Death Valley in Spring Bloom |
ES 10 Environmental Science
Welcome!
I can be reached at nicrane@cabrillo.edu, 479-5094 room 620. Office hours : M/W 2:40-3:40 and by arrangement
Course Materials
| Material | Description |
| Course Syllabus F09 | Course Description and Schedule |
| Studypoints1 | study guide for worldviews, chemistry and biogeochemical cycles |
| Studyquestions2 | questions for soil and agriculture lecture |
| studyquestions for the second exam | Study questions from Nicole's lectures on ecosystems, natural selection etc. |
| studyquestions from John Carothers' lecture | Biomes, weather, climate etc. |
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
| worldviews | the powerpoint slides |
| notes for matter and energy lecture | some notes on the chemistry (matter and energy) material I will cover |
| Biogeochemical cycles notes | Notes |
| powerpoint for the matter and energy | Powerpoint slides for the matter/energy topics I will cover |
| Nutrient cycling | Biogeochemical cycles powerpoint |
| Lecture: Evolution Ecology and Ecosystems | Some of my notes |
| Evolution/Ecology/Ecosystems powerpoint | Here are most of the powerpoint slides I use, updated F09 |
| Biomes and Biodiversity | Here are some of my notes |
| Biodiversity and Biomes | These are some of my powerpoint slides that I will be using for the Biodiversity portion |
| Land management | notes handed out in class |
| Soil/Ag/Erosion/pesticides powerpoint | powerpoint slides for the soil ag. and erosion lecture |
| nonrenewable resources notes | |
| Conservation Biology/Management | Powerpoint for the last lecture |