Final Project Proposal

For your final project in this class, you will analyze an environmental issue of your choosing using approaches from the environmental humanities: i.e. film, poetry, visual arts (photography, painting, sculpture, screen printing, textiles, etc), history, philosophy, nature writing, fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essay, performance, or others.  Imagine you are communicating an environmental issue to the public (plastic pollution, for example). They’ve heard some reports on scientific data pertaining to the issue: measurements/calculations of tons of plastic in the ocean and impact on marine life population. Your job, however, is to draw on the humanities to further explore the complexities of this issue and communicate those elements to communities beyond the sciences.

This week, you will submit a proposal that outlines the environmental issue you have chosen to explore and the humanities-based approach or approaches you will use.  Your proposal will detail form that your final project will take, the reason you have selected these particular approaches, and the story your project will tell.

Proposal Requirements:

1. Your proposal should begin with a description of the environmental issue you have selected.  Why have you selected this issue?  Why is it interesting and important to you?  Next, your proposal should describe the environmental humanities approach or approaches you are going to use to analyze and communicate this issue to the public, and the reason you have chosen to use these approaches.  Why are these approaches well suited to thinking through this particular environmental issue?  This section should be at least 200 words.
2. Your proposal should also describe the form that your final project will take.  What will you submit at the end of the term?  How will you use these environmental humanities approaches to analyze the issue you selected?    This section should be at least 200 words.
3.  Finally, your proposal should describe the story your project will tell.  In other words: what message will you communicate with this project?  What do you want your audience to feel/understand/learn/do as a result of engaging with your project?   This section should be at least 200 words.

Lab Report Format

This Individual Lab Report format is required for all (6 in total) required laboratory investigations. All reports must be typed and include raw data from the investigation.

The General Lab Reports must contain the following:

· Student/Lab Identification

· Results and Raw Data

· Graphs

· Data Summary

· References

Student/Lab Identification The student identification should contain the lab name, date, student name and instructor name. Title should be centered and bold at the top of the first page of text.

Results and Raw Data This section should include a table of all data collected during investigation.

Graphs                                         Graphs are a tool, much as a calculator. They allow you to represent a lot of data in a very short space. Graphs allow you to analyze data in interesting ways, but graphs do not make an analysis.

Data Summary The data summary section should 1) show an understanding of the data, and 2) offer an analysis of the data that draws conclusions from the data, including the available quantitative (that is, the numerical) information that is in the table.  It will also be essential that you communicate this clearly to the reader. This part of the lab will be graded on how well these tasks are completed.  You should be careful to use all the data that you have collected in this summary!   Before you can do this, presenting the data properly in a table is essential to complete the task of understanding the data and making something of it, so it is important that earlier task be done well.  Also, to understand the data, it may be necessary to spend a little time on the Internet to get a little background on any aspects that you are not familiar with.  So these are  important aspects of the lab – to show that you have been able to organize information (your set of data) and then extract meaning from it.

Assignment Content

1. Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you explain the relationship between the ocean and the shoreline. Select and describe a naturally occurring ocean disaster that results from the relationship between weather and climate. Include the following in your paper:
   • What caused the natural event?
   • Would the effects of this event be any different if it occurred at a high or low tide? If so, how?
   • How does this event change the wave action of the ocean?
   • Which ocean currents–deep and surface–pass near or through the disaster impact area?
   • Is the disaster affected by surface or deep ocean currents? If so, how?
   • Explain how the ocean-atmosphere relationship influences weather and climate.
   • Rubric for the assignment:
     Week 4 Disaster Paper Rubric.pdf

     Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Reference a minimum of two outside sources, other than your text.

     Submit your assignment.
     Resources:

   • Center for Writing Excellence
   • Reference and Citation Generator
   • Grammar and Writing Guides
   • Learning Team Toolkit

This unit has assessed engineering principles applicable to industrial and hazardous waste management. Steps were evaluated for an adsorption system design using engineering principles and presenting engineering calculations for waste treatment.

The steps in the lesson were accomplished by the required reading of an article describing laboratory adsorption tests for lead and zinc removal. The lesson used the article’s data combined with engineering principles to design a prototype lead treatment system, and a required article presented a novel method for reducing leather tanning waste.

For this assignment, prepare a PowerPoint presentation that assesses engineering principles applicable to industrial and hazardous waste management by evaluating steps for an adsorption system design using engineering principles and presenting engineering calculations for waste treatment.

Specifically address the following items in your PowerPoint presentation.

• Provide a title and introduction.
• Summarize the Durga, Ramesh, Rose, and Muralidharan Required Unit Resources article.
• List the steps required for design of a prototype adsorption system.
• From Required Unit Resources, use the Yusuff and Olateju article’s equation (7) for the Radke-Prausnitz isotherm to evaluate qe for a Ce lead concentration of 10 mg/L. Show your calculation.
• Explain how your value of qe determined from the equation compares to the value in Yusuff and Olateju’s article exhibit 10a. Do you think there is an error in the equation? Explain.
• In the unit lesson, if the prototype’s wastewater flow is 500 gpd instead of 100 gpd and the influent lead concentration is still 10 mg/L, what would be the lead inflow rate in units of grams per day? Show your calculation.