| LEC # | TOPICS | LECTURERS | STUDENT NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Overview of course; time scales; formation of matter by nucleosynthesis; introduction to geological (PDF - 6.1 MB) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 2 | How stars and planets form; Earth segregation; formation and composition of early atmosphere; characteristics of the habitable zone (PDF - 4.3 MB) | Richard Binzel | (PDF) |
| 3 | Theories about the origin of life (PDF - 1.4 MB) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 4 | Evidence for antiquity of life (PDF - 1.4 MB) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 5 | Antiquity and origin of life (cont.) Subsurface biosphere (PDF - 6.5 MB) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 6 | Redox chemistry; anaerobic metabolism, energy yields, deep subsurface biosphere (PDF) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 7 | Oxygenic photosynthesis; the rise of atmospheric O2 (PDF - 6.8 MB) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 8 | Techniques in geobiology 1: Fractionated isotopes (PDF) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 9 | Techniques in geobiology 2: More about fractionated isotopes (PDF) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 10 | Biogeochemical carbon cycle (PDF - 1.7 MB) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 11 | Long-term climate cycles 1: Faint young sun paradox; CO2 climate connection; snowball earth (PDF - 1.9 MB) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 12 | Evolution and radiation of animals (and plants???) | Charles Marshall | (PDF) |
| 13 | Mass extinctions and re-radiation 1; PC-C boundary, P-T boundary (PDF - 2.5 MB) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 14 | Mass extinctions and re-radiation 2; K-T boundary, LPTM Volcanism, carbon cycle perturbation or impact? (PDF - 6.2 MB) | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 15 | Techniques in geobiology 3 Genomics DNA, sequencing, trees, environmental shotguns | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 16 | Techniques in geobiology 4 Lipid biomarkers; life's three domains; fossil and biogeochemical evidence for their presence and evolution through geological time | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 17 | Sedimentary records of life and environment; fossils and their preservation | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 18 | Sedimentary records of microbes and their environmental preferences; marine crenarchaeota and tex 86; AOM; anammox | D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard | (PDF) |
| 19 | Microbially-dominated ecosystems: Extreme environments | D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard | (PDF) |
| 20 | Fossil fuels: Fate of buried organic carbon; petroleum and natural gas occurrence and distribution (PDF - 3.7 MB) Methane hydrates | Roger Summons | (PDF) |
| 21 | Climate change: Mesozoic warming, cenozoic cooling; pleistocene glaciations (PDF - 5.5 MB) | Ed Boyle | (PDF) |
| 22 | Holocene climate; abrupt climate change; anthropogenic forcing (PDF - 4.7 MB) | Ed Boyle | (PDF) |
| 23-24 | Student presentations |