Climate history and paleoclimatology explores how the major features of the earth's climate system have varied in the past, and the driving forces and feedbacks for these changes. The major topics include the earth's CO2 concentration and mean temperature, the size and stability of ice sheets and sea level, the amount and distribution of precipitation, and the ocean heat transport.

Provides a basic introduction into Earth Sciences, emphasizing different rock-types and the geological rock-cycle, as well as introduction into geophysics, plate tectonics and planetology.

The potential for changes in the modern ocean thermohaline circulation remains a major uncertainty in projections of future anthropogenic climate impacts. In this reading course, we examine the paleoclimate evidence for past changes in AMOC and other significant ocean circulation systems, the triggers and the feedbacks on circulation change, on timescales from centuries to millions of years.