Death Valley in Spring Bloom |
ES 10 Environmental Science
Welcome!
I can be reached at nicrane@cabrillo.edu, 479-5094 room 620.
Course Materials
| Material | Description |
| Course Syllabus F10 | Course Description and Schedule |
| Climate change link | Here is a link to a website developed by a Cabrillo Faculty Richard Nolthenius on climate change. |
| Extra credit option | some notes for the Ulithi extra credit option |
| Ulithi information for extra creditt project | A report on Locally Managed Reef strategy in the Pacific, The declaration letter from the community of Falalop, a report on fish, a report on corals and invertebrates, a report on the conservation strategy for the FSM (Micronesia) |
| Studypoints1 | study guide for coral reefs and acidification, worldviews, chemistry and biogeochemical cycles |
| Soil and agriculture study points | questions for soil and agriculture lecture |
| Study questions from John Carothers' talk | his powerpoint is on his website. Go to http://cabrillo.edu/~jcarothers/ to find it. Look at the right side under 'classes I teach' towards the lower section there is a link to 'climate and biomes' |
| Ecology studyquestions for the second exam | Study questions from Nicole's lectures ecology, natural selection and adaptation |
| study questions/notes from Kelly Newton's talk | Manta rays! |
| Kelly's manta slides | Pdf of the powerpoint |
| Conservation bio | Study questions for my conservation lecture F11 |
Interesting Papers (see the 'interesting papers' section of the website too)
| Carbon Dioxide and river runoff | Paper discussing Carbon dioxide effect in river runnoff records |
| climate and greenhouse gases (Nature) | Paper revisiting the link between greenhouse gases and warming |
| Retreating glaciers | Paper looking at the rates of glacial retreat in response to warming |
| Scientific consensus on climate change | A paper looking at the consensus of the scientific community on climate change |
| Climate change and marine fish (science) | A paper published in 'Science' talking about ocean temperature change and fish mortality |
Lecture Notes: note - these may not be the latest version when you download them! Please check the week of class to be sure
| Coral Reefs and problems | powerpoint for my first lecture on coral reefs |
| worldviews and chemistry | the powerpoint slides, updated 9/7/11 |
| notes for matter and energy lecture | some notes on the chemistry (matter and energy) material I will cover |
| Biogeochemical cycles notes | Notes - look them over |
| Powerpoint slides for agriculture and soil erosion | Updated 9/23 Powerpoint for my last lecture on agriculture |
| Nutrient cycling | Biogeochemical cycles powerpoint - look this one over |
| Biodiversity and Biomes | These are some of my powerpoint slides that I will be using for the Biodiversity portion |
| Evolution/Ecology/Ecosystems powerpoint | Here are the powerpoint slides |
| Conservation bio F11 | sorry for the confusion - here are the F11 slides |