Geosystems

The oceans are the earth’s largest heat sink, buffering climate change and participating in the overall redistribution of earth’s heat.  All students study the surface and deep currents involved in this process and the opportunity to examine the fluid mechanics of both ocean and air flow is available for those students with sufficient mathematical backgrounds. 

The “solid” earth provides the opportunity to study not only the mechanisms of the earth’s internal energy, but to examine how scientific thinking adjusts in the circumstances of new evidence and how the changing locations and sizes of the earth’s landmasses affected the earth’s temperature and biodiversity.  Involved in this study, students become acquainted with the computer and statistical techniques of extracting information from and spacially displaying data bases involving tens of thousands of lines.

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