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  • ENVS 507: Wetlands

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Willig. Offered through CGS - See current timetable. The course focuses on the natural history of different wetland types including climate, geology, and,hydrology factors that influence wetland development Associated soil, vegetation, and wildlife characteristics and key ecological processes will be covered as well. Lectures will be supplemented with weekend wetland types, ranging from tidal salt marshes to non-tidal marshes, swamps, and glacial bogs in order to provide field experience in wetland identification, characterization, and functional assessment. Outside speakers will discuss issues in wetland seed bank ecology, federal regulation, and mitigation. Students will present a short paper on the ecology of a wetland animal and a longer term paper on a selected wetland topic. Readings from the text, assorted journal papers, government technical documents, and book excerpts will provide a broad overview of the multifaceted field of wetland study.
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  • ENVS 530: Rocky Mountain Field Geology and Ecology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Giegengack/Bordeaux. Field work is done in and around Red Lodge, Montana. An additional fee for Room and Board applies. Permission of the Instructor is required for non- MES students. Offered through CGS - See current timetable. Designed for the MES program (open to non-MES students by permission of the instructor). This is a two-week intensive field course in the geology, natural history, and ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which comprises a range of environments from the mile-high semi-deserts of intermontane basins to the alpine tundra of the Beartooth Plateau above 12,000 feet. The program is based at the Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association (YBRA) field station on the northeast flank of the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, Montana. The course includes day trips from the field station as well as overnight visits to sites within Yellowstone National Park. Pre-trip classes will be held online before the trip to ensure that all students are adequately familiar with basic principles of field-based natural science.
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  • ENVS 533: Research Methods in Environmental Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Bordeaux. This course is designed to prepare Master of Environmental Studies students to undertake their Capstone exercises. In this course, we discuss how to identify an appropriate research project, how to design a research plan, and how to prepare a detailed proposal. Each student should enter the course with a preliminary research plan and should have identified an advisor. By the end of the course, each student is expected to have a completed Capstone proposal that has been reviewed and approved by his/her advisor.
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  • ENVS 541: Modeling Geographical Objects

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Tomlin. This course offers a broad and practical introduction to the acquisition, storage, retrieval, maintenance, use, and presentation of digital cartographic data with both image and drawing based geographic information systems (GIS) for a variety of environmental science, planning, and management applications. Its major objectives are to provide the training necessary to make productive use of at least two well known software packages, and to establish the conceptual foundation on which to build further skills and knowledge in late practice.
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  • ENVS 575: Environmental Imaginaries

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hufford. Behind struggles over resource use and patterns of development are collective fictions that relate people to their material surroundings. "Environmental imaginaries" refers to the contending discourses that arrange society around processes of development and change. What are the Cartesian fictions that enable the chronic separation of culture from environment How are these fictions produced, enacted, and materialized in such diverse sites as Appalachian strip mines, Sea World, nature talks, and permit hearings How might alternative ways of knowing and being be conjured through naming practices, narratives, and other speech genres, as well as yardscapes, protest rallies and other forms of public display Drawing on theories of worldmaking and ethnographic works on culture and environment, this seminar examines the production of Cartesian-based environmental imaginaries and their alternatives across a range of such genres and practices.
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  • ENVS 580: Ecology of Health

