PREREQUISITES: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in BIO/GEOG/SUST 31.

SYLLABUS AND ASSIGNMENT INFORMATION: Click here to download a copy of the syllabus. Read it carefully. Students are required to understand the syllabus contents and are expected to abide by all course policies both on and off campus.

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OTHER HANDOUTS:

• Field Trip Authorization Form and Field Trip Preparation List

• Folder with Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for All Reagents Used in Lab

• Link to Bio/Geog/Sust 31L Contact List for Carpooling, etc...

COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS AND OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

The first day of class is ?. Any student who misses the first class will be dropped.

Laboratory/Field Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Intro to the Course and Process of Science Pre-Activity Slides

Intro to Methods and Measurement in Science Activity

Other Handouts:

• Laboratory and Field Activity Safety Rules - BRING TO EVERY CLASS MEETING

• Folder with Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for all reagents used in lab

• How Science Works Flowchart

Resources for Laboratory/Field Activities

Helpful Resources Throughout the Semester:

• How Science Works

• The Metric System and Metric Conversion Charts and Calculators

• Kinds of Data

• A Beginner's Guide to Graphing Data

• How to Calculate the Mean (Average)

• How to Calculate Percentages

• Scientific Notation Introduction

• Introduction to Significant Figures

Additional Resources

• Understanding Science: Peer Review

• Reproducibility and Replicability

• TEDEd: Not All Scientific Studies are Created Equal

• Epidemiology Study Types

• Evaluating Resources

• Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Literature

• Types of Scholarly Articles

• Statistics for Science

• Descriptive Versus Inferential Statistics

• Qualitative and Quantitative Data

• Statistical Testing for Dummies

• How Statistics can be Misleading

• More on Percentages

• Accuracy Versus Precision

• Graphing Data by Spreadsheet

• 5 Tips to Improve Your Critical Thinking

• How to Read a Scientific Paper

• How to (Seriously) Read a Scientific Paper

• Chemistry Libre: International System of Units

• Chemistry Libre Texts: Units and Conversions

• Why the Metric System Matters

• Metric System Simplified

• Developing and Using Models

• Avoiding Plagiarism

Laboratory/Field Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Recology Field Trip Worksheet

Map and Directions to Recology

Virtual Tour of the Transfer Station and Recycle Central

Resources for Laboratory/Field Activities

Required Reading BEFORE the Field Trip:

• Important Rules, Guidelines and Directions for Tour

Required Viewings BEFORE the Field Trip:

• Recology SF Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling Center

• Recology Plastic Bag Recycling

• This San Francisco Art Exhibit Takes Another Look at Trash

• Recology Recycle Central

Additional Resources

• Recology

• Recology Community Benefits Report 2018

• Jepson Prairie Organics

• Better at the Bin

• How Plastic Recycling Actually Works

• Building Resources

• SCRAP

• Recycling Tetra Pak Cartons

Check out many more resources posted at the Bio/Geog/Sust 31 Lifestyle Project webpage (scroll down to Rethinking Waste)

Laboratory/Field Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Environmental Monitoring in the Field Worksheet and Field Log

Map and Directions to Heron's Head Park

Resources for Laboratory/Field Activities

Required Reading BEFORE the Activity:

• Reread all of the instructions for instrument use from last week

• Laboratory and Field Activity Safety (Please reread especially guidelines for attire and field activity safety)

• Watch this slideshow of Heron's Head Park: Past and Present

• Check out the microbial results for positive and negative controls

Resources for Lab:

• SF Watersheds (Click on "Past and Present" tab) and Islais Creek Watershed

• Google Image of Heron's Head Park

• Tide Info for San Francisco Bay (choose Hunters Point)

• Oxygen Solubility, Temperature and Salinity

• Salinity Simulation for San Francisco Bay

• Instructions for the LaMotte Biopaddles (pages 2 & 3)

Spreadsheet with Environmental Monitoring Results from Field and Bacterial results

Additional Resources

• SF Port: Heron's Head Park

• Guide to Heron's Head Park

• Earth Rocks: San Francisco Bay

• SFPUC: OneWaterSF

• SFPUC: SF Urban Watersheds

• SFPUC Beach Water Quality

• SFPUC: Protecting and Preserving Our Environment

• SFPUC: Water Pollution Prevention

• California Water Quality Monitoring Council: My Water Quality

• SWRCB: Water Quality Report

• SWRCB: Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program

• SWAMP Guidance Compendium for Watershed Monitoring and Assessment

• Dept of Water Resources: California Data Exchange Center

• California Harmful Algal Blooms Portal

• EPA Nitrogen and Phosphorus Data Access Tool

• EWG Map of Toxic Algal Blooms

• USGS Water Data for the Nation and Water Quality

• USGS: Water Quality of San Francisco Bay

• Conservation International Freshwater Health Index

• United States Drought Monitor

• US Naval Hunters Point Shipyard

• GPS Coordinates Finder

• Windy.com

Laboratory/Field Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Habitat Restoration in the Presidio Worksheet and IMPORTANT information on and preparation for the field trip

