Month

day

Topic 1 (2:00 PM)

Topic 2 (3:30 PM)

Sept.

8

Introduction & “A Private Universe”

Geological time

Sept.

15

Earth's geology and climate system

Climate archives (time-series analysis of climate data)

Sept.

22

Solar evolution & solar variability (Greg A. – 2:45)

Plate tectonics, weathering and volcanism and carbon cycling

Sept.

29

Albedo, climate forcing and climate feedbacks

Snowball Earth (Jeff L.)

Oct

6

Carbon chemistry (Erik K.)

Carbon chemistry visualizations

Oct

13

Phanerozoic & Mesozoic climate changes  - Mass extinctions and climate change

 Carbon & oxygen isotopes and climate records

Oct

20

Visit Climate Change lab at University of Victoria.  Leaving VIU at 1:00 PM and getting back here around 6 PM.

Oct

27

Carbon biology (David G-G.)

The last 65 million years and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal maximum

Nov

3

  Orbital cycles and climate forcing

The Pleistocene Glaciations

Nov.

10

Climate since the last deglaciation

Millennial-scale climate cycles

Nov.

17

 ENSO and other short-term climate cycles

Anthropogenic factors in climate change

Nov.

24

Observed impacts of climate change (Mountain pine beetle, tropical storms, fisheries, stream flow, forestry, loss of ice, biological range changes)

Dec.

1

Presentations and discussion on the record of climate change in BC.