Structural geology is the study of the deformation within Earth's lithosphere, especially stress, rheology, strain, and the origin and significance of structural features. In this course you will develop of 3-dimensional thinking through drafting and drawing of structures, construction of geologic maps and cross-sections, scientific writing, descriptions, and stereographic and orthographic representation of structures.

This course provides an introduction to modern geophysics. Topics include: global plate tectonics, plate motion, triple junctions, geomagnetism, earthquakes and faulting, reflection and refraction seismology, gravity and isostasy, heat flow and mantle dynamics, Earth’s deep interior. Studying Earth using geophysical methods.

This course provides overview of the theories, findings, and tools of Active Tectonics. The course is designed for graduate and senior undergraduate students who have basic mathematic background and have taken Structural Geology or relevant courses.

In this course we discuss basic principles underlying different remote sensing techniques, and how they are applied to geology related applications. This class will introduce satellite data including from Landsat, Envisat, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Icesat, SRTM, SMAP, and GRACE. We will also introduce geographic information systems (GIS) in this class and software such as QGIS, Google Earth, and Google Earth Engine to present and analyze different remote sensing dataset.