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Course Descriptions
SIO295S/295LS (16 units Summer Only)
Introduction to Marine Biodiversity and Conservation: Global Change, Marine Ecosystems and Society
Taught since 2004, this course serves as a forum to introduce students to the broad range of issues addressed in the program and to draw students into working collaboratively with each other, their faculty sponsors, and with MAS students. This course includes 1) treatment of the physical sciences relevant to global change; 2) global change issues in the social sciences and ethics; and 3) sections on negotiation, decision making, and law. Key elements of this course will be made available to students in the SEA STARS (summer diversity program). The class meets daily from 9a.m. to 5:00 p.m and may include two Saturdays. In general lectures are in the mornings and labs and field trips in the afternoon. The course outline is a follows:
 Week 1 Recent and past marine biodiversity
Week 2 Physical oceanography & climate
Week 3 Ocean chemistry & paleoceanography
Week 4 Ecology & ecosystem science
Week 5 Economics I (trust & markets)
Week 6 Economics II (global change, fisheries)
Week 7 Resource law, international law
Week 8 Governance, decisions, policy & ethics
Week 9 Communications and media
Week 1010 Synthesis and student projects
SIO296/MBC296
PHD/MAS Forum (1 unit)
 (Norris and rotating faculty)
This course is a bi-weekly, 2-hour student-led Lab Meeting that will permit students to regularly interact with each other, discuss their research plans and outcomes, read, discuss, and present position papers and research literature, as well as plan and discuss the results of internships, group interdisciplinary projects and international research programs. This course is, above all, intended to foster a sense of community among the students, help develop collaborations between students in different fields, and provide regular feedback to faculty on what is working or not working in the project. This course is offered every quarter for Interdisciplinary PhDs and in the fall only for MAS.
ECON181/231 Natural Resource Economics (Groves/Watson) Fall quarter each year
This course introduces students to standard economic principles and models for understanding and analyzing human uses of both exhaustible and renewable natural resources. The standard paradigm of markets and private incentives is developed and its limitations examined. Particular emphasis is devoted to problems arising from common property resources, including such global commons as the high seas and the atmosphere. The difficulties of designing efficient economic policies for the extremely long term (viz. climate change) and in the presence of large uncertainties are also discussed. Regulations, including innovative cap and trade markets and externality taxes (e.g. carbon tax ) are examined. Game theory models of negotiation and bargaining are developed and used to explore international environmental agreements to govern and manage global common resources. Three motivating applications relevant to this IGERT program are carried throughout the course the economics of climate change, fisheries management, and the conservation of endangered marine species.
SIO286 Marine Science, Law and Economics
This course is offered with various subtitles - three are required by CMBC PhD Students and two by MAS students
Science, Conflict and Policy (Oreskes). Every other year -fall. This new lecture and seminar
course will be taught in alternate years and will be required of all
IGERT students before they qualify for candidacy. The course will
address the social, cultural, and political challenges to turning
scientific knowledge into effective policy action. Scientists generally
presume that the solution to environmental problems is to get the
science right. Yet experience shows that even when pertinent science is
well established, there are many obstacles to its uptake and
implementation. Science can also be used as a tool to extend political
controversy and conflict and delay policy action. This course will
examine the recent history of science in the context of social policy,
with an emphasis on understanding and comparing the conditions under
which scientific knowledge has formed an effective basis for policy in
the 20th century with those under which it has not. Topics will include
the origins of science advising in the U.S. federal government;
contrasts between the U.S. and other national and international
contexts; the role of the media in stoking conflict; specific case
studies such as DDT, fisheries, and climate change; and recent
theoretical work on science and the state. Guest lecturers will include
journalists and former science advisors in the UCSD community.
Marine Environmental Law (Mengerink). Every other year - spring. This course will alternate with
Science, Conflict and Policy and will address domestic and
international laws and policies covering a range of topics including
fisheries management, coastal development, land-based sources of marine
pollution, marine protected areas, and resource extraction. It will
include review of laws including the Coastal Zone Management Act,
National Marine Sanctuaries Act, the Law of the Sea, the London Dumping
Convention, and multilateral fisheries conventions, among others.
Coastal Wetland Ecology, Conservation and Management (Levin). Every other year - winter
This course will cover (1) the basic science of coastal wetlands (from biogeochemistry to birds), emphasizing functions essential to healthy systems, (2) the conservation issues facing coastal wetlands, and (3) the management challenges faced in merging science and policy. Topics will include species invasion, climate change, endangered species, restoration, natural catastrophe, and urban influence. The course will be discussion-oriented, with a combination of instructor lectures, guest speakers, student discussions and assigned readings. Some local field trips will be interspersed with lectures. Students will work in groups to explore case studies. These will be presented orally and in written form.
PROPOSED SIO209 (Spring 2 units) Seminar on Global Change, Marine Ecosystems, and Conservation Policy (Rotating faculty).
This annual course will modify and broaden an existing student-led SIO seminar: Environmental Sustainability and Policy (ESP) Climate Change Forum . The current ESP Climate Change Forum addresses social science and natural science issues surrounding aspects of climate change. Making this a formal part of the IGERT curriculum will insure that all IGERT students come together at least once a year in a seminar devoted to exploring one of the IGERT issues (ocean acidification, climate change, sea level rise, global commons and resistance) from physical, biological, political, legal, historical and economic science perspectives. In addition to the current oral presentations, students will prepare written reports and web presentations that will serve as resources for students who arrive in later years.
PROPOSED Communicating Broadly (Jackson, Peach, Sharon Franks-SIO).
This course will build upon the success of the 1-week communications section of the summer course to train students to communicate fluently in traditional and non-traditional venues and media. In essence, to both read and write more effectively in the unique languages of professional and public speaking, news media, web sites, blogs, and film. The course will consist of lectures, interactive training in public speaking and interviews, and production of specific projects including op-eds, web sites, blogs, and public service films (PSAs), and minidocumentaries. Course materials will be fully documented on a dedicated website, and the course will be professionally evaluated. We plan to work with the NSF IGERT Program Directors and colleagues at other institutions to disseminate this course.
PROPOSED Interdisciplinary Research Project Design
This course, taught by faculty from UCSD’s Rady School of Management and SIO, is intended to give students the leadership and management ability to run research programs in modern academic research programs, non-governmental organizations, and business. The class addresses essential business skills needed to implement solutions to global change and discusses the design of interdisciplinary research programs, roles of team members, team building strategies, leadership, negotiation skills, risk management, research ethics, project budgeting, fund-raising, and communication strategies. Discussions will include case studies related to the global change theme, and the execution of research projects designed by the students. The course is intended to expose students to the business approach to the opportunities presented by global change that are rarely, if ever, discussed in most academic research programs.
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