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Global Climate Change in Your Backyard - CANCELED The planet is warming fast with consequences to ecosystems, and human infrastructure, and economy. Who is responsible? What are the consequences for us here in Colorado? In this community course we will address the earth's energy balance, transfer and distribution of heat on the planet, the carbon cycle, local and global biosphere-atmosphere-climate feedbacks, and the impact of these on ecosystem services we rely on. This unique course will be taught through a series of short lectures, discussions, and hands-on exercises at the treeline of Pikes Peak, where the course instructor Miro Kummel researches the impacts of climate change on treeline movement and functioning of local ecosystems. | |
Miroslav "Miro" Kummel is a mutualisms ecologist interested in processes that structure communities of mycorrhizaf fungi. Miro received his bachelor's in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University, where he studied the community ecology of phytoplankton. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, where he studied partner selection in ectomycorrhizal mutualisms. | |
