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    Day 2: Friday 8.20.21

    Plan for today:
    1. Overview, review chapter 1: FR (links below)
    2. Big picture project-your goals
    3. iPads, Froggie book (time permitting)

    First, some clarity:
    This is "the frog book" only available now on the iPads:


    This is another text we'll be using, Friedland and Relyea, 3rd edition (note THIRD edition):
    Here's a link to chapter one, so you can do the homework over the weekend

    You might notice that the FR text is more detailed. The first two chapters of both this and the frog book (iBook) deal with defining environmental science, the scientific process and how APES covers many different topics.

    The FR text is divided into modules, with practice questions (PQ) at the end of each section and chapter questions (CP) at the end of each chapter. Your homework will often be the PQ during the week, and the larger CP over the weekend.

    These notes are all about context, what you can't get just from the textbook...

    FR Module 1 -------------

    Fracking-What is it? Why is it controversial? How has it changed how we generate electricity in our country? At what cost? Why is this politically important? Why are the solvents they use secret? What is the impact of these solvents on water? Who developed it around 1960? What did he later put all of his money into?

    Bio=life, so biotic means living, abiotic means not living (druids had a neat view on this)

    How systems are defined enables us to create models of cause and effect (favorite topic of physicists and historians as well)

    FR Module 2 ---------------

    Environmental indicators: what we know and can observe that indicate the condition of a system

    Ecosystem services: can be economic, direct or cascading (off shore oil for example, impacting fishing in the gulf of Mexico)


    Biodiversity is a key indicator (why?)



    These are the 5 challenges that you will deal with in this century. Knowing about them will enable you to impact change.

    It's all about you...

    More terms:

    Genetic diversity: variation in a population (could be age distribution in our class)

    Species: different in obvious ways (definitions vary on this)

    Species diversity: variation of species in a habitat (age distribution in the school or elab)

    Speciation: an adaptation based on stress

    Evolution needs three things:

    1. some form of genetic variation
    2. some stress that favors this variation
    3. survivors have to reproduce and carry on the variation
    Think of giraffes as an example:
    1. longer necks in some animals
    2. drought that kills all short neck creatures (just like in "land before time")
    3. long neck animals survive to reproduce and carry on the variation
    There is an interesting theory that the background rate of mutation/speciation was much higher long ago because our atmosphere was thinner, and enabled more cosmic rays to penetrate, causing much higher rates of mutation/speciation.
    Cool stuff:
    In England, butterflies have adapted since 1850 to look more like soot from coal fires.
    In NYC, a species of "subway mosquitoes" have been found that feed on humans in a dark, cool place
    Huh.

    Extinction is the opposite of speciation, where species die off.
    There is such a thing as a "background rate of extinction", which we have surpassed by many times
    Diversity is good: think of monoculture food crops: one pest kills everything.

    Food production: see Malthus and Norman Borlaug, e.g. Mexico famine (APHG?)

    Anthopogenic (anthro=man, genic=cause) Climate change:
    Greenhouse gases (see car windshield as an example)
    Not too many people know we need some CO2 on our planet to keep water above freezing-think of this as we search for exoplanets...
    Resource depletion is hard to grasp, but resource constraints are easier:
    If we had a major tsunami here that closed airports (all near the shore) and ports, how long would we have:
    • electricity?
    • water? (pumped by electricity)
    • food?
    Our key concept:
    energy->water->food->culture

    1. With energy you can move/purify water
    2. With water you can grow food
    3. With food you can maintain a culture

    Sustainability: Thinking of forever

    Click for full-size image
    Notice that these are not your usual "energy, food and water" items people think about.
    Sustainability is living within your means.
    Starbucks example...

    Ecological footprint: created by Jurgen Randers and Mathis Wackernagel (both here for the opening of this famed structure)
    1. energy
    2. settlements
    3. timber
    4. food
    5. seafood
    6. carbon
    7. built up land
    8. forests
    9. cropland
    10. fisheries
    What impacts your global footprint?

    Weekend Homework, Due Wednesday (yay!) 8.25.21:
    Read modules 1-3, complete the practice questions at the end of each module, email your answers.

    Cause and effect, email your answers:

    Why does the girl think her dad is an alien?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVRAtQ7XjkM

    What don’t we see between the kiss and him driving home?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7_slK24lXU

    Monty Python Witch scene:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii68tPIiZOo

    1. Can you follow cause and effect?
    2. What is their logical path?
    3. Why do folks associate fracking with earthquakes? (chapter one in the text)
    4. Why do folks associate fossil fuels with global heating?
    5. Who might be against this line of reasoning and why?



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