G4631 Course schedule
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09/08 09/10 |
W F |
Course introduction; Global Change How to conduct a library search |
TES Chapter 1 |
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09/13 09/15 09/17 |
M W F |
Daisyworld Daisyworld, Laboratory -
Daisyworld |
TES Chapter 2 TES Chapter 2 |
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09/20 09/22 09/24 |
M W F |
Global Energy Balance Global Energy balance Laboratory –
Global energy balance |
TES Chapter 3 TES Chapter 3 |
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09/27 09/29 10/01 |
M W F |
The Atmospheric Circulation System The Circulation of Oceans Laboratory –
WorldWatcher |
TES Chapter 4 TES Chapter 5 |
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10/04 10/06 10/08 |
M W F |
Thermohaline circulation and climate Atmosphere-Ocean System How to read a
scientific paper |
TES Chapter 5 TES Chapter 6 |
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10/11 10/13 10/15 |
M W F |
The Carbon Cycle The Carbon Cycle, continued Laboratory – Global carbon cycle |
TES Chapter 8 TES Chapter 8 |
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10/18 10/20 10/22 |
M W F |
Biota: Biosphere. Ecosystems & Biodiversity – midterm due Formation of Atmosphere and Oceans & the Origin of
Life How to read a scientific paper |
TES Chapter 9 TES Chapter 10, p193- |
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10/25 10/27 10/29 |
M W F |
The Rise of Oxygen Evolution of Land Plants and Devonian Crisis How
to write a scientific paper |
TES Chapter 11 Algeo et al (1995) |
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11/01 11/03 11/05 |
M W F |
Snowball Earth – Term Paper outline due Closing of the How to write a scientific paper |
TES Chapter 12, p230-244 Haug & Tiedemann (1998); Keigwin (1982); Burton et al. (1997) |
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11/08 11/10 11/12 |
M W F |
Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau & the Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau & the Laboratory - TBA |
Ruddiman & Kutzbach (1991), Raymo and Ruddiman Jacobson et al. (2002); Dalai et al. (2002) |
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11/15 11/17 11/19 |
M W F |
Warm Mesozoic Ice in Mesozoic? Extinctions and bolide impacts |
TES Chapter 12, p244-249 Matthews and Poore, 1980; Miller et al., 1999; Huber et al., 2002 TES Chapter 13 |
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11/22 11/24 |
M W |
Extinctions and volcanic eruptions – Term Paper draft due Evolution of grasses and grazing animals |
Courtillot (1990); Coffin & Eldholm (1993) McFadden and Cerling
(1994), Janis et al. (2000), Fox and Koch (2004) |
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11/29 12/01 12/03 |
M W F |
Pleistocene Glaciations Glacial Climate Feedbacks Laboratory – Response to astronomical forcing |
TES Chapter 14, p271-279 TES Chapter 14, p279-287 |
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12/06 12/08 12/10 |
M W F |
LGM through the Holocene Present-Day Climate Variability Discussion – temperature vs. ice volume effect in deep-sea carbonate
record – Term Paper due |
TES Chapter 15, p289-306 & TBA TES Chapter 15,p306-315 & TBA Emiliani paper; Shackleton paper; Schrag et al. (1996); Lea et al. (2002) |
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12/13 12/15 |
M W |
Poster presentation Poster presentation |
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