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. |
| 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 |