Meet at the top of the steps of the beach near Mountain Lake Park Playground

Resources for Laboratory/Field Activities

Required Reading BEFORE the Tour:

• Presidio: Mountain Lake

Required Viewings BEFORE the Tour:

• Rebirth of Mountain Lake

• Removing Non-native Fish from Mountain Lake

Resources for Lab:

• CNPS Benefits of Native Plants

• CalScape and Las Pilitas Nursery for information on native plants

Additional Resources

• Presidio: Volunteer

• Videos About Mountain Lake Restoration

• Presidio Nursery

• Nature in the City Meetups

• California Floater Mussels Take Fish For an Epic Joy Ride

Laboratory/Field Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

One Tam Wildlife Picture Index Pre-Activity Slides

Cameras and Wildlife Monitoring Worksheet

Resources for Laboratory/Field Activities

Required Reading BEFORE Lab:

• One Tam Wildlife Picture Index Project main webpage

• MWPIP Wildlife Camera Home Page

• Marin Wildlife Picture Index Project FAQs

• MWPIP Volunteer Handbook

• MWPIP Volunteer User Guide to Cataloging

• MWPIP Data Use Policy

• MWPIP Volunteer Agreement

• Scroll through past photos from the project

Required Viewing BEFORE the activity:

• 24 Hours From Tam

• Measuring the Health of Mount Tam

Resources for Lab:

How Healthy are Mount Tam's Natural Resources?

Additional Resources

• CitizenScience.gov

• California Academy of Science: Citizen Science

• Citizen Science: Can Volunteers do Real Research?

• One Tam Resources and Downloads of Research

• One Tam: Facts and Figures

• Measuring the Health of the Mountain Report

• Volunteer for One Tam and One Tam Calendar

• iNaturalist Frequently Asked Questions

• City Nature Challenge

• Biodiversity at CCSF Ocean Campus

• Encyclopedia of Life

• eBird

• ZooUniverse Nature Projects

• WildCam Gorongosa

Recommended Viewings:

• TEDEd: Why is Biodiversity Important?

• Science Forward: Urban Ecology

• SciShow: The Awesome Power of Citizen Science

• Federal Crowdsourcing Seminar Series, Episode 1: Citizen Science

Laboratory/Field Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Alemany Farm Pre-Activity Slides

Urban Sustainable Farm Tour Worksheet

Map and Directions to Alemany Farm

Resources for Laboratory/Field Activities

Required Reading BEFORE the Tour:

• Check out the Alemany Farm website and read and follow instructions on "What to Bring" the day of the tour.

Required Viewing BEFORE the Tour:

• "Alemany Farm"

Additional Resources

• FAO Agroecology Hub

• Rodale Institute

• Garden for the Environment

• San Francisco Urban Agricultural Alliance Volunteer Calendar

Laboratory/Field Activities and Related Handouts and Resources

Air Pollution Pre-Activity Slides

Air Pollution Activity

Resources for Laboratory/Field Activities

Required Reading BEFORE Lab:

• Instructions for the Dräger Accuro Pump

• EPA Air Quality Guide for Ozone

Required Viewing BEFORE Lab:

• Using Dräger Tubes for Chemical Identification (watch until 14:10 minutes)

• How Air Pollution Impacts Your Body

Resources for Lab:

• Schönbein Color Scale

• Weather Channel: San Francisco

• Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter

• California Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS) and National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Ozone (scroll down the page)

• AirNow

• AirNow AQI to Concentration and Concentration to AQI Calculators

Additional Resources

• EPA: Air Topics and Clean Air Act Overview

• EPA: Air Data and Air Quality Trends

• EPA: Air Quality Monitors Map

• EPA Outdoor Air Quality Statistics

• EPA Criteria Air Pollutants NAAQS Table

• EPA: Basic Information about Ozone

• Health Effects of Air Pollution

• UCAR: Background on O3 and About Schoenbein Test Strips

• EPA: Particulate Matter Basics and Health and Environmental Effects

• CARB: Understanding Air Pollution

• CARB: Air Quality and Emissions

• CARB: Air Pollution and Health

• CARB: FAQs

• CARB: Ozone and Health

• CARB: Inhalable Particulate Matter and Health

• BAAQMD: Research and Data

• BAAQMD: Air Monitoring Data

• Spare the Air

• Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health

• SKC: Basics of Air Sampling

• Dräger Tubes and CMS Handbook