Environmental Biology Readings

Start Me Up!

• Example Student Research Projects
• The Nature of Science.    
• The Process of Evolution
• Mechanisms of Evolution. Peppered Moth Simulation. (for Lab)
• Evidence for Evolution More is here if you want (not an assignment)
• Convergent Evolution
• Human Evolution Links
• An Introduction to Animal Diversity (for Lab)
• Introduction to Ecology: Distributions.
• Introduction to GIS (Out of Class Activity)
• Shark Fossil Lab
• Neurobiology of the sexes
• Introduction to Ecology: Populations.
• Go to SECRET readings and read "Beyond Malthus"
• Crimes against nature
• World Population Datasheet  2002, 2003
• Watch "The Meatrix"

So, What's Wrong with the World Anyway?

• Environmental Problems list
• Global Warming and Climate Change
• Bush, the Environmental President 
• Read this too!  Then read this
• Bush and Kerry on Science
•   The World is Going to Hell in a Hand Basket
• Population Growth
• Climate Change
• Hormones and Hormone Disruptors in the Environment
• Pesticides and other contaminants in the environment
• Water
• Ecosystem Simplification
• Invasive Species
• Loss of Biodiversity
• Mass Extinction
• Transgenic Crops
• Nanotechnology
• Emerging Diseases
• BioTerrorism
• Satellite Imaging
• How Electric Power is Produced
• 11 Oct 2004- Jump in Greenhouse Gasses
• Extinction
• IUCN Redlist of Endangered Species Check this too!
• Data results for fish Fall 2004
• 20,000 Dead (Global Warming)
• Tropical Disease Reading
• Link to Caulerpa taxifolia in Southern California. A movie based on a simulation can be seen here
• Main Elodea Link (A fresh-water equivalent of Caulerpa taxifolia; Lots of in-depth links are here)
• Hormones in the Environment Lecture Pix (Read one of the following for content and skim the rest)
  • More frog troubles: Herbicides may Emasculate Wild Males
  • Source of Chemicals that Feminize Lake Mead Fish Discovered
  • The Gender Benders (Alligators)
  • Mandelson's Birds Face Hormone Disruption Threat
  • Polar bears See also Contaminants in Polar Bears
  • The Demise of Human Sperm
• Biosphere Rant (Summary)  
• Mercury in Fish is here and here Fishing Warning Signs
• An Active 2004 Atlantic Hurricane Season Likely (NOAA)

General Resources

• Audio Interviews
• Environmental Defense Fund. Not just a bunch a tree-huggers. Lots of good links and info.
• Environmental Link Sites.
• Ecological Indicators for the Nation
• Global Change Ecosystems Research
• Nature Science Update by Subject
• Introduction to GIS
• A better Earth