EVSC 494 Undergraduate Seminar Spring 2005

 

This is a one credit, pass/fail course. Grades are based on attendance. Students are expected to attend all seminars. Students will be allowed to miss one seminar. Missing more than one seminar will result in a no credit grade. At the end of each lecture attendance is determined by each student turning in a question pertaining to that week's seminar along with their student identification number. This assignment is signed and pledged every week.

 

January 25   Introduction/Organization

 

February 1    Opporutnities in undergraduate research: McKnight and Manis

 

February 8    Dr. Robert Finkleman, Medical Geology

 

February 15 John Murphy, Stream Watch Albemarle

 

February 22 Dr. Mireya Imaz, Federal Conservation Efforts in Mexico

 

March 1         Dr. Grant Goodell, Supervolcanoes

 

March 8         Spring Break

 

March 15       Michel Cescas, Agricultural pollution

 

March 22       Sally Thomas, Albemarle County Board of Supervisors

 

March 29       Robert Wichser, Rivanna Water and Waste Water, “Rivaana Water Authority's Long Term Community Water Supply” and Bruce Edmonds, Rivanna Solid Waste Authority, “Recycling and the Consumer Culture”

 

April 5            Clement Tingley, Home Builders Association of Virginia and Neil Williamson, Free Enterprise Forum, “Timberwood –The potential impact of regulation on design options”

 

April 12          Harrison Rew, TJ Planning District Commission, “The New Regionalism: Linking Transportation, Land Use, Economy, and Environment”

 

April 19          Joe Lerch, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

 

April 26          Cale Jaffe, Southern Environmental Law Center, "Blowin' In The Wind:  Transboundary Air Pollution and the Opportunity for Clean Air Advocacy on a Regional Scale"