Welcome to the web site for...
Senior Seminar, ISP 4860
Section 001 (Bowen)
for the Winter 2011 Semester
Mondays at 6:00 PM in
195 Manoogian on the main WSU campus
Last updated: 4/20/11
This is the web site for the following section of ISP 4860 for the 2011 Semester:
- Section 001 CRN 25029,
Mondays at 6:00 PM in 195 Manoogian on the main
WSU campus with David Bowen as the Instructor.
- January 24 and 31 only: meet in UGL Instructional Lab C (Room 3150)
To print out PowerPoint notes while saving paper:
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Open file in PowerPoint
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Click on "File" menu item, then "Print..."
(For PowerPoint 2007, click on circle, then Print)
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On Print dialog, for "Print what:" choose "Handouts"
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Choose the slides per page that you want (I like 6),
then click "OK."
My office is 216 Physics Building. Here is a map.

Main headings for this site:
Instructor contact
information
Name: David Bowen
Winter 2011 Office
Hours:
- Mondays 5 to 6 PM in 195
Manoogian
- Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30 - 3:30 PM in 216 Physics
- Or call or email or set up an appointment
Campus address: 216 Physics / 666 West Hancock (southeast corner of Warren
and Anthony Wayne) / Wayne State University / Detroit, MI 48202
Home address:
4704 Elmhurst / Royal Oak, MI 48073
Email: d.r.bowen@wayne.edu
Telephone numbers:
- Campus: 313-577-1498
- Home: 248-549-8518
- Cell phone: 248-217-1316
- FAX: 313-577-3932
David Bowen's website
Interdisciplinary Studies Program
website
College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences website
Wayne State University
website
webmail.wayne.edu
Course documents, all are MS
Word or PowerPoint files
To print out PowerPoint notes while saving paper:
-
Open file in PowerPoint
-
Click on "File" menu item, then
"Print..."
(For PowerPoint 2007, click on circle, then Print)
-
On Print dialog, for "Print what:" choose
"Handouts"
-
Choose the slides per page that you want (I like 6),
then click "OK."
Online Tools
Other sites of
interest
Earth Monitoring for the public
Resources and Natural Systems
-
Plan B by
Lester R Brown - full text PDFs available on line, good for sustainability ideas
- Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment website
- The
value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital,
Robert Costanza et al (Science, 1997)
- IPCC - Integovernmental Panel on Climate
Change
- UNESCO water site
- World Resources Institute
- UN World Food Programme "Fighting
Hunger Worldwide"
- UN Division for Sustainable
Development
- UN-Water. Worldwide water site
associated with UN
- Narrated
slide show on water problems - CNN
- International Energy Agency
- The National Academies
(Science, Engineering, Medicine Research). The search widget is good.
- New York Times blogs
- GMO
modification for drought-resistance (New York Times, 10/23/08)
-
Fluffy
Toilet Paper and Forests (New York Times, 2/25/09)
-
Graphic
illustrating problems now was omitted from last year's IPCC Report
(New York Times, 2/26/09)
- Recycling
sewage (New York Times, 2/27/09)
-
US moves towards catch shares for managing large east-coast fishery
(New York Times, 4/8/09)
Human Systems: Population, Health, Economics
News
Governance
WSU Computer
support