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- This course is designed for anyone interested in understanding the earth system and exploring how to improve the relationship between humans and the environment. It offers a great insight to studying for physical geography and environmental sciences as an undergraduate or fresher at university level.
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Planet Earth presents an overview of several aspects of our home, from a geological perspective. We begin with earthquakes—what they are, what causes them, what effects they have, and what we can do about them.
- Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes - Coursera
Water in Earth’s Climate System: Oceans, Atmosphere, and...
- Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes - Coursera
Discover the Earth’s natural systems and how human activity affects them. On this two-week course from the University of Leeds, you will discover the processes of the hydrosphere, the geosphere, and the biosphere and explore the impact of human activity and climate change on our planet.
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The information you need can be found in the Planet Earth: Understanding and Protecting our Environment Individual Lesson Plan or Planet Earth: Understanding and Protecting our Environment Lesson Scheme.
- Introduction
- The Earth's Climate System
- Minerals, Melting, Magmatism and Metamorphism
- Plate Tectonics
- Palaeobiology
- Sedimentary Processes and Products
- Arran Field Trip
- Britain's Geology: Solving The Jigsaw
- Geology Beyond The Solar System
- Planet Earth: The Bigger Picture...
Essential knowledge in today's changing world—you will emerge at the end of your first year with an appreciation of the science behind climate change, a broad understanding of the history of life, a feel for all the major events that have gone on over the past four-and-a-half billion years, and a basic knowledge of the Earth as a system: a series o...
Climate matters - it is one of the biggest challenges of our time. You will develop a quantitative understanding of Earth’s climate system using first principles of Earth’s energy balance. Although simplified, it illustrates many of the fundamental concepts of how human industrial and agricultural activity has changed the composition of the atmosph...
To interpret the Earth, you need to know what it's made of. Properties of rocks such as mean density, mechanical strength and thermal conductivity depend on the properties of constituent minerals, and these in turn depend on the atomic forces and arrangement on a scale of only nanometres. This course looks at igneous rocks - those crystallised from...
Split over a number of lecture series, this course provides an introduction to the incredibly important field of Geophysics, and one of it's most important achievements of the last century: the theory of Plate Tectonics. While notions of "continental drift" have been around for hundreds of year a full theoretical framework for understanding the mov...
Earth's surface has supported life for at least half of its long history. The fossil record raises many questions. How did life begin? How fast could a dinosaur run, and why are they extinct? How did trilobites see, and why are there llamas in the Andes? How and when did humans evolve? These are just some of the questions to which you'll learn the ...
Water—in rivers and streams—is responsible for moving the vast majority of material over the planet. As such, if we can understand in full how water picks up, moves and deposits this material, we can interpret the majority of the sedimentary rocks, allowing us to reconstruct many landscapes and environments that have existed over the planet's surfa...
A seven day residential field course is run in the Easter vacation to the Isle of Arran on the West coast of Scotland. This intense week of learning brings together all of the topics taught in the course in a field context, ranging from plate tectonics, climate, magmatism and life. The Isle of Arran is a world renowned geological laboratory in the ...
The land which now forms Britain and Ireland has had one of the most tumultuous histories of all areas on the planet. Subduction zones, volcanic arcs, mountain belts, various oceans and continental rifts have all played their part in shaping this fascinating region. At different times Britain was part of a vast desert, a series of islands and reefs...
A transformation in our understanding of planet formation and evolution has occurred since 1995, fuelled by two key observational campaigns: the Kepler mission, which has detected thousands of planets outside our solar system; and the ALMA observatory, which provides unparalleled images of planetary systems being born. One of the most profound resu...
To round off the Earth Sciences course, we look at some of the bigger topical issues that affect us. The problems we regard as hazards and disasters are all experiments that the Earth has carried out before, several times. Learning how to read the evidence helps us to make decisions about how better to prepare to survive them. As global population ...
Explore Earth's dynamic processes, from earthquakes and volcanoes to plate tectonics and resource formation. Gain geological insights into our planet's past, present, and future challenges.
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We're On It - Earth is a rocky planet with a solid and dynamic surface of mountains, canyons, plains and more. Most of our planet is covered in water. Breathe Easy - Earth's atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent other ingredients—the perfect balance to breathe and live.
Water in Earth’s Climate System: Oceans, Atmosphere, and Cryosphere • 10 minutes. Google Earth Tour 4 • 10 minutes. Activity 2: Further Exploration • 10 minutes. The Thinking Persons’ Guide to Climate Change • 10 minutes. The shaping of storm tracks by mountains and ocean dynamics • 10 minutes.
