Paleoclimate Dynamics - Einzelansicht

This course runs as part of elective module GEW-ME04 - Modern Trends in Geosciences (2022) and as GEW-MGEW13 Paleoclimate Dynamics in the Master in Geowissenschaften (2010). We have booked the small meeting room 2.27.2.24, where we sit together at one table instead of in a classroom arrangement of tables and a lectern. However, we will also be streaming the course with Zoom, as the room offers modern audio-visual technology with a large screen. The course was offered in a new form for the first time in WiSe 2022/23. Each topic from the field of paleoclimate dynamics will first be introduced by me with an overview lecture, before I cover current topics in special lectures together with colleagues worldwide. In an accompanying seminar, special topics will be explored in more depth, with participants seeking to present and discuss recent developments, hypotheses, controversies in the form of press releases, short presentations and tweets. Faculative exercises/homework will include short (partly computational) assignments on paleoclimate dynamics. The Moodle site provides extensive teaching material, for example (pre)recorded lectures, guest contributions, reading material, exercises and recommendations for further information. The final exam includes individual work on a controversial topic of paleoclimate dynamics, i.e. not the retelling of papers, but the task is actually to recognize and present the current controversy (and its proponents), either as a (recorded) lecture or as an essay.