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December 19, 2022
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Description
This course introduces the parallel evolution of life and the environment.
Life processes are influenced by chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and the solid earth. In turn, life can influence chemical and physical processes on our planet. This course explores the concept of life as a geological agent and examines the interaction between biology and the earth system during the roughly 4 billion years since life first appeared
Course Curriculum
- Introductions; Rationale Unlimited
- The Solar System and Earth Accretion and Differentiation Unlimited
- Theories Pertaining to the Origin of Life Unlimited
- Biogeochemical Tracers Unlimited
- Biogeochemical Tracers Unlimited
- Biogeochemical Tracers Unlimited
- Acid-Base Reactions Unlimited
- Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Species Unlimited
- Environmental Redox and Photosynthesis Unlimited
- Environmental Redox and Photosynthesis (cont.) Unlimited
- Oxygenation of Earth’s Atmosphere Unlimited
- The Climate History of Earth Unlimited
- Evolution and Radiation of Photosynthetic Organisms Unlimited
- The Rise Of Animals Unlimited
- Biomineralization Unlimited
- Major Transitions in Earth History: Mass Extinctions and Radiations Unlimited
- Extremophiles Unlimited
- Modern Microbiological Methods Unlimited
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