Readings and Articles
For this section, please:
- Read the U.S. Department of Labor's Descriptions of Environmental Scientists and Specialists and Geoscientists and Hydrologists. Go through these readings and pay close attention to the “Nature of the Job” and “Job Outlook” sections of each. Each reading is about two pages long.
- Review Chapter 1.
- Review the ideas on systems and input-output analyses (covered in the Introduction and Principles Module).
- Pay close attention to the sections on Earth as a System and the concept of Uniformitarianism (Section 1.2, Concept Three, p 23) and Earth Systems and Environmental Unity (Section 1.2, Concept Three, pp 23-24).
- Read Chapter 13, Section 13.1: Water: A Brief Global Perspective (pp 432-433).
- Read Chapter 3 Section 3.3: Rock Cycle (pp 86 - 88).
- Read Chapter 3 Section 3.4: Three Rock Laws (p 88).
Additional resources you may check out:
(These are optional resources and are not required content for exams, quizzes, or homework.)
- Stories from the Underground. Geotimes magazine published information on Earth science in an easy to read format, in language you’d find in a regular news magazine. In this report. The Geotimes staff takes a look at three Earth scientists whose job involves working underground.
- Off the Beaten Career Path. Geotimes magazine takes a look at white collar, blue collar, and pretty off the wall jobs Earth scientists are doing.
- The Illinois Geological Survey and Indiana Geological Survey conduct research required to support state infrastructure, business development, resource development, and environmental protection.
In case you are bored this weekend:
Read Evidence from the Earth: Forensic Geology and Criminal Investigation by Ray Murray. Could some dirt stuck in a tire solve a murder? Is there a dead body buried under your driveway? Ray Murray combines his expertise as a forensic geologist with many lurid tales of forensic geology into a book for the general public. - Read The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester. Simon Winchester tells the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology. It starts when in 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the Earth on its head.