Global Change GEOS 478

Presentation Schedule

PLEASE NOTE: the suggested readings are there in case you need a place to start. You are not required to use these, as long as you use SOME peer-reviewed source of information (2 papers) and fulfill the requirement of identifying and addressing a scientific question related to your topic.

IMPORTANT - read the assignment description page before you start!

DATE	NAMES	TOPIC	SUGGESTED READING
September 16: Energy and Climate
	Ken LeRoy Loren Hill	Asian monsoon in a warmer world - predictions, impacts	Goswami 2006; Ueda 2006; also see IPCC 2007 Ch 11
	Percival Gou Kimberly Makar	Global warming and climate extremes: hurricanes	This page has a lot of current info, but be sure to cite individual papers in your presentation! Also Curry 2006.
	Aaron Seastrand Thomas Benson	Nuclear energy as a "green" option	MIT report; Grimes 2010; Johnson 2010
	Matt Wander Rhys Smith Audra Antczak	Peak oil - what is it, has it come and gone, and why should we care?	Worldwatch issue on Peak Oil; Kerr 2008
October 7: Biogeochemistry and Terrestrial Systems
	Hannah Foster Breanna Quesada	Deforestation in China/tropical Africa	Boahene (1998): causes, consequences of African deforestation Geist et al (2002) examine causes of tropical deforestation worldwide Rudel (2007) changing agents of deforestation
	Robert Newman Tara Bonestroo Benjamin Vernon	Global change impact on plant productivity	Zhao and Running (2010) (effects of drought on productivity) Reich et al. (2006) (effects of rising CO2 in context of nitrogen availability)
	Molly Hoak Kali Lucey	Are primary tropical forests a net carbon source or sink of CO2 to the atmosphere?	Gloor et al (2009) Amazon uptake evidence from forest plots Gatti et al. (2010) uptake as indicated by atmospheric observations Houghton et al (2009) (good critical overview across methods, including plots, towers, atmosphere, and modeling)
	Billy Linker Jessica Thompson	How do invasive species (Buffelgrass) influence particular ecosystems? (Southern Arizona/N. Mexico)	Williams et al. (2000); consequences of grass invasions Franklin et al. (2006) Buffelgrass invasion in Sonora Brooks (2004) Invasives effect fire regimes (see also for local background on buffelgrass see: www.buffelgrass.org)
October 28: Biogeochemistry and Marine Systems
	Daniel Tovar Robert Jones	Coastal ocean "dead zones"	Diaz 2010 on global warming and dead zone expansion; Chan 2008 on anoxian in teh Cal. Current ecosystem; Vaquer 2008 on impacts of low O2 for marine life; Rabalais 2002 for a review on the Gulf of Mexico dead zone.
	Rachel Chiang Beaney Mendez	Coral reef health and global change	All of these are brief: Normile 2009; De'Ath 2009; Hoegh-Guldberg 2008; Carpenter 2008; Stone 2007
	Alex Halpern Robert Carillo Jazelle Mondeau	Impacts of climate change on particular marine populations or regions PICK A TOPIC WITHIN THIS PLEASE!!	Fotr Hawaii's marine ecosystem: Nice link here; I am having trouble finding additinal refs without knowing exactly where your focus lies; let's talk!
	Leanndra Romero Natashia Henderson	Impact of overfishing on the ocean food web: Gulf of California	Saenz-Arroyo 2005 for a summary of the shifting baselines issue;
November 18: Global change impacts
	Brandon Cervell Dylan Cobean	Impacts of global change on particular ecosystems (sky island ecosystems or high-altitude meadows) PLEASE CHOOSE
	Jessica Cline Stephanie Hunn	Socioeconomic impact of global change on water tables of the southwest
	Jacob Meskin Joe Allison	CO2 emissions and wildland fires
	Christopher Lamm Elmer Guy	Current climate policy
TBA
	Jake Kiviko Joseph Fumo	Past changes in the ocean's overturning circulation