Fall 2008 Calendar
| Tuesdays | Thursdays |
| 26-Aug No Class |
28-Aug Introduction to course and web materials |
| 02-Sept Lecture One Concepts and natural variations in isotope abundance |
04-Sept Lecture Two Analytical approaches to measuring stable isotopes |
| 09-Sept Lecture Three Precipitation |
11-Sept Lecture Four Streams, lakes, and groundwater |
| 16-Sept Lecture Five Where do plants get their water from? |
18-Sept Lecture Six Evaporation processes in plants and animals |
| 23-Sept Lecture Seven Photosynthesis and ecophysiological constraints |
25-Sept Lecture Eight Ecological gradients impact carbon isotope distributions |
| 30-Sept Lecture Nine Carbon dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems Problem Set Due!! |
02-Oct Lecture Ten Plants and microbes |
| 07-Oct Lecture Eleven Nitrogen dynamics in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems |
09-Oct Examination One |
| 14-Oct No Class - Fall Break |
16-Oct No Class - Fall Break |
| 21-Oct Lecture Twelve "You are what you eat": isotopes and animal diet |
23-Oct Lecture Thirtee Nitrogen isotopes as indicators of trophic feeding levels |
| 28-Oct Lecture Fourteen Carbonates and enamels as dietary and environmental recorders |
30-Oct Lecture Fifteen Carbon dioxide and the carbon cycle |
| 04-Nov Lecture Sixteen Carbon cycles in oceans |
06-Nov Lecture Seventeen Biosphere-atmosphere fluxes and water stress |
| Friday, 07-Nov Term Paper - Part I Due!! |
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| 11-Nov Lecture Eighteen Short term: tree rings as terrestrial recorders |
13-Nov Lecture NIneteen Long term: ice cores and carbonates |
| 18-Nov Lecture Twenty Spatial analysis and reconstructing migration in birds |
20-Nov Lecture Twenty One Spatial analyses of microbes - food, locations, histories |
| 25-Nov Examination Two |
27-Nov No Class - Thanksgiving Break |
| 02-Dec Lecture Twenty Two Spatial analyses of mammal movements |
04-Dec Lecture Twenty Three Ancestral and modern human diets and commerce patterns |
| 09-Dec Term Paper - Part II Due!! Student PowerPoint Presentations |
11-Dec Term Paper - Part II Due!! Student PowerPoint Presentations |
| Friday, 12-Dec Term Paper - Part III Due!! |
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