Global
Biogeochemical Cycles
Textbook: Biogeochemistry - An Analysis of Global
Change, by W. H. Schlesinger, 2nd ed., AP 1997
Welcome to the course web page.
Throughout the semester I will be posting class material that I covered.
Generally, posting will happen on Thursday afternoons, latest Friday
afternoons.
All overheads used in the class will be available. Please contact me
immediately
via e-mail if you miss a certain one.
Remember that term paper drafts are
due Thursday, Dec. 1!
Email me your text file (word preferred).
PLEASE be in class Tuesday, Dec. 6, to
attend class presentations and to fill out the class evaluation form!
Class Syllabus
Schedule for the Term Papers:
1. Hand in outline: Thursday, Nov. 17
2. Hand in draft: Thursday, Dec. 1
3. Presentations: Tuesday, Dec. 6
4. Last day to hand in final version: Tuesday, Dec. 13
Advisor feedback follows each step.
Quizzes
1. Quiz, Sept. 13, 2005
Correct Answers
with Comments
2. Quiz, Oct. 6, 2005
Correct
Answers
with Comments
3. Quiz, Nov. 3., 2005
Correct
Answers
with Comments
The correct Entry-Quiz answers are here.
The statistics are here.
Schedule:
August 30: Origin of elements
September 1: Origin of
earth, early atmosphere; the
building blocks of life
September 6: Origin of life and
the rise of oxygen in the
atmosphere
September 8: Biogeochemical
Cycle - Definitions; Global Oxygen Cycle
September 13 & 15: Earth's
Atmosphere - Transport Medium and Reactor
September 20 & 22: Earth's
Atmosphere - Transport Medium and Reactor
September 27 & 29: The
Lithosphere - Soils and Soil Processes
October 4 & 6: Terrestrial
Ecosystems, Processes and Reactions
October 11 & 13: Terrestrial
Ecosystems, NPP fate and N-cycling
October 18 & 20+25: The role
of
the Oceans in biogeochemical cycling
October 27: Biogeochemistry
of Anaerobic Metabolism (in sediments and soils)
November 1: A case study:
Methane in the Atmosphere
November 3: The Global
Water Cycle
November 8: The Global Sulfur Cycle
November 10: The Global
Nitrogen Cycle
November 15: Biomass
burning as a source of trace gases to the atmosphere
November 17: The Global
Phosphorus Cycles
November 22: The Global
Carbon Cycle - Basics
November 29: The
Global Carbon Cycle - Details