March 9, 2010 GEOG3330-UrbanEnvironmentalGeography

UPDATE … mid-course changes … immediate and longer term..

Immediate:

HW13 – PHASE 1 of an atlas for “your urban setting”

Date extended and expectations lowered.

Keep working on applying labs to your urban setting… and content will be on the midterm. So… study for the midterm. Let me know if this change in any way disrupts you… because it is meant to help you. Your collection of labs, applications to “your urban setting” and an introductory section (LINK not active yet) will be due April 7. It’s okay to revise your applications to your urban setting until April 7^th. After that, we’re on to the second phase of the Atlas and no more revisions of phase 1.

PHASE 2 -- atlas of Urban Environmental Geography

Big Changes. Instead of group presentations of hydrologic settings of urban areas, I’m going to present them. Therefore there’s a bunch of changes in assignments. No group presentations. Seven sessions presenting hydrologic settings. One “oops” pass, meaning, the six highest of the seven assignments will count toward your grade.

Why these changes?

PURPOSE OF GEOG3600-Urban Environmental Geography

1. Understand Earth systems setting of any urban setting anywhere.

a. Understand the setting in terms of subsystems of Earth systems.

b. Test of understanding: explain pathways of pollutants from communities.

i. Why? Pathways of groundwater contaminants reflect interactions of subsystems of Earth systems.

ii. If you understand and can explain contaminant flow, you understand the community’s urban environmental geography.

2. Explore physical and biological sciences (Geog3330 meets GenEd Science Exploration distribution)

a. Labs

b. Big Science Concepts

c. Apply to a place or places.

LINK to revised MIDTERM EXAM EXPECTATIONS.

LINK to revised SYLLABUS; and revised SCHEDULE