Web Site:  Tentative Class Schedule – Subject to Changes and Additions

 

 

Week

Day

Topic

References/Assignment

1

Sept 9

Introduction – Facilitating Environmental Changes and Overview of Environmental Issues in Northern Minnesota

Northern Minnesota – Landscape features

 

2

Sept 14

Northern Minnesota – Ecology of Lakes; Stressors on Lakes

Tester Ch 1, 5

 

Sept 16

Trip to BWCA

 

3

Sept 21

Northern Minnesota – Stressors on Lakes and Forests

 

Tester Lakes Chapter 8

Schindler - Stessors on Boreal Forests

 

Sept 23

Lakes – Mercury

Topics Due

4

Sept 28

Speth: Red Sky at Morning (1-73)

 

 

Sept 30

Speth: Red Sky at Morning (74-147)

 

5

Oct 5

No class – Nobel Conference

 

 

Oct 7

Speth: Red Sky at Morning (148-end)

 

6

Oct 12

First Presentations

 

 

Oct 14

Wilson:  The Future of Life (1-64)

 

7

Oct 19

Wilson: The Future of Life (65-139)

 

 

Oct 21

Wilson: The Future of Life (140-189)

 

8

Oct 26

No class –fall break

 

 

 

Oct 28

Global Warming/Hyrdogen Economy

 

9

Nov 2

Trip to Green Institute?

 

 

Nov 4

Global Warming/Hyrdogen Economy

 

10

Nov 9

Global Warming/Hyrdogen Economy

 

 

Nov 11

Presentations

 

11

Nov 16

Presentations

 

 

Nov 18

Air Pollution/Taconite

 

12

Nov 23

 

 

 

Nov 25

Thanksgiving Holiday

 

13

Nov 30

 

 

 

Dec 2

 

Final Paper Due

14

Dec 7

Issues facing the Great Lakes

 

 

Dec 9

Final Presentations

 

15

Dec 14

Final Presentations