Calendar Fall 2004

This course presents an overview of the problems we are currently facing in regard to the environment, what we can do to solve those problems, and other opportunities that our environment can give us. Pros and cons are debated. Laboratory exercises make use of data available on the Internet. A Field trip is to the AMNH.

SATURDAY
8/28	Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability	Morning	Afternoon
Labor Day	no classes
9/11	Science, Matter, Energy, and Ecosystems: Connections in Nature	Morning	Afternoon
9/18	Evolution, Terrestrial and Aquatic Life, and Population Dynamics	Morning	Afternoon
Yom Kippur	no classes
10/02	Species Interactions, Succession, and Sustainability	Morning	Afternoon
10/09	The Human Population: Size and Distribution	Morning	Afternoon
10/16	Energy	Morning	Afternoon
10/23	Sustaining Terrestrial & Aquatic Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach	Morning	Afternoon
10/30	Sustaining Biodiversity:	FIELD TRIP	AMNH
11/6	The Species Approach	Morning	Afternoon
11/13	Biodiversity: Sustaining Soils and Producing Food	Morning	Afternoon
11/20	Risk, Toxicology, and Human Health Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Air Pollution	Morning	Afternoon
Thanksgiving	no classes
12/4	Water Resources and Water Pollution	Morning	Afternoon
12/11	Solid and Hazardous Waste Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews
12/18	Final Examinations

			SATURDAY MORNING 9:20 - 12:15
1581	9S3A	ENSCI 111	INTRO TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE	RANCE	SB D135
			SATURDAY AFTERNOON 1:00 - 3:55
1581	9S3A	ENSCI 111	INTRO TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE	RANCE	SB D235