DR. REED A. SCHWIMMER                                                                                    SPRING  2008

 

 

INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE LAB

 

ENV–100L (Thursday, 2:20–5:20)

 

 

CONTACT INFO: Office: SCI-323E. Office hours: M, W, F 1:30–2:30. Other times may be scheduled by appointment or you can drop by to see if I am free. Phone number: (609) 896-5346.  E-mail address: rschwimmer@rider.edu.

TEXT: There is no required text for this course. Handouts and supplemental readings will instead be used throughout the semester. World Wide Web links to sites with interesting, relevant, and timely environmental science information are available through the DepartmentŐs Web site (http://www.rider.edu/172_1912.htm).

 

OBJECTIVES: This course compliments the lecture material by applying those concepts to real world situations and through data collection, analysis, and interpretation, the student will gain an understanding of how biological, chemical, and geological processes influence the surrounding physical environment.

 

E-MAIL: Your Rider e-mail account is your e-mail address for all official e-mail communications from the university. You are expected to check your Rider e-mail account on a frequent and consistent basis to stay current with university-related communications. Any e-mail from me about this course will only be sent to your official Rider e-mail address. Any communication from you to me must come from your Rider e-mail address.

EVALUATION: There is no separate lab grade. The average of the individual graded exercises comprises 25% of the course final grade (see separate lecture syllabus). Unless otherwise instructed, all assignments are due at the next class meeting. Late assignments will be penalized 10% per day. No extra-credit projects will be assigned.

 

Attendance is (of course!) required. If you miss a lab you will not be allowed to make it up unless you present a formal written documentation of your absence. If you miss the field component of an exercise, your grade will be reduced by 25%. If you miss a field trip that has no additional components, you will not receive credit for that exercise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAB SCHEDULE (dates of field trips may change due to facilitiesŐ schedules)

 

DATE                                              TOPIC

 

Jan     24                          Library Instruction

            31                          Environmental Issues on the Internet

Feb       7                          Watershed Mapping

            14                          Water Quality

            21                          Global Warming

            28                          NJ American Water – Drinking water facility (field trip)

Mar      6                          Population Demography (field trip)

            13                          Mercer Generating Station (field trip)

            20                          *** No Class ***

            27                          Soils, Ecologic Succession (field trip)

Apr      3                          Forest Diversity (field trip)

            10                          Wastewater Treatment plant (field trip)

            17                          Biological Stream Assessment Part I – data collection (field trip)

            24                          Stream Assessment Part II – data analysis