Instructors

Rajdeep Dasgupta, Andre Droxler, Melodie French, Helge Gonnermann, Cin-Ty Lee, Adrian Lenardic, Caroline Masiello, Jeff Nittrouer, Mark Torres, Laurence Yeung

tentative list of topics

Deep Earth and planetary carbon – Dasgupta group

Deep Earth-atmosphere interactions from mantle dynamics perspective – Lenardic group

Tectonism, magmatism and carbon cycling – Lee group

Weathering and carbonate precipitation – Torres group

Sedimentary processes – Nittrouer group

Sedimentary basins and stratigraphy –

Carbonate systems – Droxler group

Ocean-atmosphere carbon cycling – Yeung group

Soil carbon – Masiello

Climate through time

Origin of shale source rocks

Group Projects

Project Title Group Members
Effects of Initiation of Plate Tectonics on Carbon and Oxygen Cycles James, Daman, and Johnny
CO2 Release Through Permafrost Thawing Sriparna, Asmita, Sahand, and Jackson
Effects of Climate Change on Worldwide Albedo Laura, Proteek, Trevor, and Jules
Silicate Weathering: Felsic vs. Mafic Alex, Eytan, Patrick, and Michael

Monday 11/20/2017

Discussion on Carbonate Chemistry

DIC addendum

Monday, 11/13/2017

Reading:

FalkowskiNature 1997

FieldScience 1998

igmanNature 2000

MarcottNature 2014

Laurence recommended reading the papers chronologically.

Monday, 11/06/2017

Reading:

matter_2016_2

kelemen_2011

Monday, 10/30/2017

Reading:

Biogeochemistry 2007 Kleber

Nature 2011 Schmidt

Monday, 10/22/2017

Reading Materials:

Tajika-and-Matsui-1992

SchubertTurcotteOlson2001_Chapter13

Supplementary Reading Materials:

Gerlach2011_EOS

LangmuirForsyth2007_MORs

Burton_RiMG075_Ch11

Wallace-2005

BurleyKatz2016

Lecture Notes:

ESCI555_LectureNotesHMG

Monday, 10/2/2017

Reading Materials:

1993Kasting_etal

England_Molnar_uplift_geol_90

2015Foley_ApJ_812_36

Lecture Slides:

CModPrimerA

Monday, 9/25/2017

Reading Materials:

Riebe_etal_2001

WalkerHaysKasting_1981

West – 2012

TorresClassNotes

Monday, 9/18/2017

Reading materials:

Marty and Tolstikhin_1998_Chemical Geology

PNAS-2015-Kelemen and Manning

Lecture Slides:

Earth’s deep carbon cycle intro + paper discuss_Dasgupta

Monday, 9/11/2017

General introduction to carbon cycling

Intro to carbon cycling

The Earth System_Chapter 8-Carbon

CycleBerner_nature, 2003