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SDG 15 – Life on Land

  • Assignment 4 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis)

    Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis.

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  • Assignment 3 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis)

    Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis.

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  • Assignment 2 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis)

    Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis.

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  • Assignment 1 (Theoretical Environmental Analysis)

    Problem set from the class Theoretical Environmental Analysis.

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  • Graduate Course Project

    Each graduate student taking this class for credit should decide on a term-project. We ask for a 10-page written report (maximum length), and a 20 minute oral presentation to the class before the end of term. Undergraduates do not have to give an oral report (but may, if they wish) and a six-page paper is acceptable. Projects can expand on something covered in class, or be some climate-relevant project not touched upon. In the past, most such projects have been reviews of some interesting topics. A few students have succeeded in doing an original piece of work, but this is certainly not a requirement.

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  • Ocean Physics and Climate

    The object of this problem set is to explore climate sensitivity in a slightly more complex version of the multi-level radiative-convective model discussed in class.

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  • Paleoclimate

    Problem set focused on paleoclimate from the course Climate Physics and Chemistry.

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  • Discussion Question – Ecology

    In the transcript of Slavoj Žižek’s conversation from Examined Life, he says, "the true ecologist must also accept that nature is the ultimate human myth, that we humans, when we perceive ourselves as beyond nature, exploiting nature and so on, we also, through this opposition, create a certain image of nature. And that idealized image of nature is the ultimate obstacle to ecology. So, again, this is why my formula is ecology without nature. The first duty is to drop this heavily ideologically mythological, invested notion of nature." What do you think? What are the two notions of "ecology" he is comparing? Do you agree? 

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