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Week |
Date |
Day |
Topic |
Instructor |
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1 |
3-Sep |
Wed |
Introduction and Goals |
All |
|
|
5-Sep |
Fri |
Roadmap: The Scientific Method; Lecture Tools setup |
van der Pluijm, Kling |
|
NO Lab |
3-5 Sep |
|
NO LAB |
|
|
2 |
8-Sep |
Mon |
The Big Bang and
Fundamental Laws |
Poulsen |
|
|
10-Sep |
Wed |
Evolution of
Galaxies and Stars |
Poulsen |
|
|
12-Sep |
Fri |
Formation
of the Solar System |
Poulsen |
|
Lab 1- Disc |
8-12 Sep |
|
"Challenges We Face" - Discussion and Intro to Term
Presentations |
|
|
3 |
15-Sep |
Mon |
Clocks in Rocks:
Isotopes and the Age of Earth |
Poulsen |
|
|
17-Sep |
Wed |
Our Shifting
Earth - Plate Tectonics |
Poulsen |
|
|
19-Sep |
Fri |
The Cycle of
Rocks and Formation of Soils |
Poulsen |
|
Lab 2 |
15-19 Sep |
|
Introduction to Stella - Daisy World |
|
|
4 |
22-Sep |
Mon |
Evolution of the
Ocean and Atmosphere, and Formation of Continents |
Poulsen |
|
|
24-Sep |
Wed |
Climate Regulation |
Poulsen |
|
|
26-Sep |
Fri |
Greenhouse Gases
and the Greenhouse Effect |
Poulsen |
|
Lab 3 |
22-26 Sep |
|
Earth's Energy Balance Model |
|
|
5 |
29-Sep |
Mon |
Composition and Circulation of the Atmosphere |
Poulsen |
|
|
1-Oct |
Wed |
Weather and Climate |
Poulsen |
|
|
3-Oct |
Fri |
Water and Ice -- the Hydrosphere and Cryosphere
** Exam Review 5:15-6:15 in 1040 DANA |
Poulsen |
|
Lab 4 |
29Sep-3Oct |
|
Long Term Climate Regulation |
|
|
6 |
6-Oct |
Mon |
MIDTERM EXAM #1 (material through 3 Oct) |
|
|
|
8-Oct |
Wed |
Emergence of
Complex Life; The Fossil Record and Punctuated Equilibrium |
Allan |
|
|
10-Oct |
Fri |
The Process of
Speciation |
Allan |
|
Lab 5 |
6-10 Oct |
|
The Case of the Peppered Moth |
|
|
7 |
13-Oct |
Mon |
Evolution and
Natural Selection |
Allan |
|
|
15-Oct |
Wed |
Ecological
Communities: Networks of Interacting Species |
Allan |
|
|
17-Oct |
Fri |
Competition and
Resource Scarcity |
Allan |
|
Lab 6 |
13-17 Oct |
|
Population Dynamics: Predator-Prey Interactions |
|
|
8 |
20-Oct |
Mon |
Fall Study Break (No Class) |
|
|
|
22-Oct |
Wed |
Trophic Links:
Predation and Parasitism |
Allan |
|
|
24-Oct |
Fri |
The Value of Nature's Services |
Allan |
|
Lab 7-take home |
20-24 Oct |
|
Fall Break - No Labs meet -
Science and the media |
|
|
9 |
27-Oct |
Mon |
A Transformed Earth |
Allan |
|
|
29-Oct |
Wed |
Ecosystems |
Kling |
|
|
31-Oct |
Fri |
Microbes:
Transformers of Matter and Materials |
Kling |
|
Lab 8 |
27-31 Oct |
|
Ecological Footprints |
|
|
10 |
3-Nov |
Mon |
The Flow of
Energy – Primary Production and Higher Trophic Levels |
Kling |
|
|
5-Nov |
Wed |
The Tropical Rain
Forest |
Kling |
|
|
7-Nov |
Fri |
Climate Change
and the Ice Ages |
Kling |
|
Lab 9- Disc |
3-7 Nov |
|
Climate Change Discussion and Global Warming Activity (meet in
classroom) |
|
|
11 |
10-Nov |
Mon |
MIDTERM EXAM #2 (material through 5 Nov) |
|
|
|
12-Nov |
Wed |
The Blue Planet: El Nino, the Ocean Conveyor Belt, and Climate
Change |
Kling |
|
|
14-Nov |
Fri |
Climate Models and Predictions for the Future |
Kling |
|
Lab 10 |
10-14 Nov |
|
Analysis of Vostok Ice Core Data |
|
|
12 |
17-Nov |
Mon |
The Global Carbon
Cycle - A Driver of Climate Change |
Kling |
|
|
19-Nov |
Wed |
The Global
Nitrogen Cycle – the Case of Acid Rain |
Kling |
|
|
21-Nov |
Fri |
Climate Change in
the Great Lakes Region
*click here for Great Lakes Self Test |
Kling |
|
Lab 11 |
17-21 Nov |
|
The Global Carbon Cycle |
|
|
13 |
24-Nov |
Mon |
Geohazards: Earthquakes and Volcanoes |
van der Pluijm |
|
|
26-Nov |
Wed |
For Wednesday's class we will not be
meeting.
Read the following articles
in place of lecture and have a wonderful break!
Averting Unnatural Disasters Chapter 7, 2001 p. 123-142.
This article examines the ecological and societal vulnerability
of different regions of the world and the politics and
psychology of disaster preparedness and response. Moreover, the
article investigates how resilient different societies are to
natural disasters once they have occurred.
Turning Disasters into Peacemaking Opportunities Chapter
7 (2006 State of the World), p. 115-133. This article examines
the impact of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, the connection
between disasters and conflict, as well as humanitarian and
environmental peacemaking.
|
|
|
|
28-Nov |
Fri |
Thanksgiving Break (No Classes from 27-28 Nov) |
|
|
Lab 12-take home |
24-28 Nov |
|
Thanksgiving break - No Labs meet - Virtual Earthquakes
(take-home) |
|
|
14 |
1-Dec |
Mon |
Using Science to
Solve Problems: The Case of the Killer Lakes of Cameroon |
Kling |
|
|
3-Dec |
Wed |
Geohazards: Tsunamis
**additional Geohazard
Self Test |
van der Pluijm |
|
|
5-Dec |
Fri |
Geohazards: Weather |
van der Pluijm |
|
Lab 13 |
1-5 Dec |
|
Student Presentations - rooms TBA |
|
|
15 |
8-Dec |
Mon |
Final Class Summary, Course Evaluations |
All |
|
|
15-Dec |
Mon |
Review for Final Exam (Exam 3) |
|
|
|
16-Dec |
Tues |
FINAL EXAM; 1:30-3:30 pm |
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