Past Environmental Change

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This course is an overview of the study of environmental change during the Quaternary. Approaches used to understand past climatic conditions and effects on terrestrial and marine ecosystems at global, regional, and local scales are explored as well as physical, geochemical, and biological methods associated with continuous and depositional environments. This course is taught largely at an undergraduate level. Graduate students have additional course requirements/expectations. Prerequisite: GEO 221 or GEO 222 ; junior standing. Offered Spring - Even Numbered Years.