ESCI 38L - POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE LAB AND FIELD STUDIES

    Recent Professors
    A. Harp, R. Reed
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2026
    Class Size
    35 students
    Credits
    0.5
    Spring 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    CSU
    Description
    This course accompanies the Point Reyes National Seashore lecture course and represents laboratory and field activities associated with the national seashore of the Marin Headlands region along the California coast, including a three-day, overnight field trip. This course explores the geology and geologic history of the Point Reyes National Seashore with a focus on faulting and seismicity as well as weather and climatologic qualities as driven by Pacific coastal waters. Coastal oceanographic processes ranging from wave impacts, currents, tidal regimes, and upwelling will be coupled to geologic features as they collectively define coastal habitats and the north reaches of the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary. Field sites within the national seashore demonstrate these relationships, and lab sessions before the trip will focus on applying lecture concepts. Field exercises will be conducted at various stops. (CSU transferable) ECONOMICS (ECON)
    Usually Held
    Fri 2:00pm–6:50pm, Sat Sun 1:00pm–4:50pm, Sat Sun 8:00am–12:00pm, Wed 6:00pm–7:15pm