Syllabus  pdf version

Scientific Paper Summary  or II
Schedule  (includes weekly reading, labs, and homework) Writing a good answer
Course Learning Objectives Primary Text
Water Quality Project Graphing
Design a solar collector Articles/papers
Online quizzes   Blackboard Web resources
Video Summary  Short Summary Student Resources at Clark
YouTube Video Submission Emergency Plan

Tentative Schedule  (this schedule is for week 5 and provides only a sketch of weeks 6-10.  The links to weeks 1 and 4 are also active at present in case you want to look back.  The schedule will be updated each week to highlight the current week's activities.) 

Week 1    Getting started with the class and introduction to Earth System Science

Week 2  Working with systems. 

Week 3  Climate I

Week4 ClimateII

********************Start Week 5**********************************************************

Public Policy Issues.

Public Lecture "Our Energy Challenge"  present by Richard Smalley  Slides.pdf   from the Aspen Global Change Institute Library  under presentations/Public Lectures.  Write a video summary for this (see video summary guidelines)

Reading (Primary Text): Global Environmental Issues: Climate Change. 9.Climate Change Policy Issues.  This week's discussion question is related to this reading.

Video/Reading Assignment.  Watch Annie Leonard's Cap and Trade video at http://www.storyofstuff.com/      Reading Assignment:  "Annie Leonard misses the mark in her new video, The Story of Cap-and-Trade "   http://www.terrapass.com/blog/posts/the-facts-of-cap-and-trade   Watch the video produced by the environmental defense fund.   http://www.terrapass.com/blog/posts/the-facts-of-cap-and-trade Write a short summary discussing what you think about cap and trade based on the information presented (2-videos and 1 reading) (see short summary guidelines).   In your summary answer these questions.  If you were a US senator would you vote for or against cap and trade legislation?  Why?  You may also want to search the internet for other opinions

No online quiz this week J

Optional, extra credit or ???   Watch any other video or videos at at http://www.storyofstuff.com/  and do a video summary (either short or more formal).

Work on other assignments. (water quality term project, solar water heater, summaries)

July 31 Field Lab with Judy Bufford (see blackboard tab "July 31") for lab write-up.  See you at 8AM.

******************** End Week 5**********************************************************

Week 6  Water Issues.  Reading (Primary Text):   1. Land Degradation and Arid Regions 2. Desertification in the Sahel 3.Aeolian Transport of Sand and Dust 4. The Dust Bowl and Aftermath 5.Dustiest Places on Earth–Dead and Dying Seas

Week 7  The Atmosphere and the environment:  Reading (Primary Text): Air Pollution and Ozone Depletion 1. Atmospheric Structure and Pollution Sources 2. Atmospheric pollutants 3. Stratospheric Ozone and the Ozone Hole 4. Acid Rain and Acidic Deposition
 

Week 8 Coastal issues

Week 9  Understanding ice ages and current ice sheet changes

Week 10  catch-up/wrap-up

 

Saturday August 28  Term Project Presentations and extra credit presentations

 

Syllabus

 
Schedule  (includes weekly reading, labs, and homework) Writing a good answer
Course Learning Objectives Primary Text
Water Quality Project Graphing
Design a solar collector Articles/papers
Online quizzes Web resources
Video Summary Student Resources at Clark
YouTube Video Submission Emergency Plan