| 27 Aug |
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| 29 Aug |
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| 3 Sept |
Cosmosphere I-1
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| 5 Sept |
Cosmosphere I-2
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| 10 Sept |
Cosmosphere II-1
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| 12 Sept |
Cosmosphere II-2
 | The Active Sun; Cosmosphere demonstration. Transition to the
Geosphere |
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| 17 Sept |
Geosphere I
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| 18 Sept |
DMES Picnic  |
| 19 Sept |
Geosphere II
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| 24 Sept |
Geosphere III: Change:
How do we know the earth has changed? In what ways has it changed? How
long is geological time? Can
you relate to 4.6 billion
years? How can past changes help us understand and
predict
future changes?
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| 26 Sept |
Geosphere IV How big are earthly things?
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| 1 Oct |
First Mid-term Examination |
| 3 Oct |
Anthroposphere
I : i)
How
humans interact with their natural and
cultural environments; ii) How the natural environment affects human
culture; by Janet Mitchell (see
Anthroposphere 1 PPT)
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| 8 Oct |
Anthroposphere II:
Population dynamics
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| 10 Oct |
Anthroposphere III:
Earth
resources/consumption trends; renewable energy.
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| 15 Oct |
Anthroposphere IV: Approaches
to sustaining resources; geosphere measurements and calculations.
Transition to the Hydrosphere.
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| 17 October |
Hydrosphere I:
H2O
- The most interesting and unique chemical compound on planet earth.
Who Cares?
Why
is the earth the blue planet?
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| 22 October |
Hydrosphere II: Snow
and Ice: How much does water change terrestrial surfaces? Where does ice
meet the land?
The sea?
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| 24 October |
Hydrosphere III: The
Ocean: 70.8% of the earth’s surface and a major influence on all the
other spheres.
Global effects of the ocean.
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| 29 October |
Hydrosphere
IV: The Changing Sea Level; Hydrosphere-geosphere-anthroposphere interactions. Review
for
Second Mid-Term Examination covering the Anthroposphere and Hydrosphere
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| 31 October |
Second Mid-Term Examination |
5 Nov |
Atmosphere I: Composition
and structure.
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| 7 Nov |
Atmosphere II:
Winds,
weather, and desert.
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| 12 Nov |
Atmosphere III: Earth’s
climate system.
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| 14 Nov |
Atmosphere IV: Atmosphere
demonstration.
| Atmosphere 4 PPT |
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| 19 Nov |
Biosphere I
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| 21 November |
Biosphere II
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| 26 Nov |
Biosphere III
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| 3 December |
Biosphere IV
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| 5 December |
Course Wrap-up--!!Last Day in the Whole
Earth!!
| Review of Atmosphere Homework |
| Review of Biosphere Homework |
| Review for Final Exam |
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| 12 December |
Final Examination,
3:30-5:30 PM |
|
Stop Here |
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 Atmosphere: Cloud
thinning caused by global warming leading to more global warming. An example
of a positive feedback |
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 Hydrosphere: Red Tide on the Texas
Coast; be sure to click on the "Play Video" to see a video clip
with narration. |
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Cosmosphere-Biosphere-Geosphere
"Old" Biosphere (250 million years ago!!) brought back to life |
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 Hydrosphere-Anthroposphere
Interaction: A
"giant" wave could wipe out Miami and other USA coastal areas. |
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 Another Hydrosphere-anthroposphere
Interaction, with conflict: Increasing
the size of a dam would provide increased electricity, more food, more economy but would
displace people. |
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Biosphere: New species
happen faster than originally thought! |
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Cosmosphere-Anthroposphere Interaction: 15,000
year old lunar calendar discovered. |
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Anthroposphere-Atmosphere: Are
"we" (us humans!) really causing global warming, or are there
non-anthropogenic forces at work? This short article attempts to make objective criticism
of the proposed causal factors leading to global warming. |
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Hydrosphere-Anthroposphere-Biosphere: Panama Canal
running out of water to float ships passing through |
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Hydrosphere-Anthroposphere Interaction: Sunken ancient
ship in found on the bottom of the Black Sea |
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Atmosphere-Anthroposphere: Carbon
treaty |
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Cosmosphere: message from Professor Rassoul .Dear
WholeEarth class The flux of high-energy protons near Earth is now ~100,000 times greater
than normal following a powerful solar flare at 2330 GMT (6:30 pm EST) on Nov. 8th. The
effects of this severe S4-class radiation storm, which is the 4th largest measured since
1976, include HF radio propagation over Earth's polar regions may fading or black out and
glitches in earth-orbiting satellites (for example, the QuickSCAT satellite appears to be
measuring more frequent "high background" flags in the startracker than usual).
Astronauts are safe so long as they avoid extra-vehicular activities. We are very close to
the solar maximum period in the eleven year solar cycle where events of this nature are
expected to be more frequent. The solar radiation storm poses no physical danger to people
on earth. The progress of the radiation storm can be followed at the website of the Space
Environment Center(http://www.sec.noaa.gov/index.html).
This storm underscores the importance of space weather and its radiation effects on
satellites and Geospace environment. Contact Prof. Rassoul (x8778) for more details. |
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Atmosphere-Anthroposphere: Carbon treaty
discussed today |
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 Anthroposphere: Old will outnumber the
young! Good summary of present and future population distribution |
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 Biosphere-Anthroposphere
Interaction: Panda Bears |
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Anthroposphere: We all be
traced to Africa |
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Cosmosphere (it had an hydrosphere?). Mars may have
been wet |
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Cosmosphere: A big, black
hole -- see animation |
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 Anthroposphere: Dirty Dozen
(12 "bad" chemicals) banned; 122 countries sign a treaty. |
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 Cosmosphere: New planets
discovered |
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