http://web.pdx.edu/~rueterj/courses/esm101

Instructor:

John Rueter
Professor, Envionmental Sciences and Management
Director - School of the Environment
office - SRTC 118B
email - rueterj@pdx.edu
office hours - to be announced

Announcements:

Chapter 12 material will be on the assessment for this week in preparation for next Tuesday's lecture.

Assessment 9 won't be due until Monday at midnight.

 

Class times:

As a hybrid class this has only one lecure per week. Tuesday from 10 AM to 11:20 in BA 190.

Lab times:

There are four lab sections. You must be enrolled in one of these.

Mon 4:20 to 5:10
Tue 9:00 to 9:50
Wed 4:20 to 5:10
Thur 9:00 to 9:50

Other Information:

syllabus with grading and other information

D2L will have the schedule for the week, lecture notes, learning objectives and the on-line assignments. You will be in the lecture section and in one of the lab sections.

There will be three quizzes (on line).

Links to resources:

  • web.pdx.edu/~rueterj/courses/ESM101
  • D2L for lecture and lab
  • D2L for the quizzes
  • Wikipedia and NCSE - Encyclopedia Earth
  • text: Multiple Perspectives and Approaches to Complex Environmental Problems

Lecture Date Topics Schedule
for the week		 learning objectives assignment
feedback		 quiz
lecture 1 Sep 27 Introduction, problem types week 1
 week 1 one  
lecture 2 Oct 04 systems, population growth week 2 week 2 two  
lecture 3 Oct 11 Patterns and likelihood, models week 3 week 3 three  
lecture 4 Oct 18 food chains and food webs week 4 week 4 four

 
lecture 5 Oct 25 patterns in growth of natural populations week 5 week 5 five first quiz
quiz1-feedback
lecture 6 Nov 1 biodiversity, biomes, network models week 6 week 6 six  
lecture7 Nov 8 fragmentation, resilience, collapse week 7 week 7 seven  
lecture8 Nov 15 natural resource management, tragedy of the commons week 8 week 8 eight second quiz -Tue Nov 15
quiz2-instructions
lecture9 Nov 22

maximum sustainable yield

 week 9 week 9 nine  
lecture10 Nov 29 multiple perspectives week10 week10 no feedback  
    Finals week       third quiz
Tue Dec 6 to 7 for only 24 hours
quiz3-instructions

last updated on November 30, 2011 by John Rueter