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ACDC 2019 Lectures

Here you can find the tentative program for the summer school. The lecture slides (password protected) and student summaries of the lectures will be made available here

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Note that all slides will be password protected. There will be unpublished results in the lectures, so don't share or use the slides without permission from the presenter. All participants will receive a password and username. If you have problems accessing the files, please contact acdc@uib.no

Core lectures

Kerim Nisancioglu: The Anthropocene
(presentation slides)

Peter Huybers: Natural and human emissions forcings and climate change over the Holocene
(presentation slides / student summary)

Marysa Laguë: Climate projections and uncertainty in land-vegetation feedbacks
(presentation slides / student summary)
Literature (helpful but not necessary to read before hand. Useful as references): 
Bonan (2008)Friedlingstein, P. et al  (2014).

David Battisti: Attribution of the 20th and 21st century warming
(presentation slides / student summary)

Jessica Tierney: Proxies and the impact of past climate change on humans
(presentation slides / student summary)

Jake Gebbie: Attribution of ocean changes in the past millennium
(presentation slides / student summary)
Literature (to read beforehand): 
Gebbie, G., and P. Huybers (2019)McGregor, H. V., et al (2015).

Karen McKinnon: Predictions, projections and attribution of extreme events 
(presentation slides / student summary)
Literature:
Katz and Brown (1992), Stott et al. (2013)Trenberth et al. (2015)

Fiamma Straneo: Climate change in the Arctic
(presentation slides / student summary)

Natalya Gomez: Contributions to past and future sea level changes 
(presentation slides / student summary)

Field lectures

Kelly Martin: Fire and forest management
(student summary)

Øyvind Paasche: Landscape history of Yosemite and the environment
(presentation slides / student summary)

LeRoy Westerling: Climate and wildfires
(presentation slides / student summary)

Jessica Tierney: Bristlecone pine trees - longevity under adversity
(student summary)

Topical lectures

Peter Huybers: Climate Change and global food production
(presentation slides / student summary)

Marysa Laguë: Human influence on climate over the Holocene: Land use
(presentation slides / student summary)
Literature (helpful but not necessary to read before hand. Useful as references):
Swann et al. (2016), Saleska et al. (2016)Devaraju et al. (2015).

Jessica Tierney: Past impacts of climate change on people
(presentation slides / student summary)

Kerim Nisancioglu: Rate of Arctic climate change 
(presentation slides / student summary)

Fiamma Straneo: Climate Science in the Anthropocene
(presentation slides / student summary)