Pools of Fort Ord
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
This graduate-level field-oriented course is an in-depth exploration of a local, threatened ecosystem. Students get experience doing science research projects and reading primary scientific literature on vernal pool organisms, ecology, chemistry, and soils. Focuses on organismal taxonomy. May include weekend or odd-hour field trips. (Offered spring semester of odd years.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: ESSP 350 OR ESSP 550) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 542L)
ESSP 542L: Vernal Pools of Fort Ord Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 542. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered spring semester of odd years.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 542)
ESSP 545: Marine Ecological Systems
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Examines the fundamentals of marine ecology, emphasizing experimental design and use of technologies that are appropriately scaled to answer management questions. Lectures emphasize the processes contributing to the structure and organization of marine communities, the role of humans as a major source of disturbance, and the efficacy of current management paradigms. Laboratories emphasize current technologies and analytical approaches used in the study of sub-tidal marine communities. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: BIO 345 AND STAT 250) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 545L) AND (EXCLUDE 1ST TIME FRESHMEN AND FRESHMEN AND SOPHMORE AND JUNIOR)]
ESSP 545L: Marine Ecological Systems Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 545. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Corequisites: ESSP 545) AND (EXCLUDE 1ST TIME FRESHMEN AND FRESHMEN AND SOPHMORE AND JUNIOR)]
ESSP 550: Research Methods
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Covers the concepts of scientific method (theories, propositions, hypotheses, etc.); how to design research questions; practical techniques of experimental design, statistical inference, and information theoretic methods; successful proposal; and communication of scientific results. Emphasizes effective linkage between science policy with respect to achieving levels of scientific quality, clarity, and relevance appropriate to real-world situations. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Corequisites: ESSP 550L) AND EXCLUDE: 1ST TIME FRESHMEN AND FRESHMEN AND SOPHMORE AND JUNIOR AND SENIOR)]
ESSP 550L: Research Methods Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 550. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Corequisites: ESSP 550) AND (EXCLUDE 1ST TIME FRESHMEN AND FRESHMEN AND SOPHMORE AND JUNIOR)]
ESSP 560: Watershed Systems
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Develops interdisciplinary skills to address complex environmental issues. Skill sets will be in the fields of hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, water quality, and ecology. Topics include environmental policy/agency framework, current environmental issues, and physical/ecological processes in natural and impacted wateshed systems. May require weekend field trips. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
2 to 3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[(Prerequisites: GEOL 460) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 560L)]
ESSP 560L: Watershed Systems Lab
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Required lab course for 560. Practical exercises in understanding, communicating, and solving environmental issues introduced in ESSP 560. Includes data acquisition, analysis, and computer modeling using HEC-RAS, GIS, and other software packages. Lab fee may be charged. (Offered spring semester.)
Units
1 to 2 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Corequisites: ESSP 560)
ESSP 561: Watershed Systems Restoration
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Explores the rehabilitation and management of damaged ecosystems focusing on rivers, estuaries, and wetlands. Covers the systems approach, ecologic principles, hydrologic processes, soils, erosion, and improvement structures. Emphasizes real situations using case studies and experimental restoration work. Includes several weekend field trips. (Offered spring semester of odd years.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[Prerequisites: (CHEM 111 OR GEOL 360) AND (Corequisites: ESSP 561L)]
ESSP 561L: Watershed Systems Restor. Lab
Effective Jan 23, 2006 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 561.
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 580: Envir & Resource Eco:App&Meth
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Students use a standard input/output model framework to estimate economic values at regional scales. Develops economic growth and bio-economic models in a dynamic and spatial framework applied to management of California's marine resources. Introduces statistical (econometric) estimation and analyses of linear regression models, time-series models, travel cost models, and random utility models. (Offered fall semester of odd years.)
Units
3 to 4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
[Prerequisites: (ESSP 280 OR ESSP 283) AND (ESSP 284)]
ESSP 586: Coastal Zone Policy & Mangmt
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Policy course draws upon student skills of research, writing, analysis, and creative thinking. Offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the principles and strategies for managing the coastal zone. Combines the disciplines of policy, economics, planning, geology, biology, ecology, a bit of chemistry, and organizational management. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: ESSP 486)
ESSP 590S: Adv Topics:Marine Pollutn
Effective Sep 3, 1996 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 594: Internship - Graduate
Effective Jan 29, 2001 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 595: Special Topics in ESSP
Effective Jan 22, 2007 View History
Description:
Studies a particular topic in Earth Systems Science & Policy. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 595L: Special Topics in ESSP
Effective Aug 26, 2002 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 596: Field Studies
Effective Aug 28, 1995 View History
Description:
No Description Provided
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 597: Independent Study
Effective Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits. (Offered only as interest warrants.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 599: Masters Thesis
Effective Jan 22, 2008 View History
Description:
Faculty-mentored, independent research leading toward completion of the MS thesis. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits that count toward the degree. Requires approval of the thesis advisor. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)
Units
1 to 6 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 645: Adv Marine Sci & Pol
Effective Feb 15, 2008 View History
Description:
Draws on the tenets of marine conservation biology, and related disciplines, to prepare scientists for engagement in policy formulation and management at a variety of levels. Provides a detailed assessment of the field of marine conservation biology, link ecological processes to threats and solutions, and define the human and legal dimensions of marine conservation. Explores specific conservation scenarios with case studies from the Monterey Bay region and beyond. (Offered fall semester as demand warrants.)
Units
3 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: ESSP 595)
ESSP 645L: Adv Marine Science & Pol Lab
Effective Aug 27, 2007 View History
Description:
Required lab course for ESSP 645. Lab course fee may be charged. (Offered fall semester as demand warrants.)
Units
1 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
None
ESSP 660: Adv Watershed Sci & Policy
Effective Mar 17, 2008 View History
Description:
Addresses current watershed environmental issues using advanced research methods and sound science. Considers issues from multiple perspectives, including legal, political, diverse stakeholders, and natural science. Students present project results in both written and oral formats, utilizing innovative visualizations, as necessary, to communicate technical science to decision-makers or non-specialists. (Offered fall semester.)
Units
4 Units
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions:
(Prerequisites: ESSP 550 AND ESSP 560)
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