Water Geographies focuses on current issues related to water, and individual and group action that can make a difference to improve water sustainability. It is a service learning class. We will read several journalistic books as well as news articles to explore current issues. We will think about the ways that people cause and face conflict over water, and how they strive to improve sustainability. Focus issues will include: freshwater sustainability and development; bottled water; dams, energy & rivers; marine fisheries; and the Connecticut River.

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This course is an introduction to the political ecology of climate change, response, and justice. It provides an opportunity to engage in critical reading and discussion about the great moral, political, economic, and environmental challenge of our time. We will explore climate crisis narratives; mitigation, adaptation, and climate justice issues; policy and social/economic reform debates; and climate activism. Reading will range from IPCC reports to work by Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, and Indigenous activists.

Focus on a range of concepts and techniques key to understanding how remote sensing data are acquired, displayed, restored, enhanced, and analyzed. Hands-on experience using the image processing software ITT ENVI.

This course introduces the principles of digital image analysis for interpreting remotely sensed data for environmental, resource and urban studies. Emphasis will be given to the processing and information extraction from optical and thermal imagery.

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