YSB 601E - Advan.Top.in Ear.Sys.Sci.

Course Objectives

The “Advanced Topics in Earth System Science” course will teach paleooceanography and biosphere as follows:
1. To teach students the the basic knowledge in paleooceanography.
2. To teach the interaction between biosphere and atmosphere.
3. To learn the earth system behaviour, and the planet's oceans, lands, and atmosphere as an integrated system, with an emphasis on changes occurring during the current period of overwhelming human influence, the Anthropocene.

Course Description

Earth system science course will include oceans, lands and atmosphere as an integrated systems. The main topics of the course are to study problems involving processes occurring at the Earth's surface, including climate and global environmental change, marine and freshwater ecosystems, microclimates and vegetation, introduction to palynology, plants and the carbon cycles, from climate to vegetation, and the structure of the Earth’s lithosphere and how these systems interact with each other.