ENVS416 - FRESHWATER ECOLOGY

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
FRESHWATER ECOLOGY
Term session
0
Term
2017A
Subject area
ENVS
Section number only
401
Section ID
ENVS416401
Meeting times
MW 0330PM-0500PM
Meeting location
GODDARD LAB 101
Instructors
ARSCOTT, DAVID
Description
Survey of the physical, chemical and biological properties of freshwater ecosystems, both riverine and lentic, natural and polluted.


Course number only
416
Cross listings
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    No

    ENVS410 - THE ROLE OF WATER IN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCY

    Status
    O
    Activity
    SEM
    Title (text only)
    THE ROLE OF WATER IN URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCY
    Term session
    0
    Term
    2017A
    Subject area
    ENVS
    Section number only
    301
    Section ID
    ENVS410301
    Meeting times
    T 0530PM-0830PM
    Meeting location
    DAVID RITTENHOUSE LAB 3N6
    Instructors
    NEUKRUG, HOWARD
    Description
    This course will provide an overview of the cross-disciplinary fields of civil engineering, environmental sciences, urban hydrology, landscape architecture, green building, public outreach and politics. Students will be expected to conduct field investigations, review scientific data and create indicator reports, working with stakeholders and presenting the results at an annual symposium. There is no metaphor like water itself to describe the cumulative effects of our practices, with every upstream action having an impact downstream. In our urban environment, too often we find degraded streams filled with trash, silt, weeds and dilapidated structures. The water may look clean, but is it? We blame others, but the condition of the creeks is directly related to how we manage our water resources and our land. In cities, these resources are often our homes, our streets and our communities. This course will define the current issues of the urban ecosystem and how we move toward managing this system in a sustainable manner. We will gain an understanding of the dynamic, reciprocal relationship between practices in an watershed and its waterfront. Topics discussed include: drinking water quality and protection, green infrastructure, urban impacts of climate change, watershed monitoring, public education, creating strategies and more.


    Course number only
    410
    Cross listings
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      No

      ENVS407 - PREVENTION OF TOBACCO ADDICTION IN PRE-ADOLESCENT CHILDREN OF PHILADELPHIA

      Status
      C
      Activity
      SEM
      Title (text only)
      PREVENTION OF TOBACCO ADDICTION IN PRE-ADOLESCENT CHILDREN OF PHILADELPHIA
      Term session
      0
      Term
      2017A
      Syllabus URL
      Subject area
      ENVS
      Section number only
      001
      Section ID
      ENVS407001
      Meeting times
      TR 1030AM-1200PM
      Meeting location
      HAYDEN HALL 358
      Instructors
      KULIK, MICHAEL
      Description
      Cigarette smoking is a major public health problem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Control reports that more than 80% of current adult tobacco users started smoking before age 18. The National Youth Tobacco Survey indicated that 12.8% of middle school students and 34.8% of high school students in their study used some form of tobacco products.


      In ENVS 407, Penn undergraduates learn about the short and long term physiological consequences of smoking, social influences and peer norms regarding tobacco use, the effectiveness of cessation programs, tobacco advocacy and the impact of the tobacco settlement. Penn students will collaborate with teachers in West Philadelphia to prepare and deliver lessons to middle school students. The undergraduates will survey and evaluate middle school and Penn student smoking. One of the course goals is to raise awareness of the middle school children to prevent addiction to tobacco smoke during adolescence. Collaboration with the middle schools gives Penn students the opportunity to apply their study of the prevention of tobacco smoking to real world situations.


