WEEK VI  SCHEDULE  AND  READINGS
WEEK 1 | WEEK2 | WEEK 3 | WEEK 4 | WEEK 5 | WEEK 6: Midweek, Sat | RETURN TO SYLLABUS
(Schedules etc. subject to modification)

4.00-5.00p (by appointment) & 6.00-6.30p - Before & after class:  -

• Instructor consultation (request time slot by email) - Project Data Analysis and Presentation Preparation
• Bring your data and PowerPt files along with your laptop
• See: Final presentation guidelines
  

5.00p –

• Lecture - Climate Change in the High Front Range & Ecological Vulnerability to Climate Change
  

• Historical Climate Change in a Mid-Latitude Mountain System – Niwot Ridge Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA - (pdf, 1.4M)
• Handout (pdf, 200k): Summary of hemispheric, regional, and landscape linkages influencing temperature and precipitation trends in the Subalpine and High Alpine of Niwot Ridge
• Reference: Kittel, T., et al.  2015.  Contrasting long-term alpine and subalpine precipitation trends in a mid-latitude North American mountain system, Colorado Front Range, USA.  Plant Ecology & Diversity 8:607-624 (pdf, 2M)

• Also from previous years: Determinants of Species Vulnerability to Climate & Other Threats:  Facing Certainty & Uncertainty (pdf, 2M)
• Handout (pdf, k): Determinants and consequences of species vulnerability (from: Kittel 2013). 
• Reference:  Kittel, T.  2013.  The Vulnerability of Biodiversity to Rapid Climate Change. (pdf, 2M)
  

10:15p – Turn in Project Presentation PPt's (and excel files) - on a USB drive

10:30-3:30p – Individual projects: Oral presentations (10 mins each + 5 mins for questions), Marr Lab Seminar Room (Order of presentations announced that morning)

• 10.30-11.20a - Intro; 3 presentations
• 11.20a - break
• 11.30-12.20n - 3 presentations
• 12.20n - Lunch
• 1.00-2.10p - 4 presentations
• 2.10p - break: Class Photo
• 2.20-3.20p - 3 presentations; Wrap-up
  

4:00-7.00p – Film - with intermission for Farewell Dinner.

• Film - Dersu Uzala
• "A Russian army explorer is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asiatic hunter." (IMDB)
• 1975. Director: Akira Kurosawa.  Also known for "Seven Samurai" (1954)
  
• Oscar 1976 for Best Foreign Language Film
• runtime 2h24m
• Russian with English subtitles