Colloquium in Environmental Toxicology
Env Tox/Entomol/Pl Path/Soil
Sci/AHABS/Wl Ecol 606:
Colloquium in Environmental
Toxicology
(Fall semester, 2003; Instructor:
Joel A. Pedersen)
PLACE: 104 Van Hise TIME: Alternate
Tuesdays, 4:35-5:50 p.m.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:
FINAL EXAM WILL BE HELD IN
RUSSELL LABS 184
Course Resources:
Syllabus and course instructions
Sample Exam
(from Fall, 1999; covers different topics than current semester)
Lecture Schedule
09/02 Global
warming: What can we expect?
Dr. Steve Vavrus, Associate Scientist,
Center for Climatic Research, UW–Madison
09/16 Human
Behavioral Ecology: A framework for understanding ecological
challenges in the 21st century
Dr. David J. Zaber, Research Division, UW–Madison Arboretum
09/30 Global
environmental policy and politics
Dr.
Clark A. Miller, Assistant Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs,
UW–Madison
Slides Handout
10/14 Climate change and the waters of Wisconsin
Dr.
John J. Magnuson, Professor Emeritus, Zoology and Center for Limnology,
UW–Madison
10/28 Chronic
wasting disease and its impacts on Wisconsin
Dr.
Julie Langenberg, Wildlife Veterinarian, WI Department of Natural Resources
11/11 Zoonotic
diseases: Anthrax, rabies, monkeypox and TSEs
Dr. Jim
Kazmierczak, State Public Health Veterinarian, WI Division of Public Health
11/25 Health
effects of arsenic-contaminated drinking water
Dr. Lynda
Knobeloch, Research Scientist Supervisor, WI Department of Health and Family
Services
Arsenic
Slides Methyl
Mercury Slides Arsenic
Handout
12/09 Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Dr.
Mark Wegner, Chief, Communicable Disease Epidemiology Section, WI Division of Public Health
Contacts:
INSTRUCTOR:
Joel A. Pedersen
joelpedersen@wisc.edu
Telephone: 608/263-4971
ENVIRONMENTAL
TOXICOLOGY CENTER
uwetox@facstaff.wisc.edu
(submit exam questions to this address)