Associate Professor Richard de Dear - Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
I am currently involved in lecturing and curriculum development for these units:
GEOS117 Biophysical Environments is a broad-ranging introduction to physical geography, with a particular focus on the biophysical environment of Sydney.
I am responsible for the biophysical atmosphere module which looks at weather, climate and air quality processes in the Sydney region, from microclimates just millimeters above the ground to broadscale synoptic and climate controls.
GEOS216 Atmospheric Environment is a broad introduction to the atmospheric sciences- climatology and meteorology. There are two hours of lectures and three hours of lab-work each week. GEOS216 forms a prerequisite to all 3rd year atmospheric science units (GEOS301, GEOS325, GEOS313).
GEOS325 Applied Climatology is co-taught with Dr Beggs. My part of GEOS325 consists of two hours of lectures and a four hour laboratory practical each week. Additionally there is a compulsory field experiment in which boundary layer meteorological measurements are applied to air pollution problems in Western Sydney. The curriculum of my GEOS325 module covers:
- acquisition and analysis of data from in situ instrumentation (temperature, psychrometrics, radiometrics, wind, dataloggers and eddy flux correlation methods and automatic weather stations); and
- diverse applications including aviation, marine transport, agriculture, architecture/engineering, renewable energy and urban air quality measurement and management.
Graduate Student Research Supervision
In the general area of applied meteorology/climatology, specifically in connection with architecture, neural networks, urban air quality and air pollution, indoor climates, thermal stress/comfort and biometeorology.