Global Changes - Past Biogeochemistry for the Future

This unit focuses on analyzing the impact of human activity on the climate and the environment

"- Understand how scientific research in the field of climate change works (IPCC);

- Be able to describe the main characteristics and orders of magnitude of current climate change and projected trends;

- Describe the main impacts of climate change and the associated challenges in the environmental, economic, political, and societal spheres;

- Describe human-induced impacts on the environment (e.g., heavy metals) and the climate;

- Learn about major past climate events and the tools used to reconstruct them;

- Stable and radiogenic isotope methods;

- Design, write, and present a paper that takes an integrative approach to geochronological, climatic, environmental, and sociocultural issues;

- "Apply knowledge in a variety of disciplinary and thematic contexts"

Comprehensive ongoing assessment: 100%