GSCI 235, Spring
This is a lecture, field, and lab-intensive course that explores in detail climate proxies and how proxies are used to interpret past, current, and future climate change. The course focuses heavily on reconstructing the Earth’s past climate using different records and measures of climate change by collecting samples, conducting data analysis, and making interpretations of the NY region climate history. The goals of the course are to analyze proxies, instrumental records, and assess global and regional datasets to determine the timing and magnitude of climate change in Earth history, in the current record and to aid in our preparation for future environmental change. This course involves field and lab research, experiments, data synthesis, and exploration.
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