CLIMATE CHANGE ECOLOGY
EVENTS
You may attend up to three events for extra credit. Please write 1-2 pages (single-spaced) about the event (what was significant, important, noteworthy? what did you learn?) and turn in to me; you will earn up to 1% (depending on quality of write-up) of your total class grade for each event. As one of the three extra credit events, you may view one documentary or lecture online or on video on climate change and write about that (note that relevance to climate change will also be part of your score). NOTE: Please turn in your write-up within one week of the event.
Monday, January 16: Before the Flood, a film about climate change; Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Main Street, Moscow, 7 pm
Years of Living Dangerously, Season 2, shown at Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Main Street, Moscow, 7 pm
January 23: Episodes 1 (A Race Against Time) and Epsode 2 (Gathering Storm)
January 30: Episode 3 (Uprooted) and Episode 4 (Fueling the Fire)
February 6: Episode 5 (Collapse of the Oceans [NOTE: NO EXTRA CREDIT FOR THIS SEGMENT]) and Episode 6 (Priceless)
February 20: Episode 7 (Safe Passage) and Episode 8 (Uprising)
Friday, February 10, 1:30 pm, CNR 10, Department of Fish & Wildlife Sciences Seminar: “How seasonal camouflage hides animals while revealing mysteries of climate change”, Scott Mills, U. Montana
Wednesday, April 19: Before the Flood, a film about climate change; Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Main Street, Moscow, 7 pm
Tuesday, April 25: Fire, Drought, Beetles, and Humans: Quantifying the Impacts of Forest Disturbance on the Carbon Cycle, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Idaho Commons, Whitewater Room. Tara Hudiburg, UI College of Natural Resources. Terrestrial ecosystems remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and store carbon in dead and living biomass and in soils. Carbon is also released to the atmosphere by terrestrial ecosystems. The rate at which carbon is both stored and released is strongly affected by climate and disturbance regimes.