• How knowledge about that ecosystem’s structure and function can help or has helped to develop plans for its restoration or management.

• How humans may have affected the cycling of matter in ecosystems, including effects to the nitrogen, phosphorus, or carbon cycle.

• The major structural and functional dynamics of your selected ecosystem.

Discuss the nuclear reactions within the reactor of a nuclear power plant? Contrast the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Da-Ichi incidents with respect to the cause of the incident and radiation levels measured after the incident.

Discuss the nuclear reactions within the reactor of a nuclear power plant?

Discuss why proper decontamination of victims is important.

Describe the key elements of a solid emergency response program.

 

You may choose to explore a very specific subtopic (e.g., how melting polar ice caps will affect the polar bear population), or you may choose to write a broader overview (e.g., a discussion about both sides of the climate change debate).

 

You may choose to explore a very specific subtopic (e.g., how melting polar ice caps will affect the polar bear population), or you may choose to write a broader overview (e.g., a discussion about both sides of the climate change debate).

Write a research paper on a major environmental law (e.g., RCRA, CERCLA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, TSCA, FIFRA, Energy Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, or any other that you would consider major). Your paper should discuss the following:

 

 

 why the law was enacted

 controversies pertaining to the act

how the act has affected you

 at least one lawsuit related to the act

 how the act has affected the economy

 

 how the act has impacted the environment