GEO 135 - GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
FALL 2018
Dr. J. Anthony Stallins
Course syllabus
Grades to date
Month
Day
Lecture topic
Quizzes
Assigned reading/video
Aug 23 Thursday 1 Introduction
2 Scale
3 Natural climate change
4 Carbon cycle
 
  24 Friday
 
  28 Tuesday
 
  30 Thursday
Quiz 1
How to Let Go of the World
  31 Friday  
Quiz 2
The Fragile Framework
Sept 4 Tuesday  
 
  6 Thursday  
 
  7 Friday UK Core Component 1
Quiz 3
The Last Great Warming
  11 Tuesday  
 
  13 Thursday  
 
  14 Friday  
Quiz 4
Carbon Trends
  18 Tuesday
TEST 1
 
  20 Thursday

5 Historic anthropogenic climate change
6 Climate modeling and prediction
7 Air pollution and land use
influences
8 Heat stress and human health

 
  21 Friday
Quiz 5
Maps Hidden in Trees
  25 Tuesday
 
  27 Thursday
 
  28 Friday  
 
Oct 2 Tuesday  
 
  4 Thursday  
 
  5 Friday UK Core Component 2
Quiz 6/7
Losing Earth
  9 Tuesday  
 
  11 Thursday  
Quiz 8
Power of Pollution
  12 Friday  
Quiz 9
Thermal Delight
  16 Tuesday
TEST 2
 
  18 Thursday 9 Melting of the cryosphere
10 Sea level rise
11 Coral reef and climate change

12 Extreme weather events
Quiz 10
Chasing Ice
  19 Friday
Quiz 11
When Rising Seas Transform Risk Into Certainty
  23 Tuesday
 
  25 Thursday
 
  26 Friday  
Quiz 12
Bangladesh and the Water's Will
  30 Tuesday  
 
Nov 1 Thursday  
 
  2 Friday  
Quiz 13
The Coming Floods
  6 Tuesday  
 
  8 Thursday  
 
  9 Friday  
Quiz 14
Chasing Coral
  13 Tuesday
TEST 3
 
  15 Thursday 13 Freshwater scarcity and surplus
14 Geoengineering

15 Politics of climate change
Quiz 15
Surrendering to the Rising Seas
  16 Friday
Quiz 16
Shored Up
  20 Tuesday
 
  27 Tuesday  
 
  29 Thursday  
 
  30 Friday  
Quiz 18
Oyster-Tecture
Dec 4 Tuesday  
 
  6 Thursday  
Quiz 19
How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself
  7 Friday  
Quiz 20
Is it Okay To Tinker with The Environment to Fight Climate Change?
  13 Thursday
TEST 4 (10:30 am)