ENVS 80B
Fall 2009: The Ecological Forecast for Global Warming
Michael E. Loik
Dept. Environmental Studies
University of California,
(831) 459-5785
mloik(at)ucsc(dot)edu
Announcement: Lecture this week (Nov. 17)
is moved up by one day from Nov. 19 to Nov. 17.
October 13 here.
October 27 here.
November 3 here.
Syllabus
The Fall 2009 course syllabus is here.
Assignments
Assignment 1 is here.
Assignment 2 is here.
Lectures
Lecture 1,
September 24 Course Intro
Lecture 2, September 29 Climate
Lecture 3, October 1 Weather
Lecture 4, October 6 Greenhouse Gases
Lecture 5, October 8 Land Use and Land Use Change (REDD Document)
Lecture 6, October 13 Andean Glacier Recession
Lecture 7, October 15 Signs of Climate Change
Lecture 8, October 20 Carbon Cycling
Lecture 9, October 22 Extreme Events
Lecture 10, October
27 Biological Resources
Midterm, October 29
Lecture 11,
November 3 Freshwater Resources
Lecture 12,
November 5 Rising Sea Levels
Lecture 13, November
10 What is UCSC Doing to Reduce Our
Carbon Footprint? (Guest Lecture: Patrick Testoni)
Lecture 14,
November 12, Carbon-Based Industry
& Society (Midterms returned, went over Answer Key)
Animations
H1N1 Influenza Notice
The campus webpage for updates on H1N1 is http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/flu/article.asp?pid=2893.
Please follow these guidelines:
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Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough
or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
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Wash your hands often with soap and warm water for at
least 20 seconds, especially after you cough or sneeze. (As water restrictions
<http://messages.ucsc.edu/text.asp?pid=2906>
are in effect in
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Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
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If you get sick with flu, it is recommended that you
stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from
infecting them. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
Plagiarism
From NetTrail (http://nettrail.ucsc.edu/ethics/plagiarism.html)...
Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of someone else as your own without proper acknowledgment of the source. If you don't credit the author, you are committing a type of theft called plagiarism. In fact the word plagiarism comes from the Latin term for kidnapping.
When you work on a research paper you will probably find supporting material for your paper from works by others. It's okay to use the ideas of other people, but you do need to correctly credit them.
When you quote people - or even when you summarize or paraphrase information found in books, articles, or Web pages - you must acknowledge the original author. It is plagiarism when you:
Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism:
Links
NASA Eyes on Planet Earth
Union
of Concerned Scientists California Legislative Updates page
National Snow and Ice Data Center
United
States Global Change Research Program
World Climate
National
Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
Climate-Zone
California Climate Data Archive