Instructions Use "The Science behind the story" reading on pp264-265 in Withgott Chapter 12 to complete this assignment or other sources. You may use AI on this Assignment; state which AI you used and date of time of using it. See the Course Syllabus for the university AI statement that must be included in your submission. Background: You graduated from Tennessee Tech, moved to Kansas for a job, and were appointed to the Kansas Governor's Board of Water Policy for the State. You are one of five members. The underground aquifer underneath the surface of your state has been over pumped for irrigation of agricultural crops, cities, and industry. Wells are starting to run dry. The state's biggest city is growing so fast that more water is needed for the increasing urban population. Agricultural production is down. A 10 year long drought is affecting the state and other Plains states. Would you propose steps to increase supply, decrease demand? Mitigate or adapt to the impact of decreased water?
Assignment Directions Choose any landcover in America from the website (Dont use the same I attached) Part 1 (4 pts): write a brief description of your site generalize landcover / land use information from https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/enviroatlas/interactivemap/ characterize the site briefly - at least 2 metrics (eg, population density or economic makeup) source: https://data.census.gov/ source 2: https://enviroatlas.epa.gov/enviroatlas/interactivemap/ Part 2 (3 pts): identify trends in data for the following variables and make a graph for one or more: pH, NO3, SO2/SO4, NH4 find the data tab for your site (eg, for ntn-AB35 the link is as follows https://nadp.slh.wisc.edu/sites/ntn-AB35/), download weekly OR monthly data and open it in excel Dr Schmidt will go through tutorial of making a graph on 3/14 save Excel file for graph to be uploaded by 3/19 . Part 3 (3 pts) Add graph from Excel OR trend plot from NADP website for at least one variable. Make sure: X axis is labelled Y axis is labelled No chart title is provided . Part 4 (5 pts) 4: Answer: (a) when did pH, NO3, and/or SO2 (or SO4) hit their peak (focus on the variable you looked at)? (b) what has the trend looked like since? (c) what about NH4 (when did it hit it's peak if any; what has the trend looked like?) (d) Propose at least one reason for any of these trends based on your info in part 1. EC for post: Research the main impacts of acid rain in this general area particularly at the time it peaked. Find regional information online about how the locality and/or state has been dealing with acid rain, even if as instigated through the clean air act-- eg, utility incentives or renewable energy infrastructure If you have negative numbers in your data that is affecting your graph, you can simply erase the number (when you have the cell selected, press the "delete" button on your keyboard). However, if you are creating a line graph where each point is connected, this will break up your connected lines. You can deal with this by calculating the midpoint of the two adjacent points, or just change your graph to a scatterplot without the connections.
Research Assignment - Food Resources Follow the directions below and submit to the Canvas dropbox by the due date. Please follow the question/answer format as presented. Research and answer the following questions. Note: any directly quoted statements, information, or data need to be properly cited. Usage of AI (Chat GPT) is not allowed. Be aware of plagiarism and cite any sources that you may quote or closely paraphrase. Any assignments with Turnitin similarity scores that are considerably high will not be accepted for a grade, although be aware that copying over the assignment questions (which is OK to do) will increase the similarity score, although I will be on the look-out for that and will be considered if there is a "high" similarity score. This assignment concerns many of the topics covered in Units 2 (Climate Change) and 4 (Ecological Footprint) , that which you may use as reference along other with other useful sources on the internet or as included below. Complete your own work. Be aware of plagiarism and cite any sources that you may quote or closely paraphrase. Answer the following questions regarding food resources: 1) Using the below website, outline the basic categories of diets that are vegetarian or otherwise. Then describe your basic diet. Use the below link to categorize various types of diets where variations of animal-based products are in your diet, or do you primarily consume a meat diet? (4 points) https://vegetarian-nation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/vegetarian-levels-chart.jpg 2) List several of your favorite and common foods/dishes that you eat. I suggest, for the sake of organization, divide them into foods that are your favorites versus foods that you eat commonly. If your favorites are what you eat commonly that is OK to list those as either, but likely many of us aren’t always able to eat favorite foods all the time and many of our common foods we consume are out of convenience and/or cost. Just make a list in whatever fashion for the sake of this assignment. (4 points) 3) Concerning two of the foods/dishes you listed above, preferably one of your favorites and one of your common foods, provide an analysis of them from the standpoint of how they are produced and/or harvested, and its perceived impact toward sustainability, or not. Particularly address aspects of food production from Units 2 and 4, such as, a) country of origin/harvest/production, b) industrial agriculture versus locally grown/sourced, c) basic amount of resources (water and food/soil) to produce, d) genetically modified?, e) land impacted, and f) pest management issues?. (6 points) 4) Using either the seafood-watch-national-guide or seafood-watch-sushi-guide, select three (3) sea foods of any of the three (3) categories in any combination, and discuss why (be as specific as possible) they are considered "Best Choices, Good Alternatives, or Avoid". If one of your food choices from above (#3) is one of these seafoods, that may count as one of the three, but make sure you have commented on why they are one of the three categories. (6 points)
"I would appreciate your assistance in creating a poster and preparing a presentation for a topic titled 'How greenhouse gases caused global warming/cooling in Earth's past.' The instructions for the poster and presentation are provided in the document. The presentation should be at least 5 minutes long, and the poster requires at least 5 figures, with correct sizes(File type: can be PPT or PDF (note: it must be true 36x36, not scaling it to 36x36).)
