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Have you looked at Dan Botkin & Ed Keller (1995) "Environmental Science:
Earth As a Living Planet?"   Were I still teaching, it is one I would try!
Many of the study questions could lead to good field projects.



At 09:13 AM 3/27/98 -0600, Brown, Gordon wrote:
>Hello Colleagues:
>
>    Here at the College of St. Benedict & St. John's University (MN) we are
>in the process of designing a two-semester course for environmental studies
>students that will integrate biology, chemistry, and geology with a focus on
>applying them to environmental questions. The course will be taken by both
>natural science majors and non-majors that are enrolled in our environmental
>studies minor. We want all of these students to be exposed to a fairly rigorous
>classroom and laboratory (field & lab) experience that illustrates the
>application of the scientific process to environmental questions.
>    Right now we are in the process of searching for an appropriate text or
>texts that cover this material in an integrative manner. The standard
>environmental science texts are too basic for our needs. We were wondering if
>others who have taught or are currently teaching such an interdisciplinary
>environmental science course have suggestions on texts (or combinations of
>texts) that have been used successfully (or unsuccessfully). We have found a
>couple of candidates, but they tend to be more slanted towards an engineering
>viewpoint than we would like.
>    If you have suggestions and comments, please respond directly to me. If
>I get a good list, I will post it on Ecolog for others who might be interested.
>
>Thanks for you help!
>Gordie Brown
>dgbrown@csbsju.edu
>
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>Gordon Brown
>Department of Biology
>College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
>Collegeville, MN 56321
>(320) 363-3175
>(320) 363-3202 [FAX]
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