GEOL 315 - Conservation Paleobiology

An investigation into how to “put the dead to work” to better understand the responses of species to current and future environmental change. Examines the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to changing environments in the past as preserved in fossil, archeological, and historical records. Because all of these records are incomplete, a primary focus is how incomplete and/or biased sampling can be addressed in paleontological and historical analyses. Additional topics include extinction risk, shifting baselines, environmental proxies, anthropogenic environmental change, and quantitative methods.

Credits: 1.00
Corequisite: None
Prerequisites:

GEOL 215

Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: None
Area of Inquiry: Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing
Core Component: None

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