
Fluctuations of climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the last 400,000 years. (Image by Prof. Daniel Rothman.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Daniel Rothman
MIT Course Number
12.009J / 18.352J
As Taught In
Spring 2015
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course analyzes cooperative processes that shape the natural environment, now and in the geologic past. It emphasizes the development of theoretical models that relate the physical and biological worlds, the comparison of theory to observational data, and associated mathematical methods.