Course Setup:

• How to contact your instructor
• College Catalogue Course Description
• Syllabus (pdf)
• Course Feedback

Course Work:

• Readings and Assignments
• Required readings.
  • Scientific American Alley article on "Abrupt Climate Change" (2004).
  • Physics Today article on "The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change" (2003)
  • American Scientist article on "Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization" (2005)
• Final Project
  • Project Options
  • Group Project teams & topics
  • Project Library Activity Nov. 1-3
  • Overall Project Timeline
  • Citing the Literature on your Poster
  • Group Consultation with Trish (Nov. 8 or 9)
  • Adobe Ilustrator Assignment (for Nov. 10)
  • Poster Format & Printing Instructions

Other Resources:

• General info on Abrupt Climate Change
  • Woods Hole site (lots here!)
  • NOAA, Paleoclimatology site
  • NOAA Paleo Perspective on Abrupt Climate Change
• Why did the Younger Dryas occur?
  • NOAA Abrupt Climate Change site
• Could Global warming lead to a tipping point and abrupt climate change?
  • Global warming 'past the point of no return'?, Sept. 16, 2005 (thanks Emily)
  • Warming hits 'tipping point' , Aug. 11, 2005
• Hurricanes & Climate Change
  • Has climate change made hurricanes fiercer, or are such claims hot air?, Sept. 17, 2005
• What's up in the Arctic?
  • Arctic ice, shrinking with consequences, Sept. 24, 2005
• David Mermin on the EPR experiment & "spooky actions at a distance"

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