All of last years web notes have been assembled into a CoursePack that contains 155 pages of printed material organized by lecture topic as listed below.

    The cost to the student of this CoursePack is about $10.00. CoursePacks are available from The Copy Shop, 535 East 13th (about two blocks west of campus). An attempt to make thse available for purchase at the Environmental Studies office has failed. So, go to the Copy Shop and ask for the EVS 202 coursepack.

    It is highly recommended that you take advantage of this relatively inexpensive and greatly time saving way to get a complete set of notes that form the foundation of this course. While individual lectures will differ slightly from these printed notes (based on last years course), they nonetheless will be highly relevant throughout the term.

  • Lecture #01 (Jan 06) The End of Science
  • Lecture #02 (Jan 08) Cadillac Desert: The Legacy of the Colorado River
  • Lecture #03 (Jan 13) Basics of Exponential Growth
  • Lecture #04 (Jan 15) More about Exponential Growth
  • Lecture #05 (Jan 20) Exponential Growth and Trend Extrapolation
  • Lecture #06 (Jan 22) Introduction to Sampling
  • Lecture #07 (Jan 27) Distributions and Means
  • Lecture #08 (Jan 29) Comparing Distributions: Defining what Significance is
  • Lecture #11 (Feb 10) Is the salmon decline significant?
  • Lecture #12 (Feb 12) Salmon, more data sets, global warming intro
  • Lecture #13 (Feb 17) Radiation Balance of the Earth: The Greenhouse Effect
  • Lecture #14 (Feb 19) Global Warming: Digging Signal out of Noise
  • Lecture #15 (Feb 24) Environmental Mythology
  • Lecture #16 (Feb 26) Measurement Error
  • Lecture #17 (Mar 03) Data Reliability and Myth Supression
  • Lecture #19 (Mar 10) Basics of Linear Regression
  • Lecture #20 (Mar 12) Correlations in Real Data Sets