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Course Form I. Summary of Proposed Changes Dept / Program Climate Change Studies Course Title Climate Change Field Studies Short Title (max. 26 characters incl. spaces) Summarize the change(s) proposed Prefix and Course # CCS U 352 Climate Field Studies Change from two to three credits, and add course as an option for the Climate Change Studies Minor and Climate and Environmental Change track in Resource Conservation. II. Endorsement/Approvals Complete the form and obtain signatures before submitting to Faculty Senate Office Please type / print name Signature Requestor: Nicolette Phear Phone/ email : 243-6932/ [email protected] Program Chair/Director: Dr. Steve Running, Climate Change Studies Program Director Other affected programs Dr. Laurie Yung, Resource Conservation Program Dean: Dr. Michael Patterson, Associate Dean, College of Forestry and Conservation Date Yes No Yes No Yes No Are other departments/programs affected by this modification Please obtain signature(s) from the because of Chair/Director of any such department/ (a) required courses incl. prerequisites or corequisites, program (above) before submission (b) perceived overlap in content areas (c) cross-listing of coursework IV. To Delete or Change an Existing Course – check X all that apply Deletion Title Course Number Change From: Level U, UG, G From: Co-convened To: To: Description Change Change in Credits X From: To: 2 cr 3 cr Prerequisites 1. Current course information at it appears in catalog (http://www.umt.edu/catalog) U CCS 352 Climate Change Field Studies, 2 cr. Offered summer. This is an interdisciplinary field course focused on climate change impacts and adaptation. Through site visits and meetings with key decision-makers, students gain knowledge of projected impacts due to climate change (water availability, wildfire, beetle kill, biodiversity), the impacts to various sectors of human society (land management, food and water security, economic stability, and livelihoods), and different mitigation and adaptation Repeatability Cross Listing (primary program initiates form) Is there a fee associated with the course? 2. Full and exact entry (as proposed) U CCS 352 Climate Change Field Studies, 3 cr. Offered summer. This is an interdisciplinary field course focused on climate change impacts and adaptation. Through site visits and meetings with key decision-makers, students gain knowledge of projected impacts due to climate change (water availability, wildfire, beetle kill, biodiversity), the impacts to various sectors responses. of human society (land management, food and water security, economic stability, and livelihoods), and different mitigation and adaptation responses. 3. If cross-listed course: secondary program & course number 4. If co-convened course: companion course number, title, and description (include syllabus of companion course in section V) See procedure 301.20 http://umt.edu/facultysenate/committees/grad_council/procedures/default.aspx. 5. Is this a course with MUS Common Course Numbering? http://www.mus.edu/Qtools/CCN/ccn_default.asp If yes, please explain below whether this change will eliminate the course’s common course status. 6. Graduate increment if level of course is changed to UG. Reference procedure 301.30: http://umt.edu/facultysenate/committees/ grad_council/procedures/default.aspx (syllabus required in section V) 7. Other programs affected by the change YES NO X Have you reviewed the graduate increment guidelines? Please check (X) space provided. This course will serve as one of the course available to students who minor in Climate Change Studies, and also for students pursuing the Climate and Environmental Change track in Resource Conservation. There is no current field studies course focused specifically on climate change and natural resource management. 8. Justification for proposed change Course lengthened from 9.5 to 13 field days, added a field research project, and an additional post-field course meeting. Total contact hours include 35 hours of classroom contact (equiv. to 2.2 credits) and more than 31 hours of laboratory/field work (equivalent to 1 credit), for a justifiable 3.0 credit course. Due to the short and intensive nature of this field course, students complete coursework before and after the course as described in the syllabus. V. Syllabus/Assessment Information (must include learning outcomes) Required for new courses and course change from U to UG. Paste syllabus in field below or attach and send digital copy with form. Climate Change Field Studies A University of Montana Extended Studies Course Field course: August 11-23, 2013 Post-field course meetings: September 4, 9 &18, 2013 Course Title and Listing Climate Change Studies 352 (CCS 352): Climate Change Field Studies Credits: 3.0 Instructor Nicolette Phear, Climate Change Studies Program Coordinator and Instructor Email: [email protected] Phone: 243-6932 Office: CHCB 448 Course Description Climate Change Field Studies is an interdisciplinary field course focused on climate change impacts and adaptation in the Crown of the Continent. Through site visits and meetings with key decisionmakers, students gain knowledge of projected impacts to the region due to climate change (water availability, wildfire, beetle kill, biodiversity), the impacts to various sectors of human society (land management, economic stability, livelihoods), and different mitigation and adaptation responses. Through independent research, course weblogs, a group presentation, and synthesizing paper, student integrate their learning across disciplines and multiple perspectives as they evaluate the ecological, social, political, and economic factors influencing climate change impacts and responses. Learning Objectives Students participating in the field course will: Gain knowledge of climate change impacts, and specific strategies for mitigation and adaptation as they relate to management and conservation of natural resources. Learn the views, challenges, and priorities of public lands managers, private landowners, scientists, conservationists, and business leaders who are affected by and developing responses to climate change. Develop skills that integrate and synthesize ecological, social, political, and economic factors influencing climate change impacts and responses. Refine analytical skills through evaluation of regional and national responses to climate change. Practice written communication skills through weblog entries. Assessment Students will be evaluated on the following assignments and activities: 1. Academic Participation, 10%. Engagement with the course material, including active participation in class discussions, reference to readings, and engagement with course speakers and academic activities. 