ENVS 80B
Fall 2009: The Ecological Forecast for Global Warming

Michael E. Loik
Dept. Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
(831) 459-5785
mloik(at)ucsc(dot)edu

 

 

Thanks for a great quarter!

 

 

Final exams and other materials can be obtained during Office Hours in Winter Quarter 2010 (Times TBA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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:

·      Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.

·      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 Santa Cruz, please turn the water off between wetting your hands and rinsing them.) Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.

·      Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

·      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:

  1. Buy or use a term paper written by someone else;
  2. Cut and paste passages from the Web, a book, or an article and insert them into your paper without citing them. Warning! It is now easy to search and find passages that have been copied from the Web;
  3. Use the words or ideas of another person without citing them;
  4. Paraphrase that person's words without citing them;


Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism:

  1. First, use your own ideas - it should be your paper and your ideas that are be the focus
  2. Use the ideas of others sparingly - only to support or reinforce your own argument
  3. When taking notes, include complete citation information for each item you use
  4. Use quotation marks when directly stating another person's words

 



Links

NASA Eyes on Planet Earth

Union of Concerned Scientists California Legislative Updates page

National Snow and Ice Data Center

The Weather Channel

San Francisco Office of the National Weather Service

Western Regional Climate Center

PrecipNet

United States Global Change Research Program

National Climate Data Center

Environmental Protection Agency's Global Warming page

AccuWeather

World Climate

National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center

Climate-Zone

California Climate Data Archive