Sept. 22 Oral Presentations

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS

• Environmental News Network
  Author/Affiliation: Environmental News Network
  Annotation: The Environmental News Network was created to inform the public on occurring environmental news. E.N.N. is updated periodically with news articles, and articles from affiliated websites. The website follows an easily formatted layout; conveniently located tabs on the top of the page are categorized into different genres, creating an easy service for users to navigate their way to the information needed. The section “partners,” provides users with information to outer sources and recommended websites. Each website is concerned with a specific topic, and doing our part to make a difference. CEO of E.N.N. Lawrence Norton explains, “We Publish information that will help people understand and communicate the environmental issues and solutions that face us and hopefully inspire them to get involved.” [Rhiannon H]

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Tucson Environmental Organizations
  Author/Affiliation: ABRA Information Manager and Webglimpse Search Software.
  Annotation: There are numerous websites concerning environmental organizations but obviously the ones present in Tucson are more relative for our information. This website comprises links to the most efficient organizations in Tucson. Here you may find several organizations that may grab your attention and that even near to where you live. The website not only focuses on certain topics but is amenable to topics such as: Construction and Design, Energy and Environment, Environmental and Ecological etc… It also receives questions people might have and it allows the public to comment on each and every organization it covers. [Jano E]

ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCIES

• EPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency
  Author/Affiliation: Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, EPA Environmental Agency
  Annotation: This website is very efficient because it contains articles and links to many answers to many of your questions about your state or regions environmental policies. Also a very efficient search program to look up news about your area or just general science news. Links to sites about “How you can get involved” also the opportunity to leave your opinion on new and upcoming regulations. [Jose R]

TUCSON ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION

• Environmental Services
  Affiliation:  City of Tucson
  Annotation: The importance of local environmental awareness is essential to the preservation of both the natural resources in Tucson, as well as the protection of our unique landscape. This site provides information relating to both residential and commercial recycling programs, as well as numerous links to relevant local environmental news updates. The site offers a great amount of recycling information including all services that the Tucson Recycles program provides. This site promotes a “green” way of living through its effort to educate its readers on the proper disposal of garbage in our city, while at the same time providing reliable links for global environmental awareness. [Kevin H]

SCIENCE

• Science Daily
  Author/Affiliation: ScienceDaily LLC, Dan and Michelle Hogan (Founders)
  Annotation: This website contains information about science, anything from Space to Plants is included in this website. Subjects are organized in a clear and distinct manner. The pictures are clear and help give us a better understanding about subject matters discussed. This website can be seen as a credible source of information, because of all the advertisements and updating that occurs at this website. Most if not all information can be easily accessed online, as well as the opportunity to give feedback. [Alla F]

PLATE TECTONICS

• A Science Odyssey: Plate Tectonics
  Author/Affiliation: PBS
  Annotation: This site is full of easily understandable information, pictures, and even an activity to get a more hands on idea. It covers the introduction of plate tectonics, the sea floor spread, the continental slide, and the continental crush. It also has a related people and discover section. At first it seemed a little childish, but I think that its the best because of its approach to a younger audience, but its full of great information for everyone. Finally, it has links to everything you could ever need to know about plate tectonics, and its easy to get around the website. [Cheri D]

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION

DESERT ECOLOGY

CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT (CAP)

• Central Arizona Project: Water for Arizona’s Municipal and Agriculture Needs
  Author/Affiliation: Central Arizona Project
  Annotation: This site contains information about the Central Arizona Project. This project is the reason the most Arizona’s communities are still up and running today. The CAP water is spread out across Arizona providing for everybody in some way. A good site to go look at if you are curious about, where our water does come from and how it is protected. Every body worries about if we are going to run out of water and what will happen. This was constructed for that purpose to provide the extra water the community needs. The Cap project will provide Arizona with water for years to come. [Grant D]

WATER USE/CONSERVATION

• Water-Use It Wisely
  Author/Affiliation: Park & Company/Park Howell
  Annotation: The site explains how important it is to conserve water in the United States. There are lists of one hundred ways to save water based on any one of four regions of the United States. The site is very educational and is a good source of information for anyone wanting to know about water conservation. The site offers useful links to additional information and also displays a self audit chart for water use in the home. There are also useful links to the latest in technology for water conservation at home. [Akil R]

