2023 Spring
Science Communication – (ESPM 227) [2 units]
Course Format:
3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 5 hours of outside work hours per week.
Description:
Effective communication is an important skill that all scientists should master. There are many different forms of communication, and these require different approaches and techniques. The goal of this course is to provide students with the skills to communicate scientific findings to a wide range of audiences. We will discuss approaches to communicating our findings and those of others to other scientists, the public, and the media. We will then prepare and practice communicating through papers, proposals, presentations, sound bites, and podcasts. Exercises and assignments are designed to give students hands on experience developing their own stories and packaging them to selected audiences.
Climate Change and the Future of California – (ESPM C46 or LS C46) [4 units]
Description:
Introduction to California geography, environment, and society, past and future climates, and the potential impacts of 21st-century climate change on ecosystems and human well-being. Topics include fundamentals of climate science and the carbon cycle; relationships between human and natural systems, including water supplies, agriculture, public health, and biodiversity; and the science, law, and politics of possible solutions that can reduce the magnitude and impacts of climate change.
Silver, Sedlak
2021 Spring
Ecosystem Ecology – (ESPM 111) [4 units]
Course Format:
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Fifteen to 20 hours of problem solving exercises per term. Formerly C111, Integrative Biology C155
Prerequisites:
Biology 1B.
Description:
This course will develop principles of ecosystems ecology, emphasizing terrestrial ecosystems, and will consider how these principles apply to ecosystem recovery and to regional and global fluxes of carbon and nutrients.
Baldocchi, Silver
Tropical Forest Ecology – Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM) 116C [3 units]
Course Format:
Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites:
One course in ecology and one course in chemistry or consent of instructor.
Description:
Introduction to the ecology of terrestrial tropical ecosystems, with particular emphasis on neotropical forests. Explores unique aspects of tropical ecosystems, especially nutrient cycles, net primary productivity, biological diversity, forest structure and dynamics, disturbance ecology, and the natural history of key forest organisms. Basic ecology is integrated with discussion of human disturbances, restoration of tropical ecosystems, and the global importance of tropical forests.
Silver