readings


 * COURSE READING LIST**
 * Recommended reference materials for background reading **

1. Schlesinger, WH. 1997. Biogeochemistry: an analysis of global change. Academic Press. 2. Keller, EA. 2000. Environmental Geology. Prentice Hall. 3. Steffen et al. 2004. Global Change and the Earth System. A planet under pressure. Springer. 4. Kump et al. 2010. The Earth System. Pearson.


 * Websites of interest (please recommend more to add!) **

1. IPCC: http://www.ipcc.ch/ 2. IPCC Technical Report, The Physical Science Basis: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/contents.html 3. Real Climate (climate science from climate scientists!): http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/05/start-here/ 4. Dot Earth: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ 5. Nature Climate Blog: http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/

**6 Sept (course intro)** REQUIRED: Hansen 2004 Seeger 2006; Trenberth et al. 2010
 * 8 Sept (physics of climate change )**

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND: IPCC physical science summary: Trenberth and Stepaniak 2004

**13 Sept (chemistry of GHGs and general circulation patterns)** REQUIRED: Broecker 1997; Seeger, 2006, Collins et al. 2010 Lozier et al. 2010

**15 Sept (fundamentals of chemistry and carbon)**REQUIRED: Jickells et al. 2005; Falkowski et al. 2000 ; Falkowski et al. 1997HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND: Stoughton (Carbon cycle); Canfield et al. 2010

**20 Sept (climate on geological time scales)** REQUIRED: Petit et al 1999, Steffensen et al. 2008 , Zachos et al. 2001

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND: **22 Sept (modern climate forcings #1)** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> REQUIRED: Hansen and Sato, 2004; Joos and Spahni 2008 ; LeQuere et al. 2009

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND: Hansen and Sato 2001; Hansen et al. 2007**27 Sept (modern climate forcings #2)** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> REQUIRED: Solomon et al. 2009, buesseler et al. 2004, herzog et al. 2006

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**29 Sept (Sea Level Rise and Warming)** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> REQUIRED: Domingues et al 2008 ; Hansen et al. 2006 ;Nicholls and Cazenave 2010

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND: <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Church et al 2004

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**4 Oct (Glacial Retreat)** <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">Serreze et al. 2007; Alley et al. 2005; Joughin et al. 2011

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**6 Oct (Freshwater delivery)**Schmidhuber and Tubiello 2007 ; Vorosmarty et al 2010 <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**11 Oct (extreme events)** Reusch et al. 2005; Thibault and Brown 2008; Webster et al. 2005 (we will concentrate primarily on the first two) <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**13 Oct (Ozone):** Velders et al. 2007; Ravishankara et al. 2009; Solomon et al. 2004

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**18 October (Ocean Chemistry #1):** We will watch a lecture on ocean chemistry and discuss Doney (2010): <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">**20 October (Ocean Chemistry #2):** Reibesell et al. 2007 ; Eppley and Peterson 1979

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">**25 October (acidification #1, 'not corals')** Hutchins et al. 2007 **Iglesias Rodriguez et al. **

**27 October (acidification #2, corals):** Anthony et al. ; Pelejero et al., pandolfi et al. **1 November (coral biomes):** Weir Brush 2004, ; Bruno et al. 2007

===**3 November (Estuaries):** Diaz and Rosenberg 2008 ; Paerl et al. 2001; Sobczak et al. 2002 ===
 * 8 November (Diversity: guest lecturer, Cascade Sorte):** Cardinale et al. 2006 [[file:Cardinale&&2006_Nature_EffectsBiodivLoss.pdf]]; Sala et al. 2000[[file:Salaetal2000_Science_GlobDivThreats.pdf]]; Halpern et al. 2008[[file:Halpern&&2008_Science_MarineHumanImpacts.pdf]]


 * 10 November (temperate marine systems):** Pauley et al. 1998 [[file:PaulyD 1998 Fishing Down Marine Food Webs.pdf]]; Costello et al. 2008[[file:CostelloC 2008 Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse.pdf]]; Simpson et al. 2011[[file:SimpsonSD 2011 Continental Shelf-Wide Response of a Fish Assemblage to Rapid Warming of the Sea.pdf]]


 * 15 November (Wetlands):** Brix et al. 2001 [[file:Brix.pdf]]; Welzin et al. 2003 [[file:Weltzin.pdf]]


 * 17 November (polar systems):** Peck et al. 2010 [[file:aBIomePresentation.peck2010.pdf]]; Podrabsky and Somero 2006[[file:BIomePresentation.podrabsy2006.pdf]]; Quinlan et al. 2005[[file:BiomePresentation.quinlan.2005.pdf]]


 * 22 November (arid systems):** Smith et al. 2000 [[file:Smith_2000_CO2_effect_on_productivity_in_arid_ecosystem.pdf]]**;** Sivakumar et al. 2005 [[file:Sivakumar_2005_Interactions_between_climate_and_desertification.pdf]]**,** Ehleringer 1991[[file:Ehleringer_1991_differential_water_utilization.pdf]]
 * 29 November (grasslands):** Suttle et al. 2007 [[file:Suttle et al 2007.pdf]]**;** Morgan et al. 2011[[file:Morgan et al 2011.pdf]]**;** Zalveta et al. 2003[[file:Zavleta et al 2003.pdf]]


 * 1 December (soils):** Lal 2004[[file:Lal 2004.pdf]]**;** van geffen et al. 2011 [[file:ven Geffen et al. 2011.pdf]]**;** Schlenker and Roberts 2009[[file:schlenker and Roberts 2009.pdf]]

6 December (temperate forests): Nadelhoffer et al. 1999; Korner et al. 2005 ; Yu et al. 2010

8 December (temperate forests): Bradshaw et al. 2009 Pounds et al., Gullison et al.

LAST CLASS!!!!:

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">MISCELLANEOUS READINGS OF POSSIBLE INTEREST:on isoprenes:on anoxygenic photosynthesis (initial paper by Zehr, Moisander paper was on global distribution):on the exploding African lakes: (John was right! the lake that killed people was Lake Nyos. Lake Kivu was the high methane lake, but they have been extracting the methane so it won't explode: <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">On the tragedy of the commons: