Environmental
Conservation
GEO 260,
Spring 2006
WWW
Resources for Environmental
Conservation
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Contents Study Aids | The Conservation Movement | John Muir | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Henry David Thoreau | George Perkins Marsh | The Indiana Dunes | Earth Sun Relationships | Animal Culture | Primary Relationships | Water | Environmental Art | Genetically Modified Organisms | Energy | Superfund | Global Warming | Local Recreational Opportunities | PBS Nature and Science Programs You Should Watch | Cable Nature and Science Programs You Should Watch | Publications You should Read Connections
in Environmental Science Physical Geography.net An online textbook for physical geography. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography An online textbook for physical geography. Evolution of the Conservation Movement from the Library of Congress' American Memory project. Includes tons of pictures and the full text of many important documents including George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature. There's even some video here--including the film The Roosevelt Dam which is worth a viewing. John Muir
Exhibit A website about John Muir from the Sierra Club. RWE.org is a web site all about Ralph Waldo Emerson. Works of his that are in the public domain are available to you through this web site including his book Nature. The Thoreau Reader Thoreau's works are aslo in the public domain and can be read at this site. Man and nature; or, Physical geography as modified by human action. By George P. Marsh Full text of the book from the Library of Congress's American Memory Project Evolution of the Conservation Movement website. Indiana Dunes and Northwest Indiana Geology Field Notes: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Indiana Natural Areas and Native and Exotic Species: The Extraordinary Natural Habitats of Northwest Indiana Henry C. Cowles and Ecological Succession and Ecology and the Preservation of the Indiana Dunes From the American Enviornmental Photographs archive of the American Memory Project. Karner Blue Butterfly from the Chipper Woods Bird Observatory Karner Blue Butterfly from the National Wildlife Federation Big Eastern.com Northern Indiana's Environmental Blog North American Amphibian Monitoring program includes an Indiana web site that has a handy guide to identifying frogs and toads in the state complete with recordings of their calls. Useful for identifying the frog calls that you hear as you roam around the dunes, and around town, in the spring. 4/2/05 Hey there everyone. On that warm day last week, I think it was wednesday, I heard the frogs singing in the ponds near my house for the first time this spring. In today's paper there is an article about a volunteer for the Volunteers record species present by listening for their distinctive calls. Frogs are particularly vulnerable to environmental degradation and therefore can serve as a barometer for enviornmental health. The Indiana web site for the program has a They also provide a protocol that you could use to try doing your own survey. You might try your hand at some frog identification for an outdoor experience.
Earth-Sun Relationships from From The Physical Environment online text. Calculating the Noon Sun Angle From The Physical Environment online text. Earth Sun Geometry A nifty annimated diagram that shows the effect on the revolution of the Earth around the sun on the amount of insolation received on the ground. Here's a report from NPR. It is from one of the library databases so you'll need to be on campus or have the settings for the proxy server set on your browser at home. Orangutan Network All you ever wanted to know about Orangutans including Orangutan culture Crabbers, scientists struggle to find answers to a dying ecosystem The Christo and Jean
Claude Web Site Waiter, There's a Drug in my Rice Virtual Nuclear Tourist Nuclear Powerplants around the world! Danish Wind Industry Association California Rolls Toward Hydrogen An article from Wired News on plans to create a "Hydrogen Highway" in California. The Tragedy of Tar Creek an article from Time about the failure of the Superfund program Ozone: Good Up High, Bad Nearby A brochure from the EPA Smog Watch from the Indiana Office of Air Quality. See current, past, and forcasts of air quality conditions. Project S.A.F.E Swimming Advisory Forecast Estimate from teh USGS Great Lakes Science Center Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Ways to mitigate climate change from the IPCC Greenhouse gas level hits record high an article from New Scientist NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnosticcs Laboratory Carbon Cylce Greenhouse Gasses page. View data on concnetrations of greenhouse gasses. GreenHouse Gas Online News, Research and Resources. Some good basic explainations here. World Views of Global Warming Photographs documenting visible evidence of global warming. Local
Recreational Opportunities Bicycle Trails
in Northwest Indiana PBS
Nature and Science Programs You Should Watch Not all of these are on now, but their web sites often offer tons
of information. Cable Nature and Science Programs You Should Watch The cable channels are driven by the profit motive so you're more likely to get stories about megafauna and people redecorating, but there are also some good programs out there. Mythbusters
If you think you don't like science just watch this show once. Publications
You Should Read More links comming soon... |