ENV 594a () / 2024-2025
Global Carbon Cycle
Note: this course information is for the 2024-2025 academic year, not the current academic year (2023-2024).
Credits: 3
Fall 2024: Time and location TBA
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Carbon is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, the building block for all of biochemistry, and the energy exchange material for the Earth’s metabolism. Over the past 200 years, people have mined fossil carbon to power the global economy, leading to profound transformations in the cycling of carbon among land, oceans, and atmosphere and disrupting Earth’s climate. This course explores in detail the cycling of labile carbon among the major biogeochemical reservoirs. We’ll spend roughly four weeks each on land and oceans and spend the final four weeks exploring carbon-climate.