Global Change - The Science behind Sustainability Schedule | ||||||
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Week | Date | Day | Topic | Instructor | ||
1 | 28-Aug | Mon | Introduction and Goals, Canvas Setup | Kling/Badgley | ||
30-Aug | Wed | The Anthropocene: A Transformed Earth | Badgley | |||
1-Sep | Fri | The Big Bang and Fundamental Laws | Kling | |||
Lab-Disc | Week 1 | "Challenges We Face" - Discussion and Intro to Term Presentations | ||||
2 | 4-Sep | Mon | Labor Day (No Class; Take-home lab this week) | |||
6-Sep | Wed | The Age and Evolution of the Earth | Kling | |||
8-Sep | Fri | Planetary Energy Balance | Kling | |||
Lab-Read | Week 2 | Take-Home reading (no in-class labs, Labor Day week) | ||||
3 | 11-Sep | Mon | Plate Tectonics | Kling | ||
13-Sep | Wed | Earth's Climate in Deep Time | Kling | |||
15-Sep | Fri | Gaia - Does Life Regulate Earth's Atmosphere? | Kling | |||
Lab | Week 3 | Earth's Energy Balance Model | ||||
4 | 18-Sep | Mon | Greenhouse Gases and Climate | Kling | ||
20-Sep | Wed | Aerosols, Radiative Forcing, and Climate | Kling | |||
22-Sep | Fri | The Fossil Record of Lineages and Ecosystems | Badgley | |||
Lab | Week 4 | Introduction to Stella - Daisy World | ||||
5 | 25-Sep | Mon | Processes of Evolution: Natural Selection | Badgley | ||
27-Sep | Wed | Processes of Evolution: Speciation | Badgley | |||
29-Sep | Fri | Evidence for Evolution in Today's World | Badgley | |||
Lab | Week 5 | Natural Selection - The Case of the Peppered Moth | ||||
6 | 2-Oct | Mon | EXAM #1 ( covers material through 29 Sep ) | Kling/Badgley | ||
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6-Oct | Fri | Critical Thinking in the Age of Fake News | Kling | |||
Lab | Week 6 | Ecological Footprint Activity and Assignment | ||||
7 | 9-Oct | Mon | Ecological Communities: Networks of Interacting Species | Badgley | ||
11-Oct | Wed | Trophic Links: Predation and Parasitism | Badgley | |||
13-Oct | Fri | Competition for Resources | Badgley | |||
Lab-home | Week 7 | Group Project Work | ||||
8 | 16-Oct | Mon | Fall Study Break (No Class), Take-home Lab assignment | |||
18-Oct | Wed | Ecosystems | Kling | |||
20-Oct | Fri | Microbes: Transformers of Matter and Materials | Kling | |||
Lab | Week 8 | Science and the Media -- Fake News Exposed | ||||
9 | 23-Oct | Mon | The Flow of Energy from Primary Production to Higher Trophic Levels | Kling | ||
25-Oct | Wed | Climate Change and the Ice Ages | Kling | |||
27-Oct | Fri | The Blue Planet: El Nino, the Ocean Conveyor Belt, and Climate Change | Kling | |||
Lab | Week 9 | Ice Ages -- Analysis of Vostok Ice Core Data | ||||
10 | 30-Oct | Mon | Climate Models and Predictions for the Future | Kling | ||
1-Nov | Wed | Sustainability and the Global Carbon Cycle | Kling | |||
3-Nov | Fri | Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region | Kling | |||
Lab | Week 10 | The Global Carbon Cycle | ||||
11 | 6-Nov | Mon | EXAM #2 ( covers material through 3 Nov) | Kling/Badgley | ||
8-Nov | Wed | Pollutants, Acid Rain, and Sustainability | Kling | |||
10-Nov | Fri | The Tropical Rainforest | Kling | |||
Lab | Week 11 | Climate and Atmosphere - Long-term Climate Regulation | ||||
12 | 13-Nov | Mon | The Impacts of Climate Change on the Water Cycle | Kling | ||
15-Nov | Wed | Sea Level Rise and Dangerous Climate | Kling | |||
17-Nov | Fri | Sustainability and Co-Production - an Arctic Case Study | Kling | |||
Lab | Week 12 | Group Project Work | ||||
13 | 20-Nov | Mon | Thanksgiving Break - No Class, No Labs this week | |||
22-Nov | Wed | Thanksgiving Break - No Class, No Labs this week | ||||
24-Nov | Fri | Thanksgiving Break - No Class, No Labs this week | ||||
Lab | Week 13 | Thanksgiving break, No Labs Meet | ||||
14 | 27-Nov | Mon | The Value of Nature's Services | Badgley | ||
29-Nov | Wed | Diversity over Space and Time | Badgley | |||
1-Dec | Fri | Human Ecology | Badgley | |||
Lab | Week 14 | Student Presentations of Final Projects - In Lab | ||||
15 | 4-Dec | Mon | The Ecological Footprint of Food and Agriculture | Badgley | ||
6-Dec | Wed | EXAM #3 ( covers all lecture material) | Kling/Badgley | |||
Last updated: | ||||||
18 August 2023 |