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Geology
300: Physical Geology
Geology
301: Physical Geology Lab
Geology
305: Earth Science
Geology
306: Earth Science Lab
Instructor: Arthur Reed, P.G.
Links to short Earth Science Videos:
Careers in Geosciences
Ø Careers
overview, by the American Geological
Institute
Atmosphere & Climate
Ø Simplified
800,000yr history of T and CO2 (BBC)
Ø Attracting
lightning (Sci Friday)
Ø All about
carbon (NPR)
Ø Global
atmospheric circulation explained
Ø Michael
Oppenheimer on global warming (Sci Friday)
Ø Storing
CO2 in basalt (NPR)
Ø Interview
with the World Bank Climate Change Czar (KQED)
Ø Fog
in San Francisco (KQED)
Ø Turning
carbon dioxide into stone (NPR)
Oceans (incl coasts)
Ø Charting
the ocean floor – CSU Monterrey Bay (KQED)
Ø European
Space Agency’s new gravity mapping satellite
Ø Gulf
Stream at risk of ending?? (PBS)
Ø Underwater
laboratory in Monterrey Bay (KQED)
Ø A
“light up” squid (Sci Friday)
Ø Science
of ocean waves at Mavericks (KQED)
Ø Underwater
flight (KQED) A
scientist’s first deep descent (OneOcean)
Ø Tsunamis (KQED)
Ø Tsunami
(Nat
Geographic)
Ø Oceans
panel broadcast (Sci Friday)
Ø A
library of seafloor mud (NPR)
Ø Seafloor
life at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (BBC)
Ø Laboratory
turbidity current experiments
Ø Light
from deep sea animals (Sci Friday)
Ø Ultra
deep water oil drilling (video from an oil company)
Ø Amazing
jellyfish (KQED)
Ø Great
White Sharks near the Farallon Islands (KQED)
Ø Life
on the Farallon Islands (KQED)
Ø Sea
level rise around the S.F. Bay (KQED)
Ø Science
of big waves (KQED)
Ø Importance
of ocean upwelling (OneOcean)
Ø Beach
dune rebuilding after storms (NPR)
Ø Beach
replenishment after east coast storms (worth the cost?…MSNBC)
Earth
Ø Video
of the formation of pillow basalt, near Hawaii
Ø Geothermal
heats up (KQED)
Ø Earthquakes
– breaking new ground (KQED)
Ø The
new San Francisco Bay bridge (KQED)
Ø The
Hayward Fault – Predicting Peril (KQED)
Ø USGS
talks about recent large quakes (March 2010)
Ø Sibley
Volcanic Park near SF (KQED)
Ø Landslide
Detectives (KQED)
Ø Personal
story of a La Conchita landslide survivor/hero (NPR)
Ø SF
Bay Area during the Ice Ages (KQED)
Ø The
lost Persian army found buried by sandstorm
Ø The
Sahara’s wetter days (Sci Friday)
Ø Live
video of debris flow in Italy, February 2010
Ø Flyover
of the 2010 New Zealand fault scarps (GNS Science)
Ø European
Space Agency’s gravity mapping satellite
Ø Florescent
minerals on display in Virginia (Sci Friday)
Ø Bridge
quake simulator in Reno (Univ of Nevada)
Ø This
field of boulders is glacial in origin (?) (Sci Friday)
Ø Earthquake
magnitude scale explained (Live Science)
Ø Soil
Life Explained (BBC)
Space
Ø Earth
from spaceship Cassini as it leaves our solar system (NPR)
Ø Moon quiz
(KQED)
Ø The
Northern Lights (KQED)
Ø Elementary
explanation of orbiting (SIRTF Science Ctr)
Ø Mars
landscape in paint (Sci Friday)
Ø Humorous
skit on the awesomeness of the Universe (Sci Friday)
Ø Pluto’s
demotion explained (NPR)
Ø Time
lapse photography from the Space Station (Sci Friday)
Ø Water
balloons in zero gravity (space) (NPR)
Ø How
the Hubble Space Telescope works
Ø Black
holes explained (Imaginova)
Ø Our
future space telescope is on display (Sci Friday)
Ø Seeing
our Sun in different lights (Sci Friday)
Ø Journey
into the Sun (KQED)
Ø ‘Music’
of the Sun (KQED)
Ø Quiz
on the Sun (KQED)
Ø UFO
book review, & thoughts (Town Square, MSNBC)
Ø Our
Milky Way galaxy rising over Texas sky (private citizen video)
Ø Amateur
takes photos from space (TV news)
Ø Meteor
over Peru (TV news)
Ø Black
hole devours star (TV news)
Ø Recently
constructed radio telescopes in Chile (TV news)
Ø Galaxies
crash Aug 2011 (MSNBC news)
Ø Solar
flare
(TV news)
Water & Ice on Continents
Ø San
Joaquin River restoration (KQED)
Ø San
Joaquin River restoration scenes (KQED)
Ø Creating
stream meanders in a lab (Sci. Friday)
Ø Bubbling
methane from swamps and ponds (NPR)
Ø Small
debris flow in Pakistan (video by a bystander)
Ø Flash
flood in Nepal (video by a bystander)
Ø Melting
permafrost and wildlife (NPR)
Ø Spillway operation in
March 2011: Shasta
Reservoir, Oroville
Reservoir, Folsom
Reservoir
Chemistry, Particles, etc
Ø Chemical
Bonding: ionic, covalent, metallic (narrated animation)
Ø A physicist
explains why the Hadron Collider will not destroy Earth
Ø Carbon
Goes Wild, a fun skit about atomic bonding
Ø Creating
biofuel from cooking grease (Sci. Friday)
Energy & Power
Ø Tidal
turbines by Verdant Power
Ø Opposing
view to the movie ‘Gasland’ (America’s Natural Gas Alliance)
Ø Large wind
turbines (Sci Friday)
Ø Coal
related
(misc sources)
Ø Shell
development of the snake drill (ad)
Ø Types
of hydroelectric power (homemade video)
Humans & Earth
Ø Global
population by end of 2011 (NatGeo)
Ø Global
population by end of 2011 (MSNBC)
On the Lighter Side, and general science
Ø NASA
making of an Earth composite photo from satellite data (SciFri)
Ø Ice
explained by ‘Ice Carvers’ and scientist (SciFri)
Ø 3
years of stars shown in 3 minutes (a symphony!)
Ø Skull
collection at UC Berkeley (KQED)
Ø Highway
1 Devil’s Slide tunnel project (KQED)
Ø Fire
study in the Marin headlands (KQED)
Ø Ant
research in S.F. (KQED)
Ø Biodiversity
scientist explains ‘Why I do science’ (KQED)
Ø Instructor’s
grandfather teaching archeology at the university in the 1930’s
Ø The
sound of Silence (a tribute to Darwin)
Ø Jet
Man in Switzerland (a news video)
Ø Reconstructing
a very early dinosaur (Sci Friday)
Ø Growing
snowflakes in a bottle (Sci Friday)
Ø Spaceship
One (Mother Ship) maiden flight (NatGeo)
Ø New
dinosaur with menacing toes (Sci Friday)
Ø Human
powered flight, flapping wings (LiveScience)
Ø Animals,
too, enjoy a good beat (Sci Friday)
Ø Science
Is Real, fun children’s video
Ø Put
It to the Test, fun children’s video on the Scientific Method Video
Ø Meet
the Elements fun children’s video
Ø Galileo
fun tribute video, Song by Taio Cruz
