Multimedia Environmental Courses Introduction to Environmental Science/Brownfield Action 120 students, non-majors, for College lab science requirement Exploring the Poles First Year Seminar, non-majors Earth’s Environmental Systems Joint Barnard and Columbia Climate, Solid Earth, Life semesters Required for majors Hydrology and Environmental Data Analysis Electives for majors

interactive simulation of an investigation of a suspected contaminated land site very close to real-world scenarios students form environmental consulting companies have to operate within a given budget use interviews and various environmental testing strategies to pinpoint the source and type of contamination Report on the findings of their ‘company’

Exploring the Poles First Year Seminar Uses turn-of-the-century Arctic and Antarctic expeditions to explore leadership, teamwork, preparation, decisions under uncertainty role of the environment and environmental change Readings: first author, comparative analysis, novelized Fridtjof Nansen’s Farthest North Roland Huntford’s The Last Place on Earth (Amundsen and Scott) Alfred Lansing’s Endurance (Shackelton) Multimedia approach Simulated expedition teams On line journals

After 4 Years of Drift with Arctic Sea Ice Circle shows approximate southern limit of perennial sea ice Start

Earth’s Environmental Systems: Climate Developed jointly by Barnard and Columbia Required for Environmental Science, Environmental Biology and Environmental Policy majors Ca. 25 students/semester Deals with Atmosphere, Oceans, Biogeochemistry, Present, Past and Future Climates Team taught Web served Interactive, largely web-based lab Global databases

Cold Antarctic Bottom Water Warm Mediterranean Overflow Water South-North Temperature Transect Through the Atlantic Ocean Warm Tropical Water

South-North Salinity Transect Through the Atlantic Ocean Saline Mediterranean Overflow Water Fresh Antarctic Intermediate Water High Salinity Caused by Evaporation Under Subtropical Highs

Environmental Data Analysis - EESC BC 3017 Multidisciplinary approaches to environmental problem-solving Acquisition, analysis and presentation of real- time and historical environmental data Assessment of spatial and temporal variability Use of statistical software packages for analysis and display 3 main data sets (= projects): Atmospheric Ozone in NYC Outdoor particulate matter in NYC air Indoor air pollution

Ozone in NYC air

Hydrology EESC BC 3025 Discussion of the basic physical principles of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, stream flow, percolation, and groundwater flow), as well as environmentally relevant applications based on case studies. Studio approach, including Lectures Group discussions Classroom demonstrations Data analysis Field trips Laboratory excercises