| Course title | |||||
| 環境化学特別講義Ⅱ [Special Lectures on Environmental ChemistryⅡ] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 0.5 | ||
| Department | Year | 1～ | Semester | 1st | |
| Course type | 1st | Course code | 05MK5626 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 中村 隆志, 梅澤 有 [NAKAMURA Takashi, UMEZAWA Yu] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | afjgxte/L1151 | Email address | |
| Course description |
| Multiple environmental stresses including global environmental changes, e.g. global warming and ocean acidification, and local anthropogenic stresses, e.g. water pollution, are seriously affecting various ecosystems. In order to understand recent environmental changes and associated ecosystem changes, and to predict the future, it is necessary to understand the climate change history and the global environmental system. Ecosystems respond to environmental conditions. On the other hand, we need to understand that environment can also be affected by ecosystems. Therefore the interaction between environment and ecosystems is also an important factor for environmental system. In this course, historical changes of past-present-future climate and driving forces in each time scale are reviewed, and it is also explained that the actual situation concerning the effects of global/local-scale environmental stresses on ecosystems and the relationship between the causes and the socio-economic structure. |
| Expected Learning |
| By the end of this class, students will be able to: (1) understand past-present history and future of climate change, its driving forces and an overview of the global environmental system, (2) acquire important points of modeling for ecosystem phenomena and mechanisms, and (3) understand ecosystem dynamics under various environmental conditions and environment-ecosystem interactions. |
| Course schedule |
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Class 1. Global climate change and its driving forces Class 2. Global carbon cycle Class 3. Basics of mathematical ecology and ecosystem modeling Class 4. Environmental features and issues of coral reef ecosystem |
| Prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
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No specific texts. Handout will be distributed. |
| References |
| Nothing |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Learning achievement is evaluated by combining results from quizzes/short reports (50 %), and final report (50 %). |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Course keywords |
| climate change, carbon cycle, ecosystem modeling, coral reef ecosystem |
| Office hours |
| If you have any questions, please ask by e-mail (nakamura.t.av@m.titech.ac.jp). |
| Remarks 1 |
| Remarks 2 |
| Related URL |
| http://www.nakamulab.mei.titech.ac.jp/ |
| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 4/18/2019 10:58:30 AM |