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Lab Syllabus - Ecosphere in Crisis
Walter Rainboth — Sections 01 & 03
Fall 2007
Note that this schedule is tentative. Weather may intervene, or other potential sources of information or discussion
may become available. Check your email.
Week 1 - Introduction to Science and the Scientific Method - presentation in lab + Quiz
Homework assignment — Begin personal energy consumption exercise
Week 2 - Field Trip - Terrestrial Succession at Waukau Creek Nature Reserve
Week 3 - Field Trip - Aquatic Succession at Terrell’s Island aquatic restoration project
Week 4 - Video - The Environmental Revolution; Field Trip - Campus as an Urban Environment
Week 5 - Field Trip - History of the Fox Valley
Week 6 - Reading - Easter’s End by Jared Diamond + Quiz; Video - Do We Really Want to Live this Way?
Week 7 - Reading - Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin + Quiz; Video - The Last Harvest
Week 8 - Mid-term exam; Hand in personal energy consumption exercise followed by Video - The Power of Water
Week 9 - Reading - The Mismanagement of the National Forests by Perri Knize +Quiz; Video - Public Lands,
Private Profits
Week 10 - Video - What’s Up with the Weather? (1st half of it); Video - Dimming the Sun
Week 11 - Readings - Jevons’ Coal and Hubbert’s Pimple by Garrett Hardin & The End of Cheap Oil by Campbell
and Laherrère + Quiz; Video - Great Lakes, Bitter Legacy
Week 12 - Videos - In Our Children’s Food; Fooling with Nature
Week 13 - Reading - Where Have All the Farmers Gone; Video - Save the Earth, Feed the World
Week 14 - Final Lab Exam
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Walter Rainboth Media Needs
Halsey 110
Video
Computer (Powerpoint)
Sept 08 - 09:30 - 12:30
Sept 13 - 08:00 - 11:00
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Sept 29 - 09:30 - 12:30
Oct 04 - 08:00 - 11:00
X Environmental Revolution
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Oct 13 - 09:30 - 12:30
Oct 18 - 08:00 - 11:00
X Do We Really Want to Live This Way?
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Oct 20 - 09:30 - 12:30
Oct 25 - 08:00 - 11:30
X The Last Harvest
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Oct 27 - 09:30 - 12:30
Nov 01 - 08:00 - 11:00
X The Power of Water
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Nov 03 - 09:30 - 12:30
Nov 08 - 08:00 - 11:00
X Public Lands, Private Profits
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Nov 10 - 09:30 - 12:30
Nov 15 - 08:00 - 11:00
X What’s Up With The Weather?
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Nov 17 - 09:30 - 12:30
Nov 22 - 08:00 - 11:00
X Great Lakes, Bitter Legacy
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Nov 29 - 08:00 - 11:00
Dec 01 - 09:30 - 12:30
X In Our Children’s Food, Fooling With Nature
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Dec 06 - 08:00 - 11:00
Dec 08 - 09:30 - 12:30
X Save the Earth, Feed the World
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Dec 13 - 08:00 - 11:00
Dec 15 - 09:30 - 12:30
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Rainboth 104 labs
Buses
Sept 12 - 09:10 - 12:10
Sept 17 - 09:10 - 12:10
Waukau Creek Nature Reserve
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Sept 19 - 09:10 - 12:10
Sept 24 - 09:10 - 12:10
Terrell’s Island
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Oct 03 - 09:10 - 12:10
Oct 08 - 09:10 - 12:10
Butte des Morts, Oshkosh
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