| Course title | |||||
| 環境資源科学特別講義Ⅲ [Special Lecture on Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources III] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 0.5 | ||
| Department | Year | 3～ | Semester | 4th | |
| Course type | 4th | Course code | 01en3058 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 中村 隆志, 梅澤 有 [NAKAMURA Takashi, UMEZAWA Yu] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | afjgxte/L1151 | Email address | |
| Course description |
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The instructor of this intensive lecture is Takashi Nakamura, associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. The date of the lecture will be announced in this syllabus and Classroom until the end of September 2021. 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. 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 the environment and ecosystems is also an important factor for the 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 |
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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. Corresponding criteria in the Diploma policy: See the curriculum maps. https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/ |
| Course schedule |
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The contents are as follows. 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 The lecture will be conducted in the following schedule. 〇月△日（●）の×－×限 （Schedule undecided: Posted by the end of September） |
| Prerequisites |
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The contents lectured in the classes such as “Ecosystem Management”, “Marine Environmental Studies”, “Environmental Pollution Chemistry”, “Environmental Toxicology”, “Geochemistry”, “Earth Science”, "Geo-Environmental Studies", and “Earth Environment Geology” will help you to understand the contents in this class. In addition to 8 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as indicated in the student guidelines of TUAT and using the lecture handouts as well as the references specified below. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| No specific texts. Handouts will be distributed. |
| References |
| Nothing in particular |
| Assessment/Grading |
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Learning achievement is evaluated by combining results from quizzes/short reports (50 %), and final report (50 %). Since this class is an intensive lecture by a part-time lecturer, the grade distribution of the previous year is not available. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| If you have any questions before registering for the course and/or before taking the course, please feel free to contact Nakamura by email. |
| 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 |
| Please check the Classroom of this class about the changes in the syllabus which is associated with the spread of COVID-19 infection. |
| Remarks 2 |
| Contact person in TUAT is Yu Umezawa (umezawa@me.tuat.ac.jp). |
| Related URL |
| http://www.nakamulab.mei.titech.ac.jp/ |
| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 2/7/2021 3:29:26 AM |