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Team Ecology Biogeochemical cycling: Global water cycle Kasey Barton Carolyn Bergstrom

Team Ecology Biogeochemical cycling: Global water cycle Kasey Barton Carolyn Bergstrom Fenny Cox Don Drake Oceana Francis David Tallmon Chris Tubbs. Biogeochemical cycling: Global water cycle. Goals: For students to understand the water cycle, including:

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Team Ecology Biogeochemical cycling: Global water cycle Kasey Barton Carolyn Bergstrom

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  1. Team Ecology Biogeochemical cycling: Global water cycle Kasey Barton Carolyn Bergstrom Fenny Cox Don Drake Oceana Francis David Tallmon Chris Tubbs

  2. Biogeochemical cycling: Global water cycle Goals: For students to understand the water cycle, including: 1. Understand relative sizes of pools and fluxes of H20 cycle. 2. Understand how human activities affect pools and fluxes of H20 cycle. 3. Appreciate ethical consequences of human effects on H2O cycle.

  3. Biogeochemical cycling: Global water cycle Outcomes: 1. Predict how several human activities will alter the H20 cycle (qualitative/quantitative). 2. Assess the global ethical implications of human impacts on H20 cycle.

  4. Global water cycle pools = 1000’s km3, fluxes 1000’s km3/yr

  5. Rain falling on a tropical rain forest can be lost via three paths: 1. evaporation 2. transpiration (water from soil → atmosphere via plants) 3. runoff & groundwater Rank the paths in order of magnitude from greatest → least amount of water lost. A. 1 > 2 > 3 B. 1 > 3 > 2 C. 2 > 3 > 1 D. 2 > 1 > 3 E. 3 > 2 > 1 Figure not to scale http://guernseysoil.blogspot.com/2012/07/your-backyard-woods-water-cycle.html

  6. Rain falling on a tropical rain forest can be lost via three paths: 1. evaporation 2. transpiration (water from soil → atmosphere via plants) 3. runoff & groundwater Rank the paths in order of magnitude from greatest → least amount of water lost. C. 2 > 3 > 1 48% transpiration 36% runoff & groundwater 16% evaporation Globally, 2/3 of water flux from land → atmosphere is via transpiration. http://guernseysoil.blogspot.com/2012/07/your-backyard-woods-water-cycle.html

  7. Global water cycle pools = 1000’s km3, fluxes 1000’s km3/yr

  8. What human activities might affect the water cycle?

  9. With your group, discuss the main effects that either deforestation or global warming will have on the global water cycle. Include changes in fluxes and pools. ‘Modify’ your large handout template with colored post-its: blue for increase, red for decrease. Tape your template to wall. - +

  10. Global water cycle pools = 1000’s km3, fluxes 1000’s km3/yr

  11. Summative assessment: take-home exam • What could we do to make this scenario more realistic? • What is the scale of deforestation? • What is the scale of global warming? • Model how these two activities simultaneously affect the water cycle • What are the ethical implications of human effects on the water cycle? Where do these activities occur, and who is affected?

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