ENVS 202 On-line Access Winter 2000

Quantitative Methods and Environmental Problems

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Corrected point total matrix (450 total):

 1. 10 pts  8. 15 pts  15. 10 pts 22. 10 pts
 2. 30 pts  9. 30 pts  16. 10 pts 23. 30 pts
 3. 20 pts 10. 15 pts  17. 20 pts 24. 20 pts
 4. 10 pts 11. 15 pts  18. 20 pts 25. 40 pts
 5. 10 pts 12. 20 pts  19. 20 pts
 6. 10 pts 13. 10 pts  20. 15 pts
 7. 10 pts 14. 10 pts  21. 40 pts

Discussion Forum for the Final Exam

Administrative stuff:

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

Tools:

Statistical Graphical Tool
• Table of Probabilities

Current Events in the News:

• Global Warming worse than thought
  The Data this is based on This is Thomas Karl
• 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:
  • Good Comprehensive Report
  • Global Climate Change and Tropical Forests
  • 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 25)
• Second Homework assignment (Due Feb 8)
• Third Homework assignment (Due Feb 22)
• Fourth Homework assignment (Due Mar 09)
• First Midterm Results
• Second Midterm Results
• Get Your Grade Here (Read the directions when you get there!)

Student Designed Pages:

LECTURES:

Lecture #01 (Jan 06) Why the need for Objectivity?

Lecture #02 (Jan 11) Poll Results; Fossil Fuel Depletion

Lecture #03 (Jan 13) Global Warming: The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect

Lecture #04 (Jan 18) Understanding Exponential Growth

Lecture #05 (Jan 20) More on Exponential Growth; More on Global Warming

Lecture #06 (Jan 25) Population Growth and Finite Resources

Lecture #07 (Jan 27) Introduction to Sampling

Lecture #08 (Feb 01) Cadillac Desert: The Legacy of the Colorado River

MIDTERM Feb 03

Lecture #09 (Feb 08) Distributions and Means

Lecture #10 (Feb 10) Comparing Distributions and Determining Significance

Lecture #11 (Feb 15) The Decline of the Northwest Salmon?

Lecture #12 (Feb 17) Breach the Dams but where's the Power?

Lecture #13 (Feb 22) Measurement Errors and Data Reliabiity

Lecture #14 (Feb 24) Linear Regression/Correlation I

Lecture #15 (Feb 29) Linear Regression/Correlation II

MIDTERM Mar 02

Lecture #16 (Mar 07) Some Final Remarks

Mar 09 Course Evaluations; Pick up Take Home Final