Land and Water Resources

biol/geol/geog 301 - Great Lakes - Summer Session I

Systems-level perspective on landforms, hydrology and ecosystems. Analysis and interpretation of map and field data, remote sensing data derived from satellites and aircraft, and geographic information systems (GIS), including field trips to and analysis of earth surface process and landforms of glaciers, soils, lakeshores, rivers and groundwater. Includes application to policy and land use planning. (4 credit)

Field, Applied, Interdisciplinary

Land and Water Resources is a Category 2 course in Au Sable’s Environmental Policy & GIS Practitioner and Forest & Land Management Practitioner certificates and a Category 3 course in Ecological Restoration Practitioner, Freshwater Fisheries Practitioner, and Wetland Assessment Practitioner certificates. For more information, visit our certificate page.

Professor: TBD

Field Experiences

Alba Quarry

East Jordan, Charlevoix, and Ellsworth

Tar Lake EPA Superfund site

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Kirtland's Warbler protected area

Traverse City city planning office

Hartwick Pines State Forest