UCSD ESYS 10 Introduction to Environmental Systems
Winter 2006
January 12
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Home page
Powerpoint
lecture link
Handout: Case
study warmup (linked with some background resources not included in class
handout)
Reading: Chapter
1 Kump, Casting and Crane
Problems due Tuesday Jan. 17: Chapter 1 #1,4,8,9 (Please scan the others as a way of
studying the material in the chapter.)
Topics:
Ozone
depletion
National
Academy of Sciences discussion
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/defns.html#ozdepl
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/index.html
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/Ozone/
http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/
Easter
Island: a parable of human impact on climate change
Easter Island Home Page
Mysterious Places: The Easter Island Story
Change in the Earth system over time
Vostok ice cores
The K-T boundary and dinosaur extinction one overview
Solar luminosity
Gaia hypothesis
Gaia
theory website at Lancaster University
Last
modification Jan. 12 2006