Study and critical analysis of topics, research, and texts pertinent to environmental science, policy, and management. Different topics will be available each semester reflecting faculty and student interest.

This course will give students a primer on boundary layer meteorology, and cycles of energy, water, and carbon between the land surface and the atmosphere. We will discuss how processes on timescales ranging from a few hours; like the diurnal cycle of surface heating, to decades; like the possibilities of multiple equilibrium states of a land surface influenced by precipitation recycling, influence land surface climate variability. Applications to agriculture, human health, and ecosystems will also be discussed. Students will lead class presentations on a few classic papers in the field and develop a term project that will either be a literature review or a presentation of new research.

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