All required readings are accessible at the course BlackBoard site

This list will continue to be updated throughout the semester.

Mary Lou Zeeman Browse the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change website and become familiar with The Summary for Policy Makersof AR4 Syntehsis Report.
Jason Hamilton Lubchenco, J. 1998. Entering the century of the environment: A new social contract for science. Science 279: 491-496.

Palmer, M, Bernhardt, E. Chornesky, E.,Collins, S., Dobson, A., Duke, C. Gold, B. Jacobson,, R., Kingsland, S., Kranz R., Mappin, M., Martinez, M. L. Micheli, F., Morse, J., Pace, M., Pascual, M., Palumbi, S., Reichman, O. J., Simons, A., Townsend, A., Turner, M. 2005. Ecology for a crowded planet. Science 304: 1251-1252.

Zellman Warhaft

Warhaft, Z. 1998. Introduction to Thermal Fluid Engineering : The Engineer and the Atmosphere. Cambridge University Press: New York, NY. Chapter 1.

Browse the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change website some more and becomem famliar with the Summary for Policy Makers of Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis before lecture.

Art de Gatano Excerpts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change website. Read the the Summary for Policy Makers of Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis.

Review the FAQ.

Paul McEuen Pacala, S. and R. Socolow. 2004. Stabilization Wedges: solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies. Science 305: 969-972.
Per Pinstrup-Anderson "Still Hungry" by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng. Scientific American, Special Issue, September 2007, pp. 96-103
David Hammer TBA
Ross Welch

Welch, R. M., G. F. Combs Jr., and J. M. Duxbury. 1997. Toward a "greener" revolution. Issues in Science and Technology 14: 50-58.

Welch, R. M. and R. D. Graham. 2005. Agriculture: The real nexus for enhancing bioavailable micronutrients in food crops. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology 18: 299-307.

David Wolfe

Northeast Climate Impacts. Read the Executive Summary (pp. ix-xiii), chapters 1 (Our changing northeast climate), 4 (Impacts on forests) and 5 (Impacts on agriculture).

Rebecca Schneider TBA
Mark Milstein TBA
Dominic Frongillo TBA
Tim Fahey

Driscoll, C.T., G.B. Lawrence, A.J. Bulger, T.J. Butler, C.S. Cronan, C. Eagar, K.F. Lambert, G.E. Likens, J.L. Stoddard, K.C. Weathers. 2001. Acid Rain Revisited: advances in scientific understanding since the passage of the 1970 and 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. Hubbard Brook Research Foundation. Science Links Publication. Vol. 1, no.1.  Pages 7-14.

David McCobb TBA
Elan Shapiro TBA
Liz Walker TBA
Thomas Gilovich

Angier, N.  My God Problem.  Free Inquiry, Vol 24 pp 48-50.

Matthew Evangelista Summary and Introduction to Richard P. Cincotta, Robert Engelman, Danielle Anastasion, The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict after the Cold War (Washington, DC: Population Action International, 2003), pp. 12-19.

Tom Eisner

Use Media for Your Message: You and Your Friendly Science Journalist Have a Lot In common / Thomas Eisner / The Scientist, May 2, 1988, pp. 8-9

Andy Zepp TBA
Katy Payne Kareiva, P. 2008. Ominous Trends in Nature Recreation" PNAS vol 105 #8 2757-2758.
Harry Greene

Greene, H. W. 2005.  Organisms in nature as a central focus for biology.  TREE 20:  23-27.

Tom Eisner

Eisner, T. 1994. Chemical prospecting: A global imperative. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 138: 385-392.

Laura Harrington Rosenthal, E. 2007. As Earth warms up, tropical virus moves to Italy. NY Times. Dec. 23.
Steve Strogatz

Strogatz, S. Small World Networks. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, Chp.9 (Strogatz)

Kurt Gottfried Browse the Union of Concerned Scientists website.

Mary Lou Zeeman RTBA