Welcome to ENVS 250Introduction to Environmental

Science

With your host, Dr. Kleier

Please add to your syllabus:

http://academic.regis.edu/ckleier/

Population

• Malthus• Ehrich• Hardin

The Story of Easter Island

Environmental Science is Multi-disciplinary

Environmental Science ≠ Environmentalism

Environmental scientists try

to answer questions using the scientific method

Scientific Method

• Make observations

• Ask questions

• Develop a hypothesis

• Make predictions  

• Test the predictions

• Analyze and interpret results

About testing• Experiment

• Manipulating variables– Independent – Dependent

• Control vs. treatment

• Controlled

• Correlation– Observational study– Natural study

Ways to test hypotheses

www.Myfootprint.org

Sustainability