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Geobiology Courses

Required (all tracks)

Course Number	Instructor	Title
GS 205/ESS 205	Many	Fundamentals of Geobiology
GS 208/ESS 208	Many	Topics in Geobiology

Paleontology Track

Breadth: One of the following
Course Number	Instructor	Title
GS 123/223	Payne	Evolution of Marine Ecosystems
GS 128/228	Boyce	Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems

Depth: Two of the following (or both breath courses and one of the following)
Course Number	Instructor	Title
GS 135/235	Sperling	Sedimentary geochemistry and analysis
BIOHOPK 255H	Lowe	Developmental Biology and Evolution
GS 206	Boyce	Topics in Organismal Paleobiology
GS 254	Payne	Carbonate Sedimentology

Biogeochemistry Track

Breadth: one of the following
Course Number	Instructor	Title
ESS 252	Casciotti	Marine Chemistry
ESS 232	Chamberlain	Evolution of Earth Systems
GS 263	Maher	Introduction to Isotope Geochemistry

Depth: two of the following (extra breadth courses in this track can also count toward the depth requirement)
Course Number	Instructor	Title
ESS 256	Fendorf	Soil and Water Chemistry
ESS 249	Casciotti	Marine Stable Isotopes
GS171	Bird	Geochemical Thermodynamics
GS 270	Brown	Environmental Geochemistry
GS225/ESS 221	Maher/Gorelick	Contaminant Hydrogeology and Reactive Transport
BIO/ESS 216	Vitousek	Terrestrial Biogeochemistry

Geomicrobiology Track

Breadth: one of the following
Course Number	Instructor	Title
ESS 258	Francis	Geomicrobiology
ESS 255	Welander	Microbial Physiology

Depth: two of the following (or both breath courses and one of the following)
Course Number	Instructor	Title
ESS 259	Francis	Environmental Microbial Genomics
ESS 250	Francis	Hopkins Microbiology Course
ESS 261	Welander	Molecular Microbial Biosignatures
EE 274A	Spormann	Environmental Microbiology I
EE 274B	Spormann	Microbial Bioenergy Systems
ESS 251	Arrigo	Biological Oceanography
ESS 210	Dekas	Techniques in Environmental Microbiology

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