Thin-stemmed saplings in a forest understory [photo: Hugh Henry]

DR. HUGH HENRY
Plant ecology, biogeochemistry and global change biology

Teaching

Bio 3445 - Community Ecology
Bio 4932 - Topics in Conservation Biology
BIO542b - Global Change Biology
This is a graduate level seminar course that will allow students to explore advanced topics in the field of global change biology. Assignments will include journal club-style presentations of individual research papers from the literature and a major essay and seminar based on a research topic and organized as a synthesis.

Appropriate topics consist of those outlined for the journal Global Change Biology and include the following:
Climate change
Global change
Land-use change
Rising carbon dioxide
Ocean warming
Atmospheric pollution
Carbon sequestration
Carbon mitigation
Global food security

Both biological responses and feedbacks to change are included, and may be considered at any level of organization from molecular to biome. Topics related to thesis work are acceptable.

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