2. Weblog Entries, 25%. Write two, 500-600 word weblog entries on course events and learning. Focus either on a) the views, challenges, and priorities of a course speaker who is affected by and/or developing responses to climate change, or b) a field experience about a particular climate-related impact or response. These will be edited and posted on the Climate Change Studies website. 3. Research project, 25%: Students will design and carry out an independent research project that will involve a data collection day to collect biophysical and/or social data related to their question. Report due September 9. 4. Synthesis Essay, 25%. Write a five- to six-page synthesizing paper that evaluates the ecological, social, political, and/or economic factors influencing climate change impacts and responses. Due September 9. 5. Group Presentation, 15%. Students will prepare a 20-minute group presentation (September 18) regarding biophysical and social changes associated with climate change, what the challenges are, and potential response strategies. Pre and Post Coursework Assignments Due to the short and intensive nature of this field course, students are expected to complete coursework before and after the course as follows: Pre field course: Each student will complete a course reading packet (detailed below), due August 11. Post field course: Student will complete a write up of their research project and also their final synthesis essay. Students will also do a group presentation to the introductory Climate Change: Science and Society course on September 18, 2013. There will be three meetings after the field portion of this course ends, which includes this final presentation. Meeting days are scheduled for September 4, 9 & 18. Course Itinerary Missoula, Montana Sunday, August 11: 9:00 - 12:00 pm: Course introduction, overview of the Crown of the Continent and course objectives and assignments 2:00 – 5:00 pm: Student preparation for independent research project; students develop a research question and design methods for collecting data related to that question in the field Glacier National Park Climate change: biophysical impacts to mountain ecosystems, uncertainty, Park management responses, and citizen science. Readings #1-7 Monday, August 12: 8:45 am: Meet at the motor pool, drive to Glacier National Park, set up camp and eat lunch 1:00 - 3:00 pm: Climate change in the Crown of the Continent. 3:30 - 6:00 pm: Lecture/discussion North Fork of the Flathead and agreement to protect from coal development with Steve Thompson, Executive Director of Cinnabar Foundation 7:00 Dinner Camp in Apgar Campground Tuesday, August 13: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm: Tour of Glacier National Park high country: hike Siyeh Pass to Sunrift Gorge Loop visiting the Sexton Glacier with Glacier Institute geologist, Paul Rappaport. Topics: climate change over multiple time-scales (Pleistocene, Holocene, and Anthropocene); local expressions of recent climate change on the landscape, including glacial recession, elevation shifts in forest communities, and survival (or demise) of sub-alpine and alpine wildflowers. Camp in Apgar Campground Wednesday, August 14: 9:00 – 11:00 am: Meet U.S.G.S. Research Ecologist Dan Fagre at the Glacier Institute for lecture on climate change impacts to mountain ecosystem 11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Adaptive management for climate change with Tony Prato, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri Afternoon – data collection Camp in Apgar Campground Thursday, August 15: 9:00 am – 10:30 am: Climate change and wildlife impacts – discussion of citizen science with Nickolas Liu-Sontag, High Country Citizen Science Project Coordinator, Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center and training for afternoon monitoring project 11:00 am – 6:00 pm: Citizen Science monitoring: American pika and mountain goat Camp in Apgar Campground Swan Valley, Northwest Connections Climate change and forest communities: forest change from wildfire, insects and disease; community conservation and livelihood responses; and the views/concerns of some skeptics. Readings #8-14. Friday, August 16: 9:00 am: Drive to Northwest Connections in the Swan Valley (1¾ hour drive), stop in Big Fork for food shopping, arrive around noon. 1:00 – 3:00 pm: Lecture by Melanie Parker, co-founding Director of Northwest Connections. Discuss opportunities for large landscape conservation as a response to climate change. 3:00 – 6:00 pm: Walk through local forest; discuss fire ecology and management in the wildland urban interface. Stay at Northwest Connections Saturday, August 17: 9:00 – 11:00 am: Lecture on whitebark pine ecology, disturbance from blister rust and mountain pine beetles 12:00 – 6:00 pm: Field afternoon, Northwest Connection’s long-term monitoring project. Led by Adam Lieberg and Dave Morris with Northwest Connections. Stay at Northwest Connections Sunday, August 18: 9:00 – 11:00 am: Lecture presentation on wetland restoration and carbon banking by Andrea Stevens. 12:00 – 5:00 pm: Field afternoon, visit area wetlands to learn about locally endemic plants affected by climate change. 