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Global Climate Change
Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
× Consequences of global climate change already include: increased drought, heat waves, flood intensity, glacial retreat, and sea level rise. Solutions are needed to reduce human impact on our climate system ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory

Climatology
Cindy Shellito, University of Northern Colorado
This course is designed to help students gain a scientific understanding of the physical aspects of Earth's climate system and the factors that influence climate change. We explore the global balance of energy ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Solar radiation, Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Global energy balance, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Forecasting, Seasonal patterns, Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Hydrologic cycle, El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric circulation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Energy, heat and temperature, Solar and terrestrial radiation
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

Paleoclimatology
Cindy Shellito, University of Northern Colorado
This course introduces students to the methods of paleoclimatology and provides a survey of major climatic events over the history of the Earth. The course incorporates journal articles and web resources to teach ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

North American Environments
Marguerite Forest, Florida Gulf Coast University
Natural environments of North America (north of Mexico and excluding Florida) and critical environmental issues in the region will be examined in terms of geology/geomorphology, climate/weather, and biogeography ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

The Earth's Climate System
Louisa Bradtmiller, Macalester College
This course will be taught once per year. It provides an introduction to the climate system through lectures, labs, discussions and activities. It uses lecture and inquiry based activities to help students gain ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse effect, Climate feedbacks, Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino, Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Greenhouse gas emissions, Global change modeling, Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes, Paleoclimate records, Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Solar radiation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, El Nino/La Nina
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory

Planetary Climate Change
Dave Dempsey, San Francisco State University
What are weather and climate, how has climate changed in the past, how do we know, what causes climate to change, and how can we predict future climate? Planetary Climate Change explores scientists' current ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
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Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

Global Environmental Obstacles
Walter Borowski, Eastern Kentucky University
The course uses Mackenzie's Our Changing Planet as a template and investigates world population, diminishing water resources, anthropogenic effects on the atmosphere (ozone hole and acid rain), and global ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geoscience:Hydrology, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Air Quality, Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Ozone depletion, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science:Human Population
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory

Earth Systems and Climate Change
Elizabeth Johnson, James Madison University
GGEOL 115 explores cycles, trends, and abrupt events in the Earth system. Analyses of the geologic record and global climate models provide perspective for understanding paleoclimate and future climate changes, ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Climate Change
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory

Dr. Alycia Lackey: Bio 103-Saving Planet Earth at Murray State University
Alycia Lackey, Murray State University
At the end of this course that covers a broad spectrum of human impacts on the earth, we used Unit 1 Introduction to Environmental Justice to discuss how people make decisions about their interactions with the environment. Earlier in the course, students had already developed an understanding of human impacts on the environment and political, philosophical, and social perspectives.

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory

Global Change and Human Health
The course begins by focusing on the dynamics of Earth's physical systems and the impacts of increasing human population on those systems, and concludes by examining several critical health issues in light of ...

Subject: Atmospheric Science: Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience, Soils, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Geoscience:Oceanography, Environmental Science:Air Quality, Soils and Agriculture, Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Health Sciences, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Human Population, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology
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Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory