Lecture schedule

Week	Date	Day	Lecture Topic	Reading Presentation / Activity Pairs	Guest Lecturer	REFERENCE readings for lecture topic
1	29 Sept	Mon	Introductions, course overview, Science as a way of knowing - Readings discussion	Mark C	N/A	Lubchenco 1998 Science Cvitanovic and Hobday 2018 Nat Comm
	1 Oct	Wed	The coastal environment - Atmospheric processes		Nate Mantua NOAA -NMFS Santa Cruz Lab
2	6 Oct	Mon	The coastal environment - Oceanographic processes		Raphe Kudela UCSC - Ocean Sciences	Mills et al 2013 Pershing et al 2015
	8 Oct	Wed	The coastal environment - Hydrological and geological processes		Gary Griggs UCSC - Earth and Planetary Science	Craig et al 2017 Dudgeon 2019
3	13 Oct	Mon	The coastal environment - Biogeochemical processes		Adina Paytan UCSC - Earth and Planetary Science	Vitousek et al 1997 Howarth 2008
	15 Oct	Wed	What is climate change?		Kristy Kroeker UCSC - EEB	Pacifici et al 2015 Poloczankka et al 2013
4	20 Oct	Mon	Diversity of life - evolutionary processes		2 Student paper discussions	Palkovacs et al 2018 Carroll et al 2014
	22 Oct	Wed	Population ecology		Don Croll UCSC - EEB	Pearson et al 2014 Akcakaya and Sjogren-Gulve 2000
5	27 Oct	Mon	Metapopulations, metacommunities, and connectivity		2 Student paper discussions	Lunberg and Moberg 2003 Leibold et al 2004
	29 Oct	Wed	Ecological communities - species interactions		Eric Palkovacs UCSC - EEB	McCann et al 2000 Daszak et al 2000
6	3 Nov	Mon	Ecological communities - stability		2 Student paper discussions
	5 Nov	Wed	Ecological communities - maintenance of diversity		Erika Zavaleta UCSC - EEB	Balvanera et al 2000 O'Leary et al 2017
7	10 Nov	Mon	Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning		Kendra Karr UCSC - CSP
	12 Nov	Wed	Ecosystems - abiotic-biotic coupled systems and connectivity		Marm Kilpatrick UCSC - EEB	Loreau et al 2001
8	17 Nov	Mon	Ecosystem services		Jade Delevaux Natural Capital Project	Mumby, P. J. et al. 2004 Schindler et al 2003
	19 Nov	Wed	Ecosystems - social-ecological coupled systems and EBM		Malin Pinsky UCSC - EEB	Costanza et al 1997 Daily et al 2009
9	24 Nov	Mon	Human uses and impacts to ecosystems		Michael Beck UCSC - Center for Coastal Climate Resilience	Wasson et al 2015 Binder et al 2013
	26 Nov	Wed	Travel for T-Day and Native American Heritage Day		N/A
10	1 Dec	Mon	Remote sensing for conservation and management		Bo Yang UCSC - Earth and Planetary Sciences
	3 Dec	Wed	Bibliography, discussion, wrap up, and reflections on the course		N/A
11 Finals Week	8 Dec	Mon	Possible continued discussion from previous class		N/A
	10 Dec	Wed