Sea Level Change and the Human Experience

Harvard FAS

This year's course will focus on sea level changes over time scales that have relevance to human experiences in both the ancient and modern world. The course begins with a brief overview of the processes responsible for sea level changes on time scales of hundreds of millions of years, including the concepts of eustasy and dynamic topography. The first major section of the course deals with sea level changes on the ice age (Plio-Pleistocene) Earth, including geological and geodetic…