Macrosystems EDDIE Module 4: Macro-Scale Feedbacks

Environmental phenomena are often driven by multiple factors that
interact across space and over time. In freshwater lakes and
reservoirs worldwide, carbon cycling and subsequent carbon dioxide
(CO2) and methane (CH4) fluxes are changing due to local, regional,
and continental drivers. In this module, students will learn how to
set up a lake model and "force" the model with climate
scenarios to test hypotheses about how local and global drivers will
interact to promote or suppress greenhouse gas fluxes in different
lakes. The overarching goal of this module is for students to explore
new modeling and computing tools while learning fundamental concepts
about how non-linear macrosystem-level phenomena (e.g., lake
greenhouse gas fluxes) can occur through macro-scale feedbacks. The
A-B-C structure of this module makes it flexible and adaptable to a
range of student levels and course structures. This dataset contains instructional materials and the files necessary
to run the complete module. Readers are referred to the GLM science
manual (Hipsey et al. 2014; 2019) for further details on model
configuration.