EOSC 212 Topics in Earth and Planetary Science 2018

• EOSC 212 Front Page
• wk 1&2: Thinking and communicating like a scientist: Basic tools
• wk 3: Inferences from the surface of Mars
• wk 4-6: Supercontinents, global glaciation, oxygen rise and life
• wk 7: Project 1. In Defense of your perfect abstract
• wk 8: Links between effective writing and deciphering patterns and trends in complex data in Earth and Planetary Science
• wk 9: Mantle plumes, plate tectonics and Earth's atmosphere
• wks 10: Probing the fingerprints of climate change
• wk 11 Water on an urban planet in the face of climate change
• wk 12: Capstone
• wk 13: Project 2. Poster on a Research Question
• Assignments
• How will you be assessed?
• Various Rubrics

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wk 1. Assignment 1: Becoming friends with ‘CONNECT’ and Why are you taking 212?

wk 2. Assignment 2: Read and abstract the paper by Tarduno. Define a couple of questions as per the guidelines in the assignment.

wk 3. Assignment 3: Read and abstract the paper by Christiansen. Define a couple of questions as per the guidelines in the assignment.

wk. 3. Assignment 4: Read the paper by Head and do a short exercise

wk 4. Assignment 5: Read about using LIDAR to investigate Mars’ clouds

wk 5. Assignment 6: Snowball Earth and the “pan-glacial” climate state

wk 6. SUBMIT A PDF OF YOUR GROUP’S TALK

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wk. 12. Assignment 11: Re-read the Tarduno paper.

wk. 13. SUBMIT A PDF OF YOUR GROUP’S POSTER


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