Assistant Professor Position (Tenure Track) in Biological Oceanography/Marine Ecology
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Introducing the new Cluster on Global Environmental Change
A new series of courses that will be offered in the Fall 2009 semester and beyond.
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The New
CLUSTER* ONGLOBAL
ENVIRONMENTALCHANGE -Beginning
Fall 2009-
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Human activities are causing rapid changes in many aspects of the earth’s environment. The goal of the Global Environmental Change cluster is to integrate scientific perspectives on historic and current climate dynamics with societal and economic assessments of current, past, and future environmental changes. The courses in the Global Environmental Change cluster will cover the causes, consequences, and in some cases mitigation of environmental and climate changes from a variety of perspectives, using examples from terrestrial, marine, and atmospheric environments. The cluster is centered around a core course (MASC 310, “Our Changing Planet: Science, Social Impacts, Solutions”) that will present a natural sciences/social sciences perspective on global warming and other large-scale trends (present, past, and future) that impact our environment. This course, as well as all of the science-based courses listed below, is aimed at and accessible to 3rd and 4th year undergraduates; special expertise in the natural sciences is not assumed or required.
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Courses offered Fall 2009:• MASC 310 Our Changing Planet: Science, Social Impacts, Solutions (core course) [NS] • PHIL 368/ENST 368 Environmental Ethics and Values [HM] • ANTH 312 (to be crosslisted as MASC 312) From the Equator to the Poles: Case Studies in Global Environmental Change [SS/NS] • MASC 314 Earth Systems in a Changing World [NS] • GEOG 414 Physical Climatology: Introduction to Climate Change [SS] |
Offered in coming semesters:• MASC 432 Major World Rivers and Global Change: From Mountains to the Sea [NS] • ANTH 460 Historical Ecology [SS] • PLCY 480 Environmental Decision Making [SS] |
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