Soils and Climate Change
SOILS AND CLIMATE CHANGE covers basic soil science, climate change, soil carbon dynamics in urban, tropical, and arctic regions, and human influences on global soil carbon stocks.
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Explain the role of climate as a soil forming factor.
Describe the components of the terrestrial carbon cycle and how land management decisions and other human actions affect each component.
Explain the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge of enhancing soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change.
Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of conversion from traditional agriculture to regenerative agriculture and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course.
Predict how warming in the arctic may affect the release of greenhouse gasses, including CO2, N2O, and CH4 using reasonable assumptions and basic calculations.
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Soil represents the largest terrestrial pool of carbon, and our management of soil will play a key role in the future of our planet. Course topics include overviews of basic soil science and climate change science; how climate affects soil formation, soil carbon and soil organic matter; soil carbon dynamics in urban areas, the tropics, and the arctic; how humans influence soil carbon stocks around the globe.
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Topics
- Basic soil science and climate change science
- Climate effects on soil formation, carbon, and organic matter
- Soil carbon dynamics in urban areas, the tropics, and the arctic
- Human influences on global soil carbon stocks
- Conversion from traditional to regenerative agriculture
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- Explain the role of climate as a soil forming factor.
- Describe the components of the terrestrial carbon cycle and how land management decisions and other human actions affect each component.
- Predict how warming in the arctic may affect the release of greenhouse gasses, including CO2, N2O, and CH4 using reasonable assumptions and basic calculations.
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