      Course number only
      407
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        No

        ENVS406 - COMMUNITY BASED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

        Status
        C
        Activity
        SEM
        Title (text only)
        COMMUNITY BASED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
        Term session
        0
        Term
        2017A
        Subject area
        ENVS
        Section number only
        001
        Section ID
        ENVS406001
        Meeting times
        TR 0130PM-0300PM
        Meeting location
        DAVID RITTENHOUSE LAB 2C4
        Instructors
        KULIK, MICHAEL
        Description
        From the fall of the Roman Empire to Love Canal to the epidemics of asthma, childhood obesity and lead poisoning in West Philadelphia, the impact of the environment on health has been a continuous challenge to society. The environment can affect people's health more strongly than biological factors, medical care and lifestyle. The water we drink, the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the neighborhood we live in are all components of the environment that impact our health. Some estimates, based on morbidity and mortality statistics, indicate that the impact of the environment on health is as high as 80%. These impacts are particularly significant in urban areas like West Philadelphia. Over the last 20 years, the field of environmental health has matured and expanded to become one of the most comprehensive and humanly relevant disciplines in science.


        This course will examine not only the toxicity of physical agents, but also the effects on human health of lifestyle, social and economic factors, and the built environment. Topics include cancer clusters, water borne diseases, radon and lung cancer, lead poisoning, environmental tobacco smoke, respiratory diseases and obesity. Students will research the health impacts of classic industrial pollution case studies in the US. Class discussions will also include risk communication, community outreach and education, access to health care and impact on vulnerable populations. Each student will have the opportunity to focus on Public Health, Environmental Protection, Public Policy, and Environmental Education issues as they discuss approaches to mitigating environmental health risks.


        This honors seminar will consist of lectures, guest speakers, readings, student presentations, discussions, research, and community service. The students will have two small research assignments including an Environmental and Health Policy Analysis and an Industrial Pollution Case Study Analysis. Both assignments will include class presentations. The major research assignment for the course will be a problem-oriented research paper and presentation on a topic related to community-based environmental health selected by the student. In this paper, the student must also devise practical recommendations for the problem based on their research.


        Course number only
        406
        Cross listings
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          No

          ENVS399 - ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR FOR JUNIORS

          Status
          O
          Activity
          SEM
          Title (text only)
          ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR FOR JUNIORS
          Term session
          0
          Term
          2017A
          Subject area
          ENVS
          Section number only
          401
          Section ID
          ENVS399401
          Meeting times
          T 0130PM-0430PM
          Meeting location
          HAYDEN HALL 358
          Instructors
          ANDREWS, MARIA-ANTONIA
          Description
          This seminar is designed to help Juniors prepare for the Senior Thesis research. Topic selection, advisor identification, funding options, and basic research methods will be discussed.


          Course number only
          399
          Cross listings
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            No

            ENVS312 - RECITATION

            Status
            O
            Activity
            REC
            Title (text only)
            RECITATION
            Term session
            0
            Term
            2017A
            Subject area
            ENVS
            Section number only
            402
            Section ID
            ENVS312402
            Meeting times
            R 0430PM-0530PM
            Meeting location
            CHEMISTRY BUILDING 119
            Instructors
            MARINOV, IRINA
            Description
            This course covers the fundamentals of atmosphere and ocean dynamics, and aims to put these in the context of climate change in the 21st century. Large-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulation, the global energy balance, and the global energy balance, and the global hydrological cycle. We will introduce concepts of fluid dynamics and we will apply these to the vertical and horizontal motions in the atmosphere and ocean. Concepts covered include: hydrostatic law, buoyancy and convection, basic equations of fluid motions, Hadley and Ferrel cells in the atmosphere, thermohaline circulation, Sverdrup ocean flow, modes of climate variability (El-Nino, North Atlantic Oscillation, Southern Annular Mode). The course will incorporate student led discussions based on readings of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and recent literature on climate change. Aimed at undergraduate or graduate students who have no prior knowledge of meteorology or oceanography or training in fluid mechanics. Previous background in calculus and/or introductory physics is helpful. This is a general course which spans many subdisciplines (fluid mechanics, atmospheric science, oceanography, hydrology).


