UCSD  ESYS 10 Introduction to Environmental Systems

Winter 2006

March 2

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, part 2 (inorganic cycles).  Click here for link to powerpoint.

Discussion time: Case Study 3 (part 2): 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

Earth on Fire


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 March 2 2006

email: Lynne Talley