ENV 594a () / 2024-2025

Global Carbon Cycle

Credits: 3 Fall 2024: M,W, 9:00-10:20, Kroon 319

Carbon is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, the building block for all of biochemistry, and the energy exchange material for the Earth’s metabolism. Over the past 200 years, people have mined fossil carbon to power the global economy, leading to profound transformations in the cycling of carbon among land, oceans, and atmosphere and disrupting Earth’s climate. This course explores in detail the cycling of labile carbon among the major biogeochemical reservoirs. We’ll spend roughly four weeks each on land and oceans and spend the final four weeks exploring carbon-climate.