UWEarth & Space Sciences 495 -
NASA Science and Engineering
Undergraduate Research Seminar
Looking for a Spring Quarter course that will satisfy your curiosity about some of the current research on campus? Try Earth & Space Sciences 495. This one-credit, CR/NR seminar course offered by Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium, and coordinated by former NASA research scientist Dr. Tony Irving, is designed to provide undergraduate and graduate students from all fields with an opportunity to learn about space exploration, stellar evolution and planetary geology.
University of Washington, 2006 Spring Quarter
Thursdays, 2:30-3:20 p.m., JHN 102
Earth & Space Sciences 495 (SLN#3584)
Schedule for Spring, 2006
March 30 Michael Solontoi, Astronomy
ESPs and KBOs
April 6 Charles Vaughan, Aerojet Redmond Rocket Center
Voyage to the Last (?) Planet
April 13 Ruth Ludwin, Earth & Space Sciences
PNW Earthquakes & Tsunami, Told in Native Stories
April 20 Jaakko Putkonen, Earth & Space Sciences
Antarctic Dry Valleys: The Most Stable Landscape on Earth?
April 27 Richard Gammon, UW Program on the Environment
Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather
May 4 Jelte Harnmeijer, Earth & Space Sciences
The Search for the EarthÕs Oldest Biomarkers
May 11 Donald Brownlee, Astronomy
Stardust Returns with Comet Stuff
May 18 Eric Steig, Earth & Space Sciences
Ice Cores and Past Climate Change
May 25 Christopher McKay, NASA Ames Research Center
Extreme Terrestrial Environments as Mars Analogs
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