Lectures and Syllabus

Syllabus

02/09    Class 1 - Course Overview and Motivation

02/16    Class 2 - Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming

02/23    Class 3 - Screening - Earth The Operator's Manual

03/01    Class 4 - Carbon Cycle and Ocean Acidification (A)

03/08    Class 5 - Carbon Cycle and Ocean Acidification (B) - Scott Doney

03/15    Class 6 - Cryosphere and Sea Level Rise (A)

03/22    Class 7 - Cryosphere and Sea Level Rise (B)

04/05    Class 8 - Hydrologic Cycle/Extreme Events (A)

04/12    Class 9 - Hydrologic Cycle/Extreme Events (B)

04/19    Class 10 - Guest Susan Solomon

Persistence and irreversibility:  challenges for climate science, policy, and communication

04/26    Class 11 - Hydrologic Cycle/Extreme Events (C)

05/03    Class 12 - Guest Eli Kintisch - Science Maganize and Knight Fellow at MIT

05/10    Class 13 - Abrupt Climate Change and Extreme Events

05/17     Class 14 - Student Projects