FOR 110: Seminar on Contemporary Issues in Forests & the Environment

Credits: 1

About FOR 110

Learn about the amazing ways that forests promote global environmental quality and human well-being. Topics include the role of forests in: mitigating climate change, creating rainfall, promoting human psychological health, and providing the materials for carbon-storing wooden skyscrapers. We also will introduce how humans interact with forests and how these ecosystems and their benefits are threatened by climate change, mega-wildfires, and invasive species.

A sample week in FOR 110

Week 6 – Regulating Services - Climate Regulation and Carbon

Module 6 Introduction
Watch a video on a Smithsonian Institution project
Read a report
Watch a video produced by The Economist magazine
Read a short news article from Science
Week 6 Quiz
Watch Rich Kobe's presentation on regulating ecosystem services: climate and carbon (26 minute lecture)
Complete an exercise on calculating carbon storage & sequestration
Participate in discussion forum