Snow, Glaciers, and Climate Change

Description from DukeHub

As the climate warms, rapid and dramatic changes are occurring to the cryosphere - melting glaciers and ice sheets, disappearing sea ice, thawing permafrost, and shrinking winter snowpacks. We will study these processes, their relationship with the earth and climate system, & how they are responding to climate change. Discuss the ways humans interact with the cryosphere, including the impact of climate change on communities and geo-engineering for mitigating cryospheric change. Grad students will lead weekly discussions & complete a more rigorous final project involving analysis of cryospheric data. This is a graduate level version of an undergraduate introductory course. Open to grads only.

Skills

• data and statisticsAI review: "analysis of cryospheric data"

AI-resilient: 0 of 5 0/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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