Topic Name Description
File UES 150 Fall 2020 Syllabus
Week 1 URL Moodle Tour
URL Syllabus overview
URL Record Your Intro Video

Follow the link to our flipgrid page to record your intro video! Watch others from your class so we can get to know each other. 

Note: it won’t show until I “approve” it (security feature) so don’t worry if it doesn’t immediately show in the feed

URL Schedule Meeting with Prof Parker

Please select a time for us to meet and get to know each other. Use this link to select a time and I will send you a follow up email with a microsoft teams appointment. If you need an appointment outside of these times please let me know!

File Ch 1
URL Ecological Footprint Notes

After the video, I realized that this table has been updated in your current textbook and we are now only allowed 1.5 hectares (not 1.8). An even greater ecological overshoot! 

URL IPAT model notes
File ch03
URL Ecology definitions notes
URL Photosynthesis/Cellular Respiration Notes
Week 2 File ch04
URL Ch 4 notes - carbon cycle
URL Ch 4 notes - nitrogen and phosphorus
URL Ch 4 notes - seasons
URL Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone 2020
URL Dead Zone Animation

Note: there is no sound for the video

URL Quiz 1

You only have one attempt at this quiz. Do not open the quiz link until you have completed all the week’s materials.

Per BSC Honor Code, you are not to use any notes, books, electronic devices, internet searches, etc to complete this quiz. 



URL Hubbard Brook LTER

Hubbard Brook is part of the LTER site program. It is an incredible source of long term ecological data. 

Week 3 File ch05
URL Ch 5 notes - J versus S curve
URL Chapter 5 notes - density dependent/independent factors
URL Chapter 5 notes - reproductive strategies
File Alien Invader Article - Nat Geo
File Invasive Species Fact Sheet
Week 4 File ch16
URL Invasive v. Native
URL Characteristics of endangered spp
URL Con bio terms
File Alien Invader Article - Nat Geo (copy)
Week 5 URL Exam Review Meeting
Week 6 File ch13
URL Freshwater Terminology
URL Floodplain and Runoff
URL USGS Stream Data
URL Dams
URL Southeast Freshwater Extinction Crisis
URL Fish Ladder
File ch21
URL Sex Lives of Freshwater Mussels
URL Water Wars
URL Tri-State Water Wars
Week 7 File AL Biodiversity
URL Quiz 4
URL Final Project Discussion Sign Up Sheet

Use the google doc to sign up for a time to meet and discuss your final project. This is a check in meeting to evaluate your progress, for me to ask questions, and to make a plan to complete the project. This meeting will be graded on your progress and knowledge of your topic. 

Week 8 File ch08
URL Human Population and K
URL Fertility Rate and Population Pyramids
File ch09
File ch18
URL Aquaculture Discussion
Week 9 URL Exam 2 Review
File ch10
File ch11
URL Energy Presentation Sign Up Sheet

Use this link to indicate what renewable energy source you are interested in researching for presentations next week. Choices include hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, or nuclear. You can also examine a subset of this power such as electric vehicles, large scale battery power, universities using sustainable energy or other options. I’m really open to ideas so let me know if you have any questions. More than one person can have the same topic. 

Week 11 File ch20
URL Quiz 5
Week 12 URL Student Course Evaluations Fall 2020
URL Extra Credit Quiz