[PDF] Environmental Science Laboratory eBook

Author : C. Lee Rockett
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biology
ISBN : 9780534178093

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Designed to use a minimum of sophisticated equipment and organized like G. Tyler Miller's Environmental science (but also suitable for use with his Living in the environment or Sustaining the Earth), it includes conventional laboratory exercises, workbook type exercises, and projects. Covers biology, zoology, soil, noise, water, energy.

Author : Travis P. Wagner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1119462592

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Historically viewed as a sub-discipline of biology or ecology, environmental science has quickly grown into its own interdisciplinary field; grounded in natural sciences with branches in technology and the social science, today’s environmental science seeks to understand the human impacts on the Earth and develop solutions that incorporate economic, ethical, planning, and policy thinking. This lab manual incorporates the field’s broad variety of perspectives and disciplines to provide a comprehensive introduction to the everyday practice of environmental science. Hands-on laboratory activities incorporate practical techniques, analysis, and written communication in order to mimic the real-world workflow of an environmental scientist. This updated edition includes a renewed focus on problem solving, and offers more balanced coverage of the field’s diverse topics of interest including air pollution, urban ecology, solid waste, energy consumption, soil identification, water quality assessment, and more, with a clear emphasis on the scientific method. While labs focus on the individual, readers are encouraged to extrapolate to assess effects on their campus, community, state, country, and the world.

Author : Travis P. Wagner
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780471671916

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? Utilizes innovative learning techniques, such as problem-based, active, and critical learning. Group and cohort paths to knowledge are encouraged. As part of this approach, the authors stress student-initiated inquiry and experimentation as well as emphasizing civic responsibility in environmental science. ? Develops a variety of topics that mirrors the a variety of subjects found in environmental science, including urban ecology, global impacts, air pollution, solid waste, energy consumption, soils identification, water quality assessment, and the scientific method. ? Encourages students to grasp the big picture by relating the lab activity to real life conditions and their individual contribution to environmental problems. We have individual measures and descriptions, but we also nurture application of this learning to the larger ecological picture. ? Develops a variety of techniques that include traditional laboratory activities, field exercises, Internet research, calculations/extrapolations, and critical analysis. Because the pursuit of real-world environmental science involves all these components, so do the lab activities found in Wagner. ? Emphasizes the improvement of written and other forms of communication. So much of science has become participatory, particularly in making decisions about its application ( i.e. environmental policy). ? Contains relevant problem sets that can be used as labs, lab supplements, or as homework assignments (for courses w/out a lab) for environmental science lectures.