GEOG 4351
Global Climate Change
Fall 2024
Topics
- Analysis
- Writing style
- Project Support
- accessing reputable peer-reviewed literature. Contact your librarian liaison, Nicole Stradiotto
- polishing your work
- Suggested Topics
- Listed below are some suggested starting points for individual research. This list is not
- exhaustive
- be focussed on a particular region, sector, or ecosystem, but could also have a global scope
- duplication with other students, and to ensure that your topic is relevant and goes beyond the basic
- course material
- Climatology
- Paleoclimatology
- Global observation networks
- Emissions projections
- Climate models
- Impacts
- Agricultural impacts
- Forest impacts
- Sea level rise
- Water resource impacts
- Biodiversity
- Biological surprise
- Polar impacts
- Disease
Readings
- Dessler, Andrew (2022). Introduction to Modern Climate Change, 3rd ed. UK: Cambridge University Press.
Winter 2023
Topics
- Ice Ages (I)– The terrestrial evidence
- Ice Ages (II) – The evidence in the sea and ice
- Ice Ages (III) Causes of Quaternary glaciations
- The Ice Age Aftermath - The Meltdown – a story about lakes and forests
- Rapid Climate Change – The Younger Dryas
- Slow climate change – The Holocene Climatic Optimum
- Methods in climate change research
- Time permitting
- Dating techniques
- Proxy methods of tracking climate change
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2024
- Course source ↗
- syllabus ↗Winter 2023
- Course source ↗