David West

I would say that the great parts of this course are Dave West and the fieldwork/labs. Dave is very knowledgable, easy to approach, and incredibly helpful. We have a few papers throughout the semester but they are short and about things we go over thoroughly in class. This class is very slow-paced. Each lecture covers lots of review from the previous lecture before moving on to anything new which slows it down considerably.

I would say that the great parts of this course are Dave West and the fieldwork/labs. Dave is very knowledgable, easy to approach, and incredibly helpful. We have a few papers throughout the semester but they are short and about things we go over thoroughly in class. This class is very slow-paced. Each lecture covers lots of review f …Read more

This class was very easy. I enjoyed taking this class with Dave because it was very chill and did not have lots of work. But the only thing that I didn’t like was that the labs were mostly off campus and takes lots of time.

I highly recommend this course, ECSC 105 is a straightforward and enlightening overview of basic ideas in geology and environmental science. Extremely lecture-heavy, with some fun field trips and outdoor labs sprinkled in there. Definitely makes you see the world a little differently with regard to how resources extracted from the earth affect our day-to-day. Dave is a super nice guy and a very engaging lecturer.

I highly recommend this course, ECSC 105 is a straightforward and enlightening overview of basic ideas in geology and environmental science. Extremely lecture-heavy, with some fun field trips and outdoor labs sprinkled in there. Definitely makes you see the world a little differently with regard to how resources extracted from the ea …Read more