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Stephens, Scott
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:24am.Name of Person:
Scott Stephens
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Department:
ESPM, Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Scott Stephens is interested in the interactions of wildland fire and ecosystems. This includes how prehistoric fires once interacted with ecosystems, how current wildland fires are affecting ecosystems, and how future fires and management may change this interaction. He is also interested in wildland fire policy and how it can be improved to meet the challenges of the next decades. How fire will be affected by climate change is a new area of research.
Roderick, George
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 10:59am.Name of Person:
George Roderick
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
Of particular interest are two interrelated topics: the biology and genetics of biological invasions, and the history and structure of populations. Both topics are viewed especially in the context of biodiversity science.
Merchant, Carolyn
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:44pm.Name of Person:
Carolyn Merchant
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
As Professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics, Carolyn Merchant conducts research on these three topics and their interrelationships. She focuses on American environmental and cultural history in the overall context of Western history, philosophy, and the history of science.
Fairfax, Sally
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 2:30pm.Name of Person:
Sally Fairfax
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
Sally Fairfax's research has always focused on public resources, principally those managed by the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Within that broad topic, her interests include legal aspects of resource administration, agency history and culture as it affects management decisions, and the relationship between federal and state governments.
Amundson, Ron
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 1:05pm.Name of Person:
Ron Amundson
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
The thin veneer of soil that mantles the earth's surface is an active participant in the world's geochemical cycles and can, if buried, act as a store of information about the earth's past. Ron Amundson's laboratory studies these processes and problems using stable and radiogenic isotope geochemistry.
Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics
Submitted by cmjones on March 13, 2007 - 1:06pm.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
250
Course Title:
Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics
Instructor:
Merchant
Description:
A critical survey of classical
and recent literature in the field of environmental history, philosophy, and ethics, with special emphasis on
the American environment.
Topics will include environmental historiography, theories of environmental history, and the relationships between environmental history, philosophy,
ethics, ecology, and policy
Units:
4
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Graduate
The American Forest: Its Ecology, History, and Representation
Submitted by cmjones on March 9, 2007 - 12:23pm.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
C191
Course Title:
The American Forest: Its Ecology, History, and Representation
Instructor:
Lovell, McBride
Description:
The American forest will be
examined in terms of its ecology, history, and representations in paintings,
photographs, and literary essays. This examination seeks to understand the
American forest in its scientific and economic parameters, as well as the historic,
social, and ideological dimensions which have contributed to the evolution of
our present attitudes toward the forest
Units:
4
Offered:
Fall and Spring
Course Type:
Undergraduate
American Environmental and Cultural History
Submitted by cmjones on March 8, 2007 - 12:44pm.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
160AC
Course Title:
American Environmental and Cultural History
Instructor:
Merchant
Description:
History of the American
environment and the ways in which different cultural groups have perceived,
used, managed, and conserved it from colonial times to the present. Cultures
include American Indians and European and African Americans. Natural resources
development includes gathering-hunting-fishing; farming, mining, ranching,
forestry, and urbanization. Changes in attitudes and behaviors toward nature
and past and present conservation and environmental movements are also
examined
Units:
4
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Undergraduate
Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands
Submitted by cmjones on March 8, 2007 - 11:45am.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
C107
Course Title:
Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands
Description:
Natural
history and evolutionary biology of island terrestrial and freshwater
organisms, and of marine organisms in the coral reef and lagoon systems will
be studied, and the geomorphology of volcanic islands, coral reefs, and reef
islands will be discussed. Features of island biogeography will be
illustrated with topics linked to subsequent field studies on the island of
Moorea (French Polynesia).
Units:
13
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Undergraduate
Natural History of Insects
Submitted by cmjones on March 7, 2007 - 2:51pm.Department:
ESPM
Course Number:
42
Course Title:
Natural History of Insects
Instructor:
Gillespie, Roderick
Description:
An outline of the main facts and
principles of biology as illustrated by insects, with special emphasis on
their relations to plants and animals, including humans
Units:
2
Offered:
Spring
Course Type:
Undergraduate