Schedule- Spring 2009

Week	Date	Topic	Due	Reading
1	Jan. 7	Introduction
	Jan. 9	Climate

2	Jan. 12	Climate System		pp. 1-3, 18-23, skim 23-31
	Jan. 14	Earth’s Energy Balance	Systems	Ch. 3
	Jan. 16	Earth’s Energy Balance	GW Opinion

3	Jan. 19	MLK Day- no class
	Jan. 21	Forcing	Black Body Problem	pp. 3-15
	Jan. 23	Atmospheric Circ		Ch. 4

4	Jan. 26	Atmospheric Circ	Atm Circ Problem
	Jan. 28	Atmospheric Circ and presentation topics
	Jan. 30	EXAM 1

5	Feb. 2	Surface Circ Lab	Pre lab	Ch. 5
	Feb. 4	Surface Ocean Circ	Presentation topic
	Feb. 6	Surface Ocean Circ	Surface lab

6	Feb. 9	Surface/Deep Circ	Follow up
	Feb. 11	Deep Ocean Circ		pp. 294-296
	Feb. 13	Deep Ocean Circ

7	Feb. 16	Deep Ocean Circ Lab
	Feb. 18	ENSO		pp.306-315
	Feb. 20	Oceanic Productivity	Deep lab	pp. 153-158

8	Feb. 23	Prod/ Carbon Cycle
	Feb. 25	EXAM 2
	Feb. 27	Global Carbon Cycle	Presentation references	Ch. 8

9	Mar. 2	Global Carbon Cycle	CO2 uptake	pp. 126-145 (plate tectonics)
	Mar. 4	Global Warming		Ch. 16
	Mar. 6	Global Warming	Presentation Sign up	Ch. 6

10	Mar.7-14	Spring Break!!

11	Mar. 16	Global Warming
	Mar. 18	Global Warming	Carbon calculator
	Mar. 20	Records of Climate		pp. 236-249, 290-292

12	Mar. 23	Paleoclimate
	Mar. 25	Paleoclimate		Ch. 14
	Mar. 27	An Inconvenient Truth/Discussion	Position paper

13	Mar. 30	Presentations
	Apr. 1	Presentations
	Apr. 3	Presentations

14	Apr. 6	EXAM 3
	Apr. 8	Stablization Triangle
	Apr. 10	Stablization Triangle	Triangle write-up

15	Apr. 13	Presentations
	Apr. 15	Presentations	Final paper
	Apr. 17	Presentations

16	Apr. 20	Presentations
	Apr. 22	Presentations