Note that while all study guides provide an outline and study questions, not all of them have supplementary information. Case studies Throughout the term, we will examine in detail several real-world issues of global change. Here's where you not only learn about global change biology, you get to apply what you learn exactly like you will as graduate students and professional scientists. Most of these issues are very politically important and controversial, giving you some exposure to the interface of science and policy. My goal is to stimulate creativity, critical thinking, and inductive reasoning skills by examining interesting stories that have a message.
Case studies constitute a significant portion of the group grade.
Refer to these instructions for preparing your case reports. Note my clear expectation that you will be active participants. This is an important part of global change science. In order to determine how current alterations of the environment will affect ecosystems in the future, we need ways to make confident predictions. The only way we can do this with reasonable accuracy and care is to develop mathematical models of biological and environmental systems.