7:00 – 8:30 pm: Evening discussion with local community members about perspectives on climate change. Stay at Northwest Connections Blackfoot Valley Mitigation and adaptation responses: local and national mitigation policy and politics; regional adaptive capacity—finding opportunities for biomass utilization, reducing non-climate stressors, forest restoration and monitoring, and successes in community-based conservation. Readings #15-18. Monday, August 19: 10:00 am: Drive to Pyramid Lumber in Seeley Lake 11:00 -12:00 pm: meeting with Resource Manager, Gordy Sanders; discuss pros and cons of biomass as a potential fuel source and ways it can be used sustainably 1:00 pm: Lumber mill tour. 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Meeting with Time Love, Forest Service District Ranger for Seeley Lake; discuss forest change and management response strategies. Evening discussion of climate change adaptation vs mitigation. Camp at Big Larch Campground. Tuesday, August 20: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Meeting at Chamber of Commerce with Megan Birzell, Forest Restoration Associate with The Wilderness Society, to talk about the Southwest Crown of the Continent Collaborative. 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Participate in a citizen science monitoring project evaluating ecological change (fuels and invasive plants) associated with a changing climate at Horseshoe Hills, between Salmon and Seeley Lakes. Camp at Big Larch Campground. Prepare for data collection day. Wednesday, August 21: Field day – data collection Camp at Big Larch Campground. Debrief data collection day. Thursday, August 22: :9:00-11:00 am: Meeting with representatives from the Blackfoot Challenge at the fire hall to learn about the community-based collaborative, associated successes in land conservation and stewardship, and their drought management planning. 11:00 – 1:00 pm: Stream restoration tour 2:30 – 4:00 pm: Visit with David Mannix, long-term rancher in Helmville; discuss ranch life, ways in which ranching is climate-sensitive, and challenges and opportunities this presents to ranchers. Camp at Lubrecht Experimental Forest Friday, August 23: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm: Course synthesizing discussion, students discuss research results and outline papers, return to Missoula by 4:00 pm. Post field follow up: September 4, 6:00 – 8:00 pm: Final synthesizing paper and research report due; group presentation planning September 9, 6:00 – 8:00 pm: Planning for final presentation September 18, 3:40-5:00 pm: Final group presentation to CCS 203 class Totals for Change Studies 352 (CCS 352): Climate Change Field Studies Total classroom contact: Total laboratory work: Travel time not included. 35 hours 31+ hours TOTAL (equiv. to 2.2 credits) (equiv. to 1 credits) 3.0 credits Course Readings 1. Crown of the Continent Conservation Initiative (2010). A climate-impacts assessment of the Crown of the Continent. pp. 1-25. 2. Stephanson, Nathan, Constance Millar, & David Cole (2010). “Shifting environmental foundations: The unprecedented and unpredictable future.” In Cole, David & Laurie Yung (Eds) (2010). Beyond Naturalness: Rethinking Park and Wilderness Stewardship in an Era of Rapid Change (pp.56-64). Washington D.C.: Island Press. 3. Repanshek, Kurt (2010). Climate change continues to melt Glacier National Park’s Icons. National Parks Travelers. Retrieved from: http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2010/04/ climate-change-continues-melt-glacier-national-parks-icons5669 4. Saunders, Stephen. & Tom Easley (2010). Glacier National Park in peril: The threats of climate disruption. A profile by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Executive summary, pp 4-5. 5. Lenz, Garth (2011). Agreement to protect North Fork of Flathead from goal, coal mining finalized. Missoulian, February 15. 6. National Wildlife Federation. Global warming and the American pika. Retrieved from: http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/Effects-on-Wildlife-and-Habitat/Pika.aspx 7. Woody, Todd (2010). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says pika not imperiled by climate change. The New York Times, February 8. 8. Running, Steve (2006). Is global warming causing more, larger wildfires? Science, Vol. 313: 927-928. 9. Rasker, Ray (2010). Curbing wildfire costs. Headwaters News, January 6. 10. Robbins, Jim (2010). What’s killing the great forests of the American west? Yale environment360, March 10. 11. Northwest Connections. Whitebark Pine. Retrieved from: http://www.northwestconnections.org/whitebarkpine.html 12. Bookwalter, Mo (2010). Emerging markets in biomass: Local opportunities. Seeley Swan Pathfinder, May 27. 13. Millar, C.I, N.L. Stephenson, and S. L. Stephens (2007). Climate change and forests of the future: Managing in the face of uncertainty. Ecological Applications 17(8):2145–2151. 14. Johnson, Brad (2011). Exclusive: Wonk room interviews Montana Legislator who introduced bill to declare global warming ‘Natural.’ Think Progress, February 17, retrieved from: http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/02/17/174917/montana-climate-zombie/ 15. Carter, Rebecca & Culp, Susan (2010). “Barriers to Implementing Local Climate Change Policies.” In Planning for Climate Change in the West. Policy Focus Report by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (pp. 34-39). Cambridge, MA. 16. Wall, Ellen & Marzall, K. (2006). Adaptive capacity for climate change in Canadian rural communities. Local Environment: 11(4), pp. 373-397. 17. Volz, Matt (2010). Western Montana, Idaho forest restoration projects get federal funds. Missoulian, August 14. 18. SW Crown Collaborative (2011). Forest funding advances Montana forest restoration work. Press release. VI Department Summary (Required if several forms are submitted) In a separate document list course number, title, and proposed change for all proposals.