Melanie Waite-Altringer

Melanie Waite-Altringer Environmental Science Lecture

Anoka-Ramsey Community College

Biology 1103

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. “

-- My First Summer in the Sierra , by John Muir 1911, page 110.

General Links:

13th edition textbook

14th edition textbook - Cunningham

Poster presentation photos

Ecological Footprint

Minnesota Counties

Deformed Frog Photos

Periodic Table II

Minnesota DNR Website

US Fish & Wildlife Service

MN dept of Agriculture

George Perkins Marsh

Malthus and Marx

Wangari Maathai

Air Quality Links:

MPCA air quality

Air now.gov (map)

World air quality map

Popcorn lung e-cigs

TRI (toxic release inventory)

EPA TRI facility lists US

Sherco Power (TRI)

CO2 levels - world

CO2 levels vs temp

MN coal power emissions

Mercury emissions-coal

Mercury in MN - tip

Minamata disease - video

Ozone hole size (2) (current readings)

light pollution 2

Greenhouse gases

Environmental Activism:

Protected Species and Land Links:

Butterfly- Luna video

Telephone pole hug

PETA- animal activism

Endangered Species

endangered species fines

First species listed on ESA

Great Gray Owl-MN

All owls in MN sounds II

Wilderness Areas, II

Wildlife Refuges

African Photo Safaris

African Trophy Hunts

Isle Royale info data

Isle Royale map

Isle Royale 2003

Wolf Management -MN

Conventional Energy Links:

Superfund Site & Hazardous Waste Links:

Sustainable Energy Links:

WY coal mine-PRB

Sherco Plant (Becker)

Flint Hills/Koch Refinery map

Nuclear reactors

Nuclear Reactors worldwide

Nuclear reactor cores

NEI- Nuke plants US map

ANWR (wikipedia)

Chernobyl 25 yrs after- pics

Fire water from fracking

Fracking video- biased

Gulf of Mexico oil wells

Bakken Formation

Exxon Valdez 25 years after

National Priority List

What's in my neighborhood?

NPL totals - summary

MN Superfund sites II

E-waste - overseas

Superfund mapper

Haubenschild farm

Haubenschild farm photos

US anaerobic digesters

Rosendale Farms map

Biogas facilities

Landfill gas to energy

Waste to energy

pop bottle light II

CSP Solar Fields pics

Solar Power MN(II)(III)

NorthStar solar info

MSP airport solar array

Smart Power Strips

Buffalo Ridge & South East-MN windmill photos

Photo Windmills- Oregon

Windmills California

Prairie Star Wind Farm

Windpower stats

Windmill install

Windmill technician

Biofuel-oil seed crop

EverCat Fuels story II

Earth Sheltered Homes

Farming Links:

ANDi the green monkey, II

Glofish 12GMO examples

GMO shoppers guide

Seed Saver (facebook)

National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation - Fort Collins, CO

Svalbard global seed vault

Pesticides and produce

Forest Fragmentation

Nitrogen fixating plants

Miscanthus giganteus

USDA certified organic II

Organic farm list - USDA

fish farms: feedlots of the sea

fish farm pictures

red lobster menu

The ocean aire restaraunt

Monterey Bay fish cards

Seafood Health Alerts

Organic Apple Orchard - MN

Hilltop pastures farm

wind & ATV erosion

Lake Orono -Reservoir

Strip & Contour farming- MN

Strip/contour farming SE MN - map

plows: chisel

Environmental Practices Links:

Water Links:

EPA recycling - states

US state recycling - best and worst

Decomposition time of products

Recycling -green living

Plastic Recycling #'s

Anoka County Recycling

Isanti County Recycling

Recycling Organics

No waste holiday gifts

Mississippi Delta (2)

Water Quality (TMDL)

MPCA impaired water list

Home water conservation

Water Consumption Calculator

Toilet- dual flush capacity

Tapped trailer (2)

Ogallala Aquifer

Lake Erie - Algal blooms

Lake Erie is Dead

Pfiesteria Algae1, 2, 3,4

Blue Green Algae

Great Pacific Garbage Patch ABC news

Swans- Central MN river (Lady) map

Panama canal map

Red Lake River Erosion- Crookston, MN

Cattle & streambank erosion

Crookston Flood 2006

Barrier Islands (2)

Wolffia Columbiana

Lake Superior barrels II

Thermal shock MN

Population Links:

Invasive Species Links:

World Fact Book-CIA

Geography IQ webpage

Richest/Poorest Countries

What's your count?

current US population count

Rich Poor Division

Most Billionaires - Country

China's One Child Policy

China's population density map

Total fertility rate trends

Population growth over the years

Country land acreage

USFWS- Boxscore of endangered species

Illegal trapping MN

Wolf compensation trust

Grizzly compensation trust

Defenders of Wildlife

shark finning video

snow geese regulations

Endangered species products

Rhino horn kills

DNR list of Invasives in MN

Invasive Kudzu vine

Gypsy Moth trap

Feral pigs 2 3 4

MN Invasive Species

Zebra Mussels in Lake Mille Lacs

Extra Links:

Biome Links:

Slums of Sierra Leone & rice paddies of India

West Nile Virus-map USGS maps

Tsetse fly distribution

Wolf hybrid laws

Bubonic plague II

Spring Break 2003 Wyoming

Grizzly Gulch Fire: Deadwood, SD Summer 2002

What the ...?

Flat Earth Society II

Michelle Bachman - CO2

Species Interactions

Ice Ball 2015 Will Steger

Beneficial Insect study 2014 and Living sustainably

Beaver drop - 8:34

Borneo cat drop

Chytrid Fungus - Frog collection

Desert Fox Arctic Fox

permafrost thaw

Cool cloud forests

Mountain/Alpine tundra

Boreal Forests/Taiga

Boreal forest map

Temperate Rainforest map

Short grass Prairie

Prairie distribution US

Prairie plant roots

tamarack bog

Last revised on 05/01/2018

Comments should go to: melanie.waite-altringer@anokaramsey.edu

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Melanie Waite-Altringer, Biology Faculty
Anoka-Ramsey Community College, 11200 Mississippi Blvd. NW, Coon Rapids, MN 55433

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