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Sheehan. Movements of people and populations in various historic periods have led to the introduction of diseases new to a population. The colonial period, for example, witnessed the introduction of smallpox to the Americas by European colonizers, resulting in the decimation of indigenous populations. Accompanying changes in agricultural practices, ecological destruction, and changes introduced by war, development, and trade often led to altered habitat, diet, and disease patterns that threatened both colonizers and the colonized. Today, rapid and easy movement of individuals and goods around the globe, as well as new technologies, continued status inequality between rich and poor nations, and sociopolitical conflicts, have created a condition of new, emergent, and reemerging diseases. In addition, the ability of microbes to alter in response to changed environments make identification and control of disease-causing agents a challenge to medical science. This course will focus on the social, political, and economic sources and ramifications of world-wide disease patterns. Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, tuberculosis, and AIDS will be examined. Ecological changes and new technologies, often alter food resources, productive activities, and the environment resulting in new disease patterns; one example is arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh brought about by deeply bored wells. The The activities of national and international organizations to cope with disease outbreaks, to formulate strategies for disease surveillance and notification, and to create solutions are important to understanding the state of global health. Selected case studies will be used, placing them within a framework of sociological analysis of health and disease, medical research, poverty and disease, as well as national and international organizational and policy responses.
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  • ENVS 601: Proseminar:Contemporary Issues in Environmental Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Pfefferkorn & Gill. Offered through CGS - See current timetable. A detailed, comprehensive investigation of selected environmental problems. This is the first course taken by students entering the Master of Environmental Studies Program.
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  • ENVS 604: Conservation and Land Management

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Harper. Some Saturday field trips will be required. Using protected lands in the Delaware Valley, this field-based course will explore various strategies for open-space conservation and protection. In addition, students will be introduced to land management techniques used on such sites to restore or preserve land trust proerties in accordace with goals set for their use or protection.Sustainable land uses such as community supported agriculture, ecovillages, and permaculture design will be covered. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills in "Reading the Landscape" to determine conservation and restoration priorities. Students will produce a site assessment report on sites that they visit.
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  • ENVS 608: Geology & Ecology of the Isle of Arran,Scotland

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Giegengack and Bordeaux. Prerequisite(s): An introductory Geology or Ecology course would be helpful. MES Summer Course. The Isle of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, might very well be called the birthplace of modern Geology. James Hutton, Scottish Physician and gentleman farmer, conceived of the concept of Uniformitarianism, while wandering about the Isle of Arran. Hutton's Theory of the Earth laid down this concept, which later became one of the foundation principles of modern geology and earned him the appellation "Father of Modern Geology". The island offers a wide variety of rock types and geological events that has drawn geologists and students from around the globe to this tiny island. The position of the Isle of Arran off the west coast of Scotland, places it close to the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, allowing for a much milder and wetter climate than might be expected from the island's latitude. The distribution and types of plants and animals found on the island are a direct consequence of this milder and wetter climate. The proximity to ocean waters also gives the class a chance to examine near shore marine environments. ENVS 688 is a two-week intensive field course in the geology, natural history, ecology, and culture of the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Pre-trip classes will be held online before the trip to ensure that all students are adequately familiar with basic principles of field-based natural science. Students will then meet in Glasgow and travel together to the Isle of Arran where they will be based for the duration of the two weeks. Students will participate in a number of field exercises that include: mapping of dikes, examination of raised beaches (causes and consequences), cave formation, and modern landscape formation based on underlying geology. The types of plants and animals found on the island will be examined in light of their position on the island and the underlying geology. Students will map floral distributions as part of a multi-day exercise, examine the red deer population and the effects of interbreeding with an introduced Japanese Sika deer, and the possible consequences of reintroducing the wolf. Students will also examine ancient standing stones, stone circles, runrig agricultural practice's effects on modern landscapes, and tour Brodick Castle as part of the cultural aspect of the course. Guest lectures from local historians are also planned.
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  • ENVS 610: Regional Field Ecology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Willig. Offered through CGS - See current timetable. Some Saturday field trips required. Over the course of six Saturday field trips, we will travel from the barrier islands along the Atlantic Ocean in southern New Jersey to the Pocono Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania, visiting representative sites of the diverse landscapes in the region along the way. At each site we will study and consider interactions between geology, topography, hydrology, soils, vegetation, wildlife, and disturbance. Students will summarize field trip data in a weekly site report. Evening class meetings will provide the opportunity to review field trips and reports and preview upcoming trips. Six all-day Saturday field trips are required.
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