This unit investigates environmental records to understand how landscapes respond to climate and environmental change. This unit considers historical climate changes and environmental response, and how the prehistoric record from sediment, tree rings, ice cores, marine cores and landforms can be used to reconstruct past environments to gain an understanding of how the earth system evolves. These records are then related to evidence of environmental change seen in the local Australian landscape, and investigated during field excursions, including a week long field trip during the mid-semester break. This unit provides case studies of how these reconstructions have influenced our current... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Kira Westaway, Dr Paul Hesse
Prerequisites: 39cp including (ENVE266(P) or GEOS266(P) or ENVE214(Cr) or GEOS214(Cr))