FRESHWATER POLLUTION

• CEH School Net - Freshwater Pollution
  Author/Affiliation: ©2001 - NERC's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. All Rights Reserved.
  Annotation: This is a very informational and useful website due to the fact that it states and describes three main types and reasons of water pollution and informs you about both of them in detail. The types of pollutions it describes are heat, organic, and chemical pollutions, and also, information on water pollution itself. Then, it has links for related topics to help your research even further on in case you needed to find out more background information on what it is you are looking up. [Darrin W]

MARINE POLLUTION

• Ocean Pollution Title of Site: Clean Ocean Action: Be the Solution to Ocean Pollution
  Author/Affiliation: Earth Share of New Jersey
  Annotation: Clean Ocean Action is a very resourceful site for two reasons: it gives you the information on ocean pollution and it also tells you, the reader, how to help stop it. The “Issues & Campaigns” tab opens up a menu with a list of different types of ocean pollution. The one that I found most interesting was “Non-point Source Pollution”, because this is something that everyone can help prevent. Each of the different types of pollution has a definition and case that goes with it as well as figures and reports of how they have impacted the ocean environment. The site does a good job of identifying the problem of ocean pollution and how we can help prevent it. [Lucas S]

HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH/CONTROL

• Human Population-Global Issues
  Author/Affiliation: Anup Shah- Human Population - www.globalissues.org
  Annotation: This website gives factual and statistical information on the human population and growth in the world. It covers the effects of the growing population such as food shortages, resource shortages and wars, environmental impact, famine and poverty, and population statistics. There are also many additional links and a list of related topics and articles on the right margin. This website not only gives population information, but relevant information to many causes and effects of the rapidly increasing numbers. [Joseph T]

EVOLUTION

• Wikipedia
  Author/Affiliation: Wikipedia.org
  Annotation: This site has a lot of information and covers a lot of aspects of evolution. All the way from the very definition to the many areas such as Hereditary, variation, Mechanisms and the overall outcome and how it affects us even today. This site also has many different links and sources for information. All of these sources provide the same and even more information then Wikipedia. Wikipedia also uses images to show how evolution can affect some species over millions of years. The site also talked about evolutionally thought and who came up with the theory. [Julian S]

SOIL

• What On Earth Is Soil?
  Author/Affiliation: The United States Environmental Protection Agency
  Annotation: What is soil? Is there a problem? Can we help? The EPA’s goal with this website is to answer the public’s questions. They raise awareness of how soil affects inhabitants of earth, along with how our choices impact the soil. The importance of soil is shown from many levels, including from the level of mice, the level of our homes and schools, and the global level. There are ample activities for students and educators alike; these activities are for both in the classroom and in the community. It is a fun site that is easy to navigate and you are assured to learn something new. [Janet R]

WORLD FOOD RESOURCES

• Global Change Program
  Author/Affiliation: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  Annotation: This website provides not only provides information on World Food Resources but answers 4 major questions when it comes to World Food Supply. The 4 questions are: Is the world food supply keeping pace with population growth? What are the means of increasing the world’s food supply? How much can we increase the world’s food supply? And what are the limits to the world’s food supply? This site also provides the availability of productive land, and how it head towards improved agriculture. [Rojelio R]

BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

• Biodiversity 911 on the Web
  Author/Affiliation: World Wildlife Fund
  Annotation: This website walks the reader through the back round and concerns about biodiversity. The website really goes into detail about the decline in biodiversity. One main point is that the more living areas that we create the habitable area for other living things on Earth declines. This is obviously not the only issue that is causing this decline. Another example is over fishing which is causing fish numbers to decline, eventually leading to their extinction, thus lowering the amount of biodiversity on Earth. This website also contains a lot of links to museums where you can get information about what biodiversity is. [James M]

ENDANGERED SPECIES

• Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Online Education Resource
  Author/Affiliation: Craig Kasnoff / Craig Kasnoff Multimedia Company
  Annotation: This site covers a wide range of animals that are endangered throughout the world. There are several links on the site to other organizations that help raise awareness about endangered species. There are several pages of content and excellent video of animals in the wild and a classroom page for children to learn more about the environment as well as endangered species. [Rob L]

INTRODUCED SPECIES

• Invasive Species
  Author/Affiliation: Conservation Science Institute
  Annotation: This site covers how many species get moved form place to place and become invaders. The websites also talks about the top one hundred worst species to become mobile and over populates the new environment it has been introduced to. What make’s this site believable are the many references it has to produce the information. [Katherine M]