Now, you are ready to draft a paper about soil and sustainable agriculture where you live, and your own plan for a 500-acre sustainable food production operation. In your essay, Describe the general area where you live (local community, county, etc.) by addressing the following: What are the characteristics of the soil? What is the composition (sand, silt, clay)? How well does it retain water? How fertile is the soil generally? What are the seasons like? How much precipitation (rain and snow) do you get annually, and how is it distributed throughout the year? Discuss agricultural production in your community: What crops are being grown? What production methods are being used? Is irrigation necessary? Are there any greenhouses or other indoor food production operations in your area? Are there any organic or other sustainable agriculture operations within 50 or 100 miles of your location? Create a plan, based on the conditions in your area, for a sustainable food production operation that addresses the following questions: How will you divide up the 500 acres between at least four different sustainable food production methods? Why is each method suitable to your local area and conditions? Which foods will you produce and what methods will you utilize for each one? You should conduct research on sustainable food production systems, and you can also use information from the Week 2 Properties of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory.
essay to address the following:- What are the adaptation challenges that the climate crisis poses to cities? How are cities going about planning for these challenges? Describe the different scenarios or ‘imaginaries’ that characterize these different approaches. Is Boston taking climate risks seriously enough? Can we continue business-as-usual in the city over the next few decades, or will we need more drastic measures? What are the limits of using models and translating everything into financial terms? How might we price risk more accurately to create the right incentives? Who should pay for climate adaptation and how? Could we use this as an opportunity to reshape the city and address other challenges, such as inequality?
Please write the question and highlight or underline your answer. As you do these homework assignments, and reading each chapter, you are preparing for quizzes and exams. Double-space between answer and the start of next question. Please number them the same number they are assigned above. 1. What are the two characteristics of contaminants in environmental toxicology that need to be considered? 2. List the three broad areas to be considered when assessing fate and transport of a chemical. 3. Define advection, diffusion, and dispersion as contaminant transport methods. 4. Contrast the effects of advection versus diffusion and dispersion on contaminant transport. 5. Define and describe LRAT. 6. What are SVOCs? What is cold-trapping? 7. Describe the terms global distillation and grasshopper effect. 8. What is global fractionation? 9. Define and describe persistence. What are the major mechanisms through which persistence is affected? 10. What are POPs? What are PBTs? List the defining features of each group. 11. What is the REACH criteria for persistence? 12. Define and give an example of biotransport. 13. What is a degradate? How does it compare to the parent chemical? 14. Describe the role hydrolysis reactions play in degradation. 15. Describe photolysis. How is it involved in decontamination? 16. Explain the box model method. What are the three additional assumptions? 17. What factors does a critical thinker need to consider when using the box model? 18. Define fugacity. Of what importance it is? 19. What is body burden? Define bioconcentration and biomagnification, and do not ever confuse the two. 20. Explain an example of maternal transfer of body burden. 21. Define bioavailability. 22. Describe two bioavailability assessment techniques. 23. How does speciation of a metal factor in the bioavailability of the metal occur? 24. Explain FIAM. 25. How can AVS and SEM predict toxicity? 26. What major ideas are presented in the summary section of this chapter?
Discuss each of your five specific environmental footprint reduction actions or habits and give an update on what progress was made between Week 1 and the end of Week 2 for each item. If you experienced challenges along the way, identify them and map out a plan to move closer toward that original goal, if possible. If, after some time, an action does not seem like it will work, then you can choose a new action to replace it. Explain your learning from the 2nd week of class. What are three new concepts or terms that you learned about? How has your outlook on soil, agriculture, and food systems changed because of this new knowledge? What topics might you be interested in learning more about in the future? Look ahead to Week 3, where we will be examining issues related to water including water pollution, water availability, runoff, conserving water, and storm water management. Discuss some ways that these new topics might intersect with what you learned this week about soil and agriculture. How do the subjects of agriculture and water management impact each other? The Environmental Footprint Report and Reflections on New Learning, Week 2 journal, must be at least 2 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Styleas outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word
Now, you are ready to draft a paper about soil and sustainable agriculture where you live (Fort Lauderdale Florida) and your own plan for a 500-acre sustainable food production operation. In your essay, Describe the general area where you live (local community, county, etc.) by addressing the following: What are the characteristics of the soil? What is the composition (sand, silt, clay)? How well does it retain water? How fertile is the soil generally? What are the seasons like? How much precipitation (rain and snow) do you get annually, and how is it distributed throughout the year? Discuss agricultural production in your community: What crops are being grown? What production methods are being used? Is irrigation necessary? Are there any greenhouses or other indoor food production operations in your area? Are there any organic or other sustainable agriculture operations within 50 or 100 miles of your location? Create a plan, based on the conditions in your area, for a sustainable food production operation that addresses the following questions: How will you divide up the 500 acres between at least four different sustainable food production methods? Why is each method suitable to your local area and conditions? Which foods will you produce and what methods will you utilize for each one? You should conduct research on sustainable food production systems, and you can also use information from the Week 2 Properties of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory. The Properties of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Laboratory Follow-Up Assignment essay, must be 2 to 4 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word must include a separate title page with the following in title case: title of essay in bold font Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page. student’s name name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus) course name and number instructor’s name due date must utilize academic voice. Refer to the Academic Voiceresource for additional guidance. must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper. For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions and Writing a Thesis Statemen refer to the Writing Center resources. must use at least one scholarly source, one credible source, and the course text, for three sources. The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source. To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, review this Quick and Easy Library Research tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
