Schedule for Global Change, GEOS 478/578
Fall 2010

This page lists topics and readings assigned for each class. We expect you to do the reading before the class. Each topic title and reading is a link to a pdf file (made active as posted). To read or print these, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader software, available here. Clicking on the relevant link will then download a pdf file to your computer. You'll need the username (geos478) and password (given out in class). Homework assignment and due dates are listed here (G for graduate, U for undergraduate); the homeworks themselves are posted on the homework page.

Date Day Who? Topic Readings

Homeworks (Grad, Undergrad)
8/24/10 T JC Introduction: global change observed    
8/26/10 Th JC Radiative balance, GHG, aerosols Assigned - Kump 1999; optional advanced reading Ramanathan 2009 U1 assigned
8/31/10 T JC GHG emissions Assigned - Shine 2007; optional advanced reading Le Quere 2009 and Andreae 2007 G1 assigned
9/2/10 Th JC Stratospheric ozone Schiermeier 2009; Optional: see "20 questions and answers about ozone" from the UNEP 2006 Assessment report for more details U1 due; U2 assigned
9/7/10 T JC Lessons from paleoclimate

IPCC AR4 Ch 6 - Just the exec summary, Box 6.4 and FAQ 6.2.

  
9/9/10 Th JC Climate models and predictions Collins 2007 U2 due; U3 assigned
9/14/10 T SS Drivers: Energy

Holdren (1991)
Pacala & Socolow (2004)  Optional for Energy & Population lectures: Holdren, 2008 ("Science & technology for sustainable well-being")

G1 due
9/16/10 Th   Breakout/presentations presentation schedule U3 due
9/21/10 T SS Drivers: Population & Consumption Cohen (2005) 
Raupach et al. (2007)		 G2 assigned
9/23/10 Th Midterm 1

 

 U4 assigned
9/28/10 T SS

Terrestrial biogeochemistry 1: Carbon cycle

Chapin et al (2002); Ch. 6: Terrestrial production (pp 123-132; 137-149)
Vitousek (1997) (pp 1-6). 		 
9/30/10 Th SS Terrestrial biogeochem 2: Ecosys tem development & N-cycle Chadwick et al. (1999);
rest of Vitousek (1997) 		U4 due; U5 assigned
10/5/10 T SS Terrestrial biogeochem 3: ecosystems and the water cycle

Zhao & Running (2010)
Malhi et al. (2008)

G2 due
10/7/10 Th Breakout/presentations
(Saleska notes for grad breakout) 		  U5 due; U6 assigned;
10/12/10 T SS Drivers: Land use change Foley et al (2005) G3 assigned
10/14/10 Th SS Microbial dynamics in terrestrial and marine systems
(guest: Dr. Virginia Rich) 		Bardgett et al. (2008) 
Moran & Miller (2007)

U6 due; U7 assigned
10/19/10 T JC Ocean biogeochemistry: C cycle Falkowski 2000 - read the ocean parts of this; the full article is a good summary of the C cycle.  
10/21/10 Th JC Ocean biogeochemistry: Acidification

Doney 2005
Pennisi 2009

 U7 due; U8 assigned
10/26/10 T JC Ocean biogeochemistry: Productivity

Behrenfeld et al 2006
Siegel and Franz 2010

 G3 due
10/28/10 Th Breakout/presentations   G4 assigned
11/2/10 T SS Modern anthropogenic carbon -- summary

IPCC (2007) Chap. 7.3: "The Carbon Cycle and the Climate system"

U8 due
11/4/10 Th Midterm 2    
11/9/10 T JC Impacts: Water Overpeck and Udall 2010 U9 assigned
11/11/10 Th NO CLASS

 

  
11/16/10 T JC Impacts: Agriculture/Food

Battisti and Naylor 2009

 U9 due
11/18/10 Th   Breakout/presentations   U10 assigned
11/23/10 T JC Impacts: Health Patz et al. 2005 G4 due
11/25/10 Th NO CLASS    
11/30/10 T JTO Impacts: Sea Level   U10 due
12/2/10 Th SS Impacts: Biodiversity Burney et al 2005; Jackson et al. 2001 (skim each for main points); Thuiller 2007 (Short!).  
12/7/10 T SS Mitigation, Adaptation, and Geoengineering Royal Society, 2009 - "Summary" section (p. ix-xii), and skim overall  
           
Tues 12/14/09, 8-10 AM - FINAL This week is the AGU Fall Meeting, which many of us will be attending. See us if you need to take the final early.