May 1st, 2012 § § permalink
This assignment will count as both your participation grade for the day (if you were in attendance) as well as part of the written part of your grade.
A hard copy is due to me before week’s end, in class. Note that a digital copy, in the form of an .rtf file, must be submitted to turnitin.com.
- Go to turnitin.com and register.
- Use the courseID and password in the syllabus to access turnitin.com for this course
- submit your .rtf file to the “invasive species” slot
- obtain a similarity score less than or equal to 10%
- please be certain that the .rtf filename is something close to ensp2324sp2012_assign03_lastname_firstname.rtf
Choose an endangered or threatened species – not one discussed at length in the text – and explain
- the reasons for its situation
- what we know about its value
- what is likely to result from its loss
The hard copy
- double-spaced, two pages (minimum) not counting the literature cited section.
- must contain cited references in-text for all facts, figures, and claims.
- cite full bibliographic information (authors(s), date, title, etc.) in the literature cited section
April 4th, 2012 § § permalink
A Lenni Lenape once told me, “Scars on the land are the gateways to Hell.”
Barringer Meteorite Crater (Winslow, AZ) is a 50,000 year old scar resulting from a collision with an extraterrestrial rock.
He might have been correct, judging by the depth and dimension of some these. All but the first of these are the result of recent human (mining) activity.
Barringer Crater (Winslow, AZ)
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Kimberley (Australia) Big Hole, a diamond mine. This is possibly the largest hand-dug hole on Earth and where de Beer’s got their start!
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Bingham Canyon Mine (Herriman, UT), a copper mine.
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Mirny diamond mine (Siberia).
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Chuquicamata (Chile), a copper mine. This is claimed to be the largest open pit copper mine on Earth.
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Diavik (Canada), a diamond mine
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Udachnaya pipe (Russia), a diamond mine
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February 15th, 2012 § § permalink
An article by Glaw et al. (2012) in the Public Library of Science reveals the discovery of several of the smallest amniotes yet observed … tiny chameleons in the genus Brookesia.
Madagascar, home to the Malagasy Republic, is considered to be one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots. The overwhelming majority of the species there are endemic, i.e., found there and nowhere else.
Unfortunately, The Malagasy Republic is in a serious financial mire. The population of 21.9 million (mid-year 2011) has a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $438. 90% of the population lives on less than $2 per day. 69% of the population lives on less than $1 per day (THEIR measure of the poverty threshold).
When your ability to keep your family from starvation is pitted against the national need to preserve the endemic biodiversity, in my experience, eating wins every time.
February 15th, 2012 § § permalink
Jacqueline Jacot, is leading the Green Ambassadors Program in the student residence halls.
The program aims to :
- Educate students about sustainability, especially sustainability initiatives on-campus.
- Empower students with information about the various ways to achieve a sustainable lifestyle.
- Prepare students to become information disseminators and role models to others who wish to live more sustainably.
You are invited to participate in the program. Students from every residence hall are needed. Students interested in this exciting initiative, should contact Jacqueline at jjacot@stedwards.edu by this Friday, Feb. 17 so that she can move forward with the program.
More about the program :
- Green Ambassadors Tentative Meeting Format
- About 30 minutes depending on discussion and activities
- Meetings held every other week
- Location : TBD
Topics for discussion:
- How can I be more sustainable?
- How can SEU be more sustainable?
- Off-campus meetings at local and sustainable businesses
- Sustainable changes to residence halls
- Movies, Music, and Art about environmentalism
- Spreading word about on-campus and local green initiatives
Promotion of the Program :
February 2nd, 2012 § § permalink
Gravitational lensing : NASA image
Source :
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_575.html
This image, from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the gravitational lensing resulting from the massive cluster of galaxies in the center of the image. The light from one galaxy behind the cluster is bent to create the three objects outlined in red. The light from an even more-distant quasar is bent to create the five objects outlined in blue.
January 29th, 2012 § § permalink
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