ENVS100:
Intro. to Environmental Sciences
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Instructor:
Gidon Eshel
Division of Science, Mathematics and Computing
Bard College of
Simon's Rock
84 Alford Road
Great Barrington,
MA
01230
Tel: (413) 528-7299
Email:
geshel@simons-rock.edu,
geshel@gmail.com
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Syllabus (with some
logistics, contact info., office hours and other salient practical
stuff)
- Projected in-class files:
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Reading, 1st Batch:
- e-reserves (yes, they are in; read "Batch 1" please )
- from The Human Impact, chapters 1, 2 and 5
- from The Nature of the Environment, chapters 2 and 13
- Homework, 1st week (due in my office
on Tuesday, Sept. 4th): pick one of the topics I covered in week 1
that you are most interested in (feel free to consult the projected
file). Now look around campus, anywhere you find interesting. Then
write a one-half to one (at most) page summary of local (i.e.,
on-campus) applications or manifestations of the global issues we
discussed in class to the SRC campus
- Homework, 2nd week (due in my office
on Tuesday, Sept. 11th): examine the graphs I posted in the Lab.1
webpage, and wirite your take on them: what are the manin features the
graphs show, and what is your interpretation(s) of those features
(i.e., try to advance a physical theory for those features).
- Lab. 1
- Reading, next batch: please note the
e-reserves have (or will have very sooon) another batch. Tomorrow
(Wednesday, 9/19/07) in class we will discuss, from this new batch,
Rethinking Rail Travel,
About a Bird, The (Agri)Cultural Contradictions of
Obesity, Trade Group to Cut Farm Subsidies for Rich
Nations, and A Wetland Dying of Thirst. Please all of
you be prepared to make sagacious and erudite comments about the
reading material...
- Homework 3
- Midterm Project
- Classes of October 17th and 22nd, 2007:
we'll discuss the hydrological cycle. Please read chapter 14
(pp. 427-455) of The Nature of the Environment and chapter 5
(pp. 203-260) of The Human Impact on the Natural Environment.
- Homework 4
- Steve Wofsy's Science paper