Course overview
Students will study the fundamental geological and biological processes comprising the earth system, focusing on interactions and evolution through geological time, with implications for the ongoing and human-induced global change and operation of the earth system.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate practical skills to reconstruct paleo-environment from sedimentary archives
- Identify past environmental and climate change events from geological/sedimentary records
- Explain processes shaping the long-term evolution of the Earth System, climate and CO2
- Demonstrate practical skills to model global bio-geochemical cycles, including C cycle
- Explain feedbacks within the Earth System, relevant to CO2 and marine carbonate system
- Understand future environmental challenges and tipping points in the Earth System