Date
Topic
5/3
Human Population, Population Trends, Carrying Capacity, Human
Impacts, Migration, Population Policy, Disease, Zero Population Growth,
Replacement Level, Demographic Transition, Age Structure Diagram
Presentation
Dr. Salmassi
5/5
Agriculture, Irrigation, Famine, Land Use, Green Revolution, GM crops,
Midterm Review
Dr. Salmassi
1.Elsa Mercado
2.Hardy Carballo
3.Michael Sechi
4.Victor Labastida
5.Cynthia Taba
6.Christina Castro
7.Jacqueline Pereira
5/12
Energy, McKelvey Diagram, Biofuels, Crude Oil Supply, Ethanol, Fossile
Fuels, Methane, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy
Dr. Salmassi
8.Jacklynn Recinos
9.Anh Du
10.Christina Cardena
11.Jacqueline
Assadourian
12.Tang Hoang
13.Mayra Martinez
5/17
Deforestation, Desertification, Urban Climates, Heat Islands, Dams
Dr. Narguizian
14.Wilkie Ngo
15.Khiara Hernandez
16.Jesse Granados
17.Juan Flores
18.Cesar Rodriguez
19.Susana Hernandez
20.Reginald Gregory
5/19
Biosphere, Biomes, Topical forests, Temperate Forests, Marine
Ecosystems, Freshwater Ecosystems, Conservation, Ecosystems,
Biodiversity, Extinction of Species, Wetlands, Fisheries
Dr. Narguizian
21.Elizabeth
Hovhannessian
22.Gabriela Lopez
23.Gregory Namba
24.Rosalia Flores
25.Daisy Gomez
26.Mario Gallardo
5/24
Coral Reefs, Coral Bleaching, Coastlines
Dr. Narguizian
27.Ani Khachatryan
28.Rachelle Montero
29.Angela Zhou
30.Katya Erkebaeva
31.Lexie Carlos
5/26
Ethics, Intergenerational Equity, Tragedy of the Commons, Belief
Systems, Land Preservation, Land Reclamation, Wildlife Management,
Climate Change & Societal Development, Environmental Performance
Index, Globalization, Sustainable Growth
32.Ngoc Chim
33.Kuan-Tsen Chen
34.Sosi Abrahamian
35.Lizandra Guerrero
36.Tanisha Williams
Dr. Narguizian
5/31
Carbon Capture & Storage, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Taxes, Emissions
Trading, Pest Management, Nuclear Waste, Ocean Disposal, Waste
Management, Gaia Hypothesis
Dr. Narguizian
6/2
Kyoto Protocol, Countries and the Environment (US, China, India,
Australia, etc…), Conclusion/Review
Dr. Salmassi/Dr. Narguizian
37.Diana Villa Laverde
38.Samuel Kwon
39.Laura Zepeda
40.Jennifer Prado
41.Manuel Siordia
42.Debra Bianculli
43.Lance Johnson
44.Jesse Torres
45.Melissa Erving
46. Luis Gonzalez
From Global Change Biology published in 2011
1. Climate change increases the risk of malaria in birds
2. Impact of climate change and human-mediated introgression on southern
European Atlantic salmon populations
3. Temperature effects on oxygen thresholds for hypoxia in marine benthic
organisms
4. Ocean acidification and warming will lower coral reef resilience
5. Increases in lake phytoplankton biomass caused by future climate-driven
changes to seasonal river flow
6. The legacy of enhanced N and S deposition as revealed by the combined
analysis of δ13C, δ18O and δ15N in tree rings
7. Nitrogen addition stimulates forest litter decomposition and disrupts species
interactions in Patagonia, Argentina
8. Soil heterogeneity buffers community response to climate change in speciesrich grassland
9. Isoprene emissions from plants are mediated by atmospheric CO2
concentrations
10.
Warming alters the size spectrum and shifts the distribution of biomass in
freshwater ecosystems
11.
Extreme climatic events reduce ocean productivity and larval supply in a
tropical reef ecosystem
12.
Are phytoplankton blooms occurring earlier in the Arctic?
13.
Methane emissions from tropical freshwater wetlands located in different
climatic zones of Costa Rica
14.
Post-Soviet farmland abandonment, forest recovery, and carbon
sequestration in western Ukraine
15.
Temperature extremes and butterfly fitness: conflicting evidence from life
history and immune function
16.
The role of climate, habitat, and species co-occurrence as drivers of
change in small mammal distributions over the past century
17.
Have jellyfish in the Irish Sea benefited from climate change and
overfishing?
18.
Feedback of carbon and nitrogen cycles enhances carbon sequestration in
the terrestrial biosphere
19.
Effects of elevated ozone concentration on methane emission from a rice
paddy in Yangtze River Delta, China
20.
Future active layer dynamics and carbon dioxide production from thawing
permafrost layers in Northeast Greenland
21.
Ecological and environmental footprint of 50 years of agricultural
expansion in Argentina
22.
Phenological responses to extreme droughts in a Mediterranean forest
23.
Evidence of changing intrinsic water-use efficiency under rising
atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Boreal Fennoscandia from subfossil leaves
and tree ring δ13C ratios
24.
Climate change predicted to cause severe increase of organic carbon in
lakes
25.
Footprints of climate change in the Arctic marine ecosystem
26.
Expanding northward: influence of climate change, forest connectivity,
and population processes on a threatened species' range shift
27.
What makes an urban bird?
28.
On the potential for ocean acidification to be a general cause of ancient
reef crises
29.
Disaster taxa in microbially mediated metazoans: how endosymbionts and
environmental catastrophes influence the adaptive capacity of reef corals
30.
Effects of river temperature and climate warming on stock-specific
survival of adult migrating Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
31.
Nutrient recycling by fish in streams along a gradient of agricultural land
use
32.
Vulnerability of sea turtle nesting grounds to climate change
33.
Climate change and the phytoplankton spring bloom: warming and
overwintering zooplankton have similar effects on phytoplankton
34.
Targeted protection and restoration to conserve tropical biodiversity in a
warming world
35.
Global climate cycles and cyclones: consequences for rainfall patterns and
lemur reproduction in southeastern Madagascar
36.
Climate change effects on walnut pests in California
37.
Large geographical differences in the sensitivity of ice-covered lakes and
rivers in the Northern Hemisphere to temperature changes
38.
Responses of High Arctic wet sedge tundra to climate warming since 1980
39.
Elevated ozone reduces methane emissions from peatland mesocosms
40.
Direct effects of temperature on forest nitrogen cycling revealed through
analysis of long-term watershed records
41.
How strong is the current carbon sequestration of an Atlantic blanket
bog?
42.
Effects of land use change and management on the European cropland
carbon balance
43.
Effect of climate change over the past half century on the distribution,
extent and NPP of ecosystems of Inner Mongolia
44.
Differential responses of production and respiration to temperature and
moisture drive the carbon balance across a climatic gradient in New Mexico
45.
The greenhouse gas value of ecosystems
46.
Differential responses in two varieties of winter wheat to elevated ozone
concentration under fully open-air field conditions