GEOGRAPHY 372 Global Change -- Past, Present, and Future SPRING, 2008

COURSE SCHEDULE

Date	Topic	Readings
M 1/28	Introduction, Overview of Climate System, Climate Change	2-17
W 1/30	Review of Earth's Climate System , IPCC Summary images	18-39, IPCC link, above
M 2/4	Earth's climate system today Ch 2 images	39-46
W 2/6	Biosphere today, Climate Archives Begin Ex. 1,	47-52, 54-64
M 2/11	Climate Proxies, Geomorphic Records Ch3 images	64-71
W 2/13	Dating Climate Records, handout	59-67
M 2/18	President's Day, no classes
W 2/20	Climate Models, GCMs, images (Ex. 1 due 2/20)	71-82
M 2/25	Tectonic scale climate change, CO2	87-93
W 2/27	Weathering and CO2, Gaia hypothesis, Review	93-102
M 3/3	First Midterm
W 3/5	Plate tectonics and climate	103-127
M 3/10	Greenhouse Earth, Images	130-143
W 3/12	Milankovich orbital parameters	175- 189
M 3/17	Orbital scale interactions, Images	255-262
W 3/19	Orbital scale interactions, Images	255-262
Mar 24-31	Spring Break, Chavez Day, no classes
W 4/2	Ice sheets & 100 k yr cycle Images	263-272
M 4/7	Wisconsinan glaciation, Last Glacial Maximum	277-292
W 4/9	Deglaciation, Younger Dryas	302-312
M 4/14	Second Midterm
W 4/16	Holocene record, Future orbital change, AAG (Ex. 2)	313-328
M 4/21	Historical climate changes	355-370
W 4/23	Recent climate changes	370-381
M 4/28	Humans and climate change (Ex. 2 due)	384-395
W 4/30	Late 20th-early 21st century	396-408
M 5/5	Effects on Biosphere	408-421
W 5/7	Climate change in the next 1000 yrs IPCC Summary for Policy Makers reprise	424-440
W 5/9	IPCC Summary for Policy Makers WG 1, 07	link at top of page
M 5/12 W 5/14	IPCC Summary for Policy Makers WG II, 07 Discussion of assigned readings for final take home essay	link at top of page

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