Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in bioengineering | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Substitute(s)
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
- Description of the mechanisms that explain the different climates on a global and regional scale,
- Characterisation of the major types of climate on Earth and their corresponding biomes,
- Description and analysis of the causes of past and present climate change.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Identify and understand the basic mechanisms responsibles of main climatic processes at local and global scales,
- Describe the main types of climates and the corresponding vegetation,
- Understand the causes of climate change and its impact on vegetal and human environment,
- Soft skills : be able to extract from an ensemble of scientific information (texts, tables, graphs) the relevant information allowing to answer to specific questions.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Environmental Physic course (Bloc 3)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Document reading and analysis
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Lecture 24h
Remotely if Code Orange or Red
Recommended or required readings
- Course slides
- Baldocchi, 2007, Bioclimatology, http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/espm129
- IPCC Reports, http://www.ipcc.ch/
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Additional information:
If Code Yellow: Oral examination
If Code Orange or Red: Individualized oral exam
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
LONGDOZ Bernard
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Axe Echanges Ecosystèmes Atmosphère
8, Avenue de la Faculté (Bât. 80)
5030 Gembloux
+32 81 622488
Bernard.Longdoz@ulg.ac.be