Instructors: Professor Bernie Engel, Professor Natalie Carroll and Dr. Akilah Martin
Class Schedule:
Monday 3:30 ABE 205
Wednesday 3:30 FS 1195 and ABE 205
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Date |
Topic |
Assignment for Next Week |
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Aug. 22 |
Introduction to Course and Software Rural Environmental Issues Hydrologic Cycle |
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Aug. 24 |
Hydrologic Cycle
Watersheds |
HW: Watersheds |
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Aug. 29 |
Introduction to |
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Aug. 31 |
Quiz - Ground Water Software, Hydrologic Cycle, Watersheds Estimating Runoff |
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Sept 5 |
No Class - Labor Day |
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Sept. 7 |
Estimating runoff - meet in FS 1195 |
HW: L-THIA Runoff HW HW: SedSpec HW |
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Sept 12 |
Quiz - Climate Change Carbon Sequestration |
Global Warming – handout Climate Change/Carbon Sequestration Slides |
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Sept 14 |
Carbon Sequestration Modeling – meet in FS 1195 |
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Sept. 19 |
Quiz – Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration Environmental Legislation and Regulation |
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Sept. 21 |
Water System Design - meet in ABE 205 |
R: New Environmental Legislation and Regulation powerpoint R: MWPS 14 |
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Sept. 26 |
NAPRA – Agricultural pesticide NPS pollution |
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Sept. 28 |
NAPRA – Agricultural pesticide NPS pollution – meet in FS 1195 |
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Oct. 3 |
NAPRA – Agricultural pesticide NPS pollution |
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Oct. 5 |
Water System Design |
HW: Water Quantity and Water System Design Problems |
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Oct. 7 |
DUE: Mid-term Paper by |
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Oct. 10 |
October Break (No Class) |
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Oct. 12 |
Water System Design Groundwater Quality; DRASTIC Wellhead Protection Optional: Indiana Pesticide State Management Plan |
R: DRASTIC Slides ; DRASTIC ppt |
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Oct. 17 |
NAPRA - fungicides GLEAMS/NAPRA - powerpoint |
HW: Term Project |
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Oct. 19 |
GLEAMS/NAPRA - Meet in FS 1195 |
Work on NAPRA |
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Oct. 24 |
Quiz |
O: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/envirosoft/ |
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Oct. 26 |
RWASTE - Rural Waste Disposal Design Software Farmstead Assessment Principles Meet in FS 1195 |
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Oct. 31 |
Farmstead Assessment Principles Fuel, Fertilizer and Pesticide Storage Regulations |
R: Soil and Geologic Condition (CAI) R: Fuel Storage (CAI and Assessment) |
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Nov. 2 |
Farm-A-Syst Module HWs – Meet in FS 1195 |
HW: Well Location and Condition Problem HW: Soil and Geologic Condition Problem |
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Nov. 7 |
HW: NAPRA Problems R: Livestock Waste (CAI and Assessment) R: Livestock Yards Management (CAI and Assessment) R: Milking Center (CAI and Assessment) |
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Nov. 9 |
Livestock
Waste Management Problem - meet in FS 1195 |
HW: Livestock Waste Management Problem - continued |
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Nov. 14 |
Quiz - Farm-A-Syst Modules: Well
location, Soil and Geologic, Fuel, Fertilizer, Pesticide Storage, Livestock
Waste, Livestock Yards, |
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Nov. 16 |
Work on livestock waste problem Meet in FS 1195 |
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Nov. 21 |
Wetlands |
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Nov. 23 |
Thanksgiving Break (No Class) |
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Nov. 28 |
Wetlands |
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Nov. 30 |
Soil Erosion |
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Dec. 5 |
Soil Erosion |
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Dec. 7 |
Soil Erosion Estimation |
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Dec. 12 |
DUE: Term Project |
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R: Required
HW: Homework
O: Optional
Most course materials will be provided by the instructor through links at this WWW page. The only book that is required is Midwest Plan Service 14 - Private Water Systems. Additional details on purchasing this book will be provided later (approximate cost $10).
Materials of possible interest:
Purdue Extension Water Quality
NRCS NEH 20 - Animal Waste Management Field Handbook
Water Quality Cooperative Extension Service Publications
FARM and FIELD A SYST Materials
National Environmental Publication Information Site (NEPI)
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
Agricultural Compliance Assistance Center
Impact of Agricultural Systems on Ground Water Quality
Office of the Indiana State Chemist
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Homework/Problems |
35% |
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Quizzes |
25% |
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Mid-term Paper |
10% |
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Term Project |
25% |
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Class Participation |
5% |
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100% |
20% deduction per day for late assignments
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A |
= >=90 |
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B |
= 80 - 90 |
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C |
= 70 - 80 |
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D |
= 60 - 70 |
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F |
< 60 |
Honesty requires that ideas, data, figures, tables, equations, process concepts, wording of explanations, or other forms of intellectual property of others must be fully acknowledged. The use of such property in reports and papers is acknowledged by citing the source (all of the authors, year, title, journal or other publication in which the information appeared, volume and number, editors if appropriate, [publishing house, city, state if the information is from a book], and beginning and ending page numbers of the publication). Property that is conveyed through a letter or other form of personal communication is to be indicated as such. Again, give the authors, year, title (if appropriate), and "Personal Communication".
The offering of materials assembled, collected, or created by others or reported by others in the form of projects, books or parts of books, periodicals, speeches, or the writings of other students as one's own is plagiarism. Dishonesty of any kind with respect to examinations, quizzes, or alterations of records is cheating.
Plagiarism and/or cheating is sufficient for an F. See the student handbook for University rules.
This statement was adapted from Professor Richard Feinberg, 1993, "Academic Honesty and Dishonesty," CSR Department, Purdue University.
Professor Bernie Engel
ABE Room 218
Phone: 494-1162
Email: mailto:engelb@ecn.purdue.edu
Professor Natalie Carroll
ABE Room 310
Email: ncarroll@purdue.edu
Dr. Akilah Martin
ABE Room 216
Email: armartin@purdue.edu