You must take the final exam during the final exam period. There will be no makeup final exam. If you do not take the final exam you will receive whatever grade you have earned based on your total points. If you miss one of the two exams and the final exam, you will receive an F for the course. Term Paper You will be required to write a comprehensive professional paper on some aspect of global change.
Hand drawn figures are only acceptable if they are inked and very professional.
If you use figures from journal articles make sure to use good reproductions and credit the source. Basically, I expect you to write a professional paper, as professional as any published scientific paper you read in journals. You will present the results of your paper in a talk of approximately 10 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes left for questions from the class. The presentation will be during the week previous to finals week. We may have to arrange some extra time to meet, depending on the number of presentations.