Polar Environments

Catalog description

An examination of the geography of Arctic and Antarctic environments, including climate, hydrology, cryosphere, oceans, economics, ecosystems, and cultures. A variety of polar issues will be addressed, including improvements in long term monitoring, climate change process studies, modeling and analyses of impacts on ice sheets, sea ice, natural resources, indigenous peoples and society. Much of the course is concerned with the identification of the state of our understanding of past and present interactions of cryosphere and changing environments.