Philosophy
  My teaching includes undergraduate courses in oceanography, aqueous geochemistry and earth systems, and graduate courses in chemical oceanography, paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. Students in my group also benefit from classes and interaction with the many other scholars doing marine, climate and earth systems research at UCSB.

Courses Taught
 

GS 4 Introduction to Oceanography
An introduction to oceanography covering the major physical, chemical, and geological features of the oceans, their role in earth history, and potential use as a natural resource.

GS 124 Aqueous Geochemistry (not currently offered)
An introduction to the geochemistry of natural waters. Covers solution thermodynamics and equilibrium, the carbonate system and pH control, redox reactions, rock weathering and the hydrological cycle, and controls on the composition of fresh and salt waters. This is a five week course.

GS 130 Global Warming - Science and Society
Introduction to the scientific and societal issues surrounding global climate change. Includes introduction to physical climatology, greenhouse effect, climate history, anthropogenic changes, and future predictions. Student discussion and debate on the potential societal scenarios available to mitigate future climate change.

This course is the newest one I have developed. I taught it for the first time in winter 2004 to 50 students from 20 different majors. Much of the course was based on "real-time" information from the web, including the latest controversies surrounding global warming.

GS 164B Earth-System Ocean Atmosphere
An introduction to the chemistry of the oceans and atmosphere. Topics include composition of seawater, biogeochemical cycling, sediment chemistry, chemical tracers of circulation, ocean-atmosphere exchange, atmospheric photochemistry and pollution, and the impact of earth system chemical changes on climate.

GS182/282 Field Studies

GS 198 Readings in the Geological Sciences
Critical reviews and discussions of selected geological subjects.

GS 266 Chemical Oceanography
An introduction to the chemistry of the oceans. Topics include composition and chemical equilibrium of seawater, biogeochemical cycling, sediment chemistry, atmospheric exchange, circulation and rates of mixing based on chemical tracers, and the impact of ocean chemistry on climate change.

This course has an admirable alumni list, including Jess Adkins (Faculty member, Caltech), Ben Flower (Faculty member, USF), Frank Corsetti (Faculty member, USC), Christina de la Rocha (Researcher, AWI, Germany), Stephen Swearer (Faculty member, University of Melbourne, Australia), Pamela Martin (Faculty member, University of Chicago)and Ingrid Hendy (Faculty member, University of Michigan).

GS 167/267 Climates of the Past (not currently offered)
Introduction to climate and ocean history. Techniques used to reconstruct terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric conditions. Evolution of climate over the last million years. Theories of climate change, including Milankovich hypothesis, greenhouse effect and internal feedback. Anthropogenic climate change.

GS 270 Seminar in Geologic Problems
Review and discussion of a current problems in geology.

Note: Course descriptions taken from the UC Santa Barbara General Catalog 1999-2000.