UCSD ESYS 10 Introduction to Environmental Systems
Winter 2006
February 28
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http://talleylab.ucsd.edu/ltalley/esys10/esys10_talley_2006.htm
Reading: Chapter 8 (Carbon
cycle)
Problems: due Tuesday March
7. Chapter 8 Review questions 1,
5. Critical thinking problem 1a (part a only).
Lecture: Carbon cycle. Click
here for link to powerpoint.
Discussion time: Case Study 3 (part 1): Biodiversity (fisheries)
Topics (with selected links):
Carbon Cycle
Understanding the
Global Carbon Cycle (Woods Hole Research Center)
UCSD/SIO/Calspace online course on climate change
Carbon reservoirs
Organic Carbon Cycle on Land: Seasonal
plant growth
Earth is Becoming a Greener Greenhouse (Boston University)
Organic Carbon Cycle in the Ocean:
Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, and Detritus
Plankton (Natureworks)
Radiolaria
(life history and ecology)
Biological
pump
Long-term Organic Carbon: Sediment
Burial
Carbon Burial in Lakes
(USGS)
Drops in
atmospheric oxygen (Broecker)
Rising carbon dioxide
Inorganic Carbon Cycle: Chemical
Weathering and Air-Sea Carbon exchange
Climate
and the carbon cycle (UK Met Office)
Snowball Earth: What happens when the
system shuts down?
Snowball Earth (Scientific American article)
Consequences of Carbon Emissions
Consequences:
The Carbon Cycle, Climate, and the Long-Term Effects of Fossil Fuel Burning
(Kasting)
Last
modification Feb. 28 2006
email: Lynne Talley