Environ 201/NRE 201 Ecological Issues

Program in Environment and School of Natural Resources and Environment

Welcome to the Environ 201 internet resource page. The purpose of this page is to provide Environ 201 students with a single place on the internet to go for course information, including:

Because of this WWW site, you will not be receiving many of the handouts that would normally be distributed in class. You will be expected to come to this site to find much of the information needed to participate in this course.

Also, because of this site, you will have access to far more information about the course than is usual. We will make an attempt to put more information here regarding lectures, assignments, and tests than we would normally distribute on paper.

As this site evolves throughout the term, we will notify you in class and at the bottom of this page of new information and when that information is added. Please bear with us if this site gets a little rough around the edges at times.

During the term new assignments, handouts and other information will regularly be added to this site.

If you have any questions about this site, please send email to <Jim Diana


Faculty:

Jim Diana
1520a Dana (Natural Resources)
763-5834
Office Hours Monday 2-3, Thursday 1-2
email <jimd@umich.edu


Lecture Materials

Over time we will add materials here to supplement lectures. I will try to include materials from the overheads and slides used in class, at least the data and chart slides (most likely not the pictures) that do not come from your book. They will be here as powerpoint presentations. You can download them and view them on powerpoint. Most likely if you click on the listing below, it will open powerpoint and the slides on either a mac or pc. However, if it does not you will need to associate the file with powerpoint, which should be on all PCs and macs in the university system. Let me know if this is not the case.

Also, if you do not have powerpoint on a home computer and still want to access these files there, you can download a viewer for your computer. Use the following method:

http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx


Specific Lecture Materials

Thursday, September 5 - Environmental Ethics
For slides used in the lecture, click here

Tuesday, September 17 - Populations and carrying capacity
For slides used in the lecture, click here

Tuesday, September 24 - Population consequences
For slides used in the lecture, click here

Thursday, September 26 - Endangered species
For slides used in the lecture, click here

Tuesday, October 1 - Climate change
For slides used in the lecture, click here

Thursday, October 3 - Soils
For slides used in the lecture, click here
For the handout used in the lecture, click here

 Tuesday, October 8 - Agriculture
For slides used in the lecture, click here

 Thursday, October 10 - Fisheries and Aquaculture
For slides used in the lecture, click here

Thursday, October 17 - Forestry
For slides used in the lecture, click here

Thursday, November 14 - Zoos, parks, and preserves
 For slides used in the lecture, click here

Tuesday, November 19 - Great Lakes
 For slides used in the lecture, click here

Thursday, November 21 - Energy production
 For slides used in the lecture, click here

 


Discussion Section Materials

Student Produced Web Pages and Computer Projects:

Projects in Fall 2001:

Exotic Nuisance Species Infopage for Anglers of the Great Lakes by Doug Urquhart
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~durquhar/SNRE/frames_index.htm.

The Growing Human Population! By Diana March and Trish Hayes
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tahayes/project.html

Golf and the Environment: Problems and Practices by Andrew Lurie
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~luriea/golfmain.html

The Effects of Technology in our Environment by Mark Kim, Lena Bloom, and Amy Kaye
www.angelfire.com/mi4/nre301/mainpage.html

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by Amy Kennedy
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~akennedy/

Three Gorges Dam by Brett Baudinet, Greg Novak, Ben Cox, and Yunsang Park
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbaudine/
click on "Three Gorges Dam"

Projects in Fall 2000 and before:

A website by Heidi Reece on the ozone hole:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hereece/index.htm

A website by Nora Ellen Kammer on longline fishing and swordfish:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nkammer/

A Fall 1999 Web site on public lands in Michigan by William Wesley Bornor
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbornor/nre

Three Gorges Dam in China by Sara Goldberg
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~swgoldbe/page1.html

All about coral reefs by Sally Coleman and Jeffrey Schectel
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jschecte/html/CRmainpage.html

Rainforest Destruction by Liz Avore
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eavore/nre301.html

Nuclear Fallout by Jake Moilanen
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmoilane/nuclear/

The ozone hole and ozone issues
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~burchman/Ecology.html


Enjoy the web site, let us know what you want to see that is not here, and have a good term.