Academic
Catalog August 2009 - August 2010 Undergraduate
and Graduate
College of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural Sciences
School of Earth Science & Sustainable Environments
Geology Annex, room 213
NAU, PO Box 5644, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5644
Director
Abe Springer
You may pursue the following graduate academic plan through the Quaternary Sciences Program:
We designed this academic plan to involve interdisciplinary research into Earth’s present environmental conditions and biota as compared with the Quaternary geologic record.
In geologic time, the Quaternary Period is represented by the Pleistocene, or “Ice Age,” and the Holocene, or Recent, epochs. Dynamic changes in climate, vegetation, fauna, and geologic and pedologic processes are registered in the geologic record of this period, which covers the last 1.6 million years. This period also witnessed the development of the human species and the arrival of early humans in the New World.
The study of Quaternary sciences is becoming more important at the professional level for corporations involved with environmental impact clearance, restoration of mined lands, national park and recreation resource management, baseline studies before development, and climatologic and environmental change and prediction. As a result, we anticipate continued demand for our graduates.
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