            Course number only
            312
            Cross listings
              Use local description
              No

              ENVS312 - OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE

              Status
              O
              Activity
              LEC
              Title (text only)
              OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE
              Term session
              0
              Term
              2017A
              Subject area
              ENVS
              Section number only
              401
              Section ID
              ENVS312401
              Meeting times
              T 0300PM-0600PM
              Meeting location
              HAYDEN HALL 360
              Instructors
              MARINOV, IRINA
              Description
              This course covers the fundamentals of atmosphere and ocean dynamics, and aims to put these in the context of climate change in the 21st century. Large-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulation, the global energy balance, and the global energy balance, and the global hydrological cycle. We will introduce concepts of fluid dynamics and we will apply these to the vertical and horizontal motions in the atmosphere and ocean. Concepts covered include: hydrostatic law, buoyancy and convection, basic equations of fluid motions, Hadley and Ferrel cells in the atmosphere, thermohaline circulation, Sverdrup ocean flow, modes of climate variability (El-Nino, North Atlantic Oscillation, Southern Annular Mode). The course will incorporate student led discussions based on readings of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and recent literature on climate change. Aimed at undergraduate or graduate students who have no prior knowledge of meteorology or oceanography or training in fluid mechanics. Previous background in calculus and/or introductory physics is helpful. This is a general course which spans many subdisciplines (fluid mechanics, atmospheric science, oceanography, hydrology).


              Course number only
              312
              Cross listings
                Use local description
                No

                ENVS246 - Spirituality in the Age of Global Warming

                Status
                O
                Activity
                SEM
                Title (text only)
                Spirituality in the Age of Global Warming
                Term session
                0
                Term
                2017A
                Subject area
                ENVS
                Section number only
                401
                Section ID
                ENVS246401
                Meeting times
                TR 0130PM-0300PM
                Meeting location
                WILLIAMS HALL 843
                Instructors
                POWELL, TIMOTHY
                Description
                We are living in the midst of one of the most severe crisis in the Earth's history. Science confirms the glaciers are melting, hurricanes are growing more intense, and the oceans are rising. But there is also a deeply spiritual dimension to global warming that does not factor into the scientific explanations. This part of the problem has been more powerfully expressed in film, literature, and art. We will be looking at films like Lee's "When the Levees Broke," about how the people of New Orleans turned to music and storytelling to rebuild their communities in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and Linda Hogan's novel, "Solar Storm" which explores how Native American women drw upon spirituality to heal their community after a dam flooded their ancestral homeland. The class will also work on an ongoing research project in partnership with th eCanadian government and Ojibwe First Nations who submitted a successful UNESCO World Heritage Site application to preserve the boreal forest and the Native people's traditional knowledge about their land. The class will be working on an interactive map to document how photographs, oral histories, and artwork helped convince UNESCO to preserve the land and the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of the people who have lived on that land for thousands of years.


                Course number only
                246
                Cross listings
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                  No

                  ENVS100 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR:HOW EARTH WORKS

                  Status
                  O
                  Activity
                  SEM
                  Title (text only)
                  FRESHMAN SEMINAR:HOW EARTH WORKS
                  Term session
                  0
                  Term
                  2017A
                  Subject area
                  ENVS
                  Section number only
                  301
                  Section ID
                  ENVS100301
                  Meeting times
                  M 1100AM-1230PM
                  Meeting location
                  VAN PELT LIBRARY 113
                  Instructors
                  PLANTE, ALAIN
                  Description
                  This course will explore the physical science of the Earth's environment and human interactions with it. Coverage will include the Earth's various environmental systems, various environmental problems, and the direct and indirect causes of these environmental problems.


                  Course number only
                  100
                  Cross listings
                    Use local description
                    No

                    ENVS100 - RECITATION

                    Status
                    O
                    Activity
                    REC
                    Title (text only)
                    RECITATION
                    Term session
                    0
                    Term
                    2017A
                    Subject area
                    ENVS
                    Section number only
                    207
                    Section ID
                    ENVS100207
                    Meeting times
                    R 1200PM-0100PM
                    Meeting location
                    VAN PELT LIBRARY 113
                    Instructors
                    COWARD, ELIZABETH
                    Description
                    This course will explore the physical science of the Earth's environment and human interactions with it. Coverage will include the Earth's various environmental systems, various environmental problems, and the direct and indirect causes of these environmental problems.


                    Course number only
                    100
                    Cross listings
                      Use local description
                      No