GSCI 235 - Paleoclimatology

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2

The study of fundamental concepts of global-scale environmental and climatic changes in the context of Earth-surface processes and Earth history. The course focuses on physical, chemical, and biological signatures of past environments preserved in the geologic record; causes and effects of major climate change over various timescales in Earth history; and geologic responses to Pleistocene, Holocene, and geohistorical, and future climate change. Laboratory exercises involve characterizing climate proxies surface processes, data-rich studies of climate-change records, and discussions of evidence for climate change using the most recent IPCC reports.

Offered: Spring Semester