ENVS 202 On-line Access Winter 1999

Quantitative Methods and Environmental Problems

Important Announcements:

• The final had an average of 290 with a dispersion of 40.
• An example of a pretty good exam

Administrative stuff:

• Who are you guys?
• Course Overview
• CoursePacket
• Why go to discussion sections?

Tools:

Statistical Graphical Tool
• Table of Probabilities

Current Events in the News:

• Electric Hybrid Cars: BS or not?
• Airplane De-Icing Facilities are Toxic
• Low pollution Cars
• China's Three Gorge Damn Project
• Coos Bay Oil Spill
  • Let's Blow it Up
  • Special Report on New Carissa
  • Successful Ignition

Internet Resources For This Class

• Databases and Resource Lists:
  • Statistical Abstract of the United States 1996 (PDF format)
  • EnviroLink Library
  • The Solstice Page
  • Solar Radiation Data Base

• Salmon Controversy:
  • The Great Salmon Hoax
  • Salmon and Climate Cycles

• Global Warming Issues:
  • Global Climate Change Organization
  • World Data Center for Greenhouse Gases
  • Methane from Rice Production
  • Methane from Livestock
  • Methane in Ice-Covered, Continental Shelf Waters of the Beaufort Sea, Alaska

• Government Agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Fossil Fuels Server
  • Sustainability Examples
  • Energy Information Administration
  • California Energy Commission

• Economic Issues
  • Financial Times Energy Newsletter
  • Energy News Stories

• Environmental Organizations:
  • Oil Spill Intelligence Report
  • Acid Rain Resource
  • BCRI Research
  • Earthdream Eco-Links
  • Homepower Magazine
  • World Harmony Earrings
  • Go here and Chant
  • Go here and listen
  • Sierra Club
  • World Conservation Monitoring Centre
  • Electric Cars

Quizzes, Tests and Homework:

• First Homework Assignment (Due Jan. 28).
• Second Homework Assignment (Due Feb 9)
• Third Homework Assignment (Due Feb 25)
• Last Homework Assignment (Due Mar. 16)
• First Midterm Results
• Second Midterm Results
• Get Your Grade Here (Read the directions when you get there!)

Student Designed Pages:

LECTURES:

Lecture #01 (Jan 05) Cadillac Desert: The Legacy of the Colorado River

Lecture #02 (Jan 07) The End of Science

Lecture #03 (Jan 12) Basics of Exponential Growth

Lecture #04 (Jan 14) More about Exponential Growth

Lecture #05 (Jan 19) Population Growth and Finite Resources

Lecture #06 (Jan 21) Introduction to Sampling

Lecture #07 (Jan 26) Distributions and Means

Lecture #08 (Jan 28) Comparing Distributions: Defining what Significance is

Lecture #09 (Feb 02) Is the apparent decline in Northwest Salmon Significant?

Lecture #10 (Feb 04) Salmon II and More data sets: Urbanization and Climate, Global Temperature Patterns

MIDTERM Feb 09

Lecture #12 (Feb 11) Human Impact on Climate

Lecture #13 (Feb 16) The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect

Lecture #14 (Feb 18) Bothun's version of Environmental Mythology

Lecture #15 (Feb 23) Measurement Error

Lecture #16 (Feb 25) Data Reliability and Myth Suppression

Lecture #17 (Mar 02) Correlations in Data

MIDTERM Mar 04

Lecture #19 (Mar 09) More Correlations and Inference

Lecture #20 (Mar 11) Hooray This Class is Over!