THEORY OF ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY

• Biogeography - Island Biogeography
  Author/Affiliation: Nearctica
  Annotation: This site explains the theory of island biogeography and how it originated. This site defines island biogeography with easily understandable graphs that show the differences between size and location and important information discovered about island biogeography. It explains the impact distance and size make on the number of species an island has. The information given is supported by observational and experimental data which is given in links. This site also has a link page to learn more information about the theory of island biogeography. [Chelsea E]

ENERGY USE/CONSERVATION

• [Meghan C]

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES

• Energy Resources
  Author/Affiliation: Andy Darvill, Science teacher at Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College, Weston-super-Mare, England
  Annotation: This site covers many aspects of Alternative Energy Sources. Since this site was actually made for students from a college in England, It features the main alternative resources and goes in depth with each one. Each resource page in includes a brief introduction to the resource, a “How it works” section and finally a video clip to get viewers a visual aid and ultimately creates a better understanding of why it is an alternative resource. The web site has an easy way of navigating it because its format includes tabs on the left side of the page. These allow you to navigate through the most important alternative resources. Another great addition to this web site is that in each resource description page the publisher includes a couple of more links to different videos; as well as, more information on that specific resource. [Claudia A]

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

• Environmental Economics. Economists on Environmental and Natural Resources: News, Opinion, and Analysis
  Author/Affiliation: Tim Haab/Ohio State University and John Whitehead/Appalachian State University
  Annotation: This site covers a wide area of information about environmental problems, and environmental economics. Surfing around the web page I found a lot of articles related to environmental economics organized by categories and dates. People can post their own opinions about each article and open discussions about the topics. Occasionally the creators use humor to present the different topics and proposals. It has a list of guests (most of them professors from prestigious universities) and a link to their web pages where we can find information about environmental economics. It also has links to movies, books, plays, and different ways of entertainment web pages related to environmental problems. This is a really complete, interesting and fun web page. [Melanie A]

AIR POLLUTION

• Air Pollution Causes
  Author/Affiliation: Tom Socha. He is professor at the University of Iowa
  Annotation: The website serves many basics needed to learn about air pollution. It gives a small history on the causes. Then it gives information on the different types of pollution and the different chemicals that most pollution has in it. The website ends giving the readers that pollution isn’t only damaging the atmosphere and humans but also the plants that live all around us needed to survive. This website is good because it has links to websites that give more details about pollution and also websites that have the different cause of air pollution. [Danny J]

OZONE DEPLETION

• Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Tutorial
  Author/Affiliation: Brien Sparling. Chemistry Teacher. Live Oak High School. Morgan Hill. California. 95037
  Annotation: This website was put together by NASA, it is known as the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division. This division of NASA works mainly with a supercomputer which allows for pictures of the ozone as well as possible scenario models as well. The address I have given is a page within their education area. Mr. Sparling writes a nice summary of the history and general background on the ozone depletion happening to our planet. Within the page as well as the article, there are live links to other resources that a person may want to explore. You can get visual as well as statistical data from these links. [Yvonne H]

ACID DEPOSITION

• What is Acid Rain? I Acid Rain I US EPA
  Author/Affiliation: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  Annotation: This website has multiple links, images, and information about acid rain and how it effects the environment. It gives information on how to help stop acid deposition and how it is affecting your own area. To better understand the information given, this website includes a glossary defining most words used through out the site. This website also contains a link for kids to play and explore the effects of acid rain through games and interactive stories. [Kristina E]

GLOBAL WARMING

• Climate Change
  Author/Affiliation: Environmental Protection Agency
  Annotation: This site is very easy to use because it has a handy directory right on the side of the home page. It covers a lot of information starting from what Global Warming is and what is being done to reduce it. Also includes what the average person can do to help stop the problem. There is also a directory for related links which is very convenient. [David G]

SOLID WASTE

• Wastes
  Author/Affiliation: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  Annotation: This site contains much needed information about wastes. It acknowledges the different kinds of hazardous wastes and how to dispose of them properly. It says how to conserve, decrease, reuses, etc., waste in places such as your home, office, community and much more [Candice A]

RECYCLING

• [Jamila P]

PUBLIC LANDS

• Waste Water Treatment Plant process at Roger Road Plant
• Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard