University at Albany Environmental Science Paper

Post ID: 2480036

Overview

Use “SCIENCE DAILY” Studies provided below and choose 3 studies from 1 topic (or articles about studies) based on scientific research/study on the environmental science topic you are interested in such as climate change, endangered species in general, one specific endangered species (such as the Sumatran tiger) overuse of antibiotics in agriculture, water pollution etc. If you want to choose your own topic with studies not provided below, email to get approval with Prof. Doyle first.

2. Read all the studies/articles

3. Find and read the "Journal Reference" found at the bottom of the article about the study. There should be a link that may or may not require a subscription to view all or part of the full scientific study. Here is an example of what one should look like:

Journal Reference:

- - J. T. Erbaugh, N. Pradhan, J. Adams, J. A. Oldekop, A. Agrawal, D. Brockington, R. Pritchard, A. Chhatre. Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2020; DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01282-2

4. Write paper summarizing the studies (900-1000 words) following the format below:

The paper must follow this structure for full credit. You will receive full credit if you have all the components using your own words.

Please do not copy any words, paraphrase. If you want to quote, please only one small sentence at most and use quotation marks. I will be scanning docs for originality of content. Your paper should be in 5 sections (1 or more paragraphs per section) as outlined below. MLA

1. INTRO- introduce topic and explain why you chose this this topic. State the complete names of the 3 articles you chose. (10 POINTS)

2. STUDY 1-

State the name of the 1st study/article who conducted it and describe the main points of the 1^st study/article,

-how did they conduct the study and

-what were the conclusions (15 POINTS)

-Is this study reliable science, unreliable science or tentative science AND WHY (was it conducted by a reliable science institution such as a university or medical center (state the name of the institution), was it published in a peer reviewed journal (state the name of the peer reviewed journal, not sciendedaily)? (5 POINTS)

3. STUDY 2-

State the name of the 2nd study/article, who conducted it and describe the main points of the 2nd study/article

-how did they conduct the study and

-what were the conclusions (15 POINTS)

-Is this study reliable science, unreliable science or tentative science AND WHY? (was it conducted by a reliable science institution such as a university or medical center (state the name of the institution), was it published in a peer reviewed journal (state the name of the peer reviewed journal, not sciendedaily)? (5 POINTS)

4. STUDY 3-

State the name of the study/ 3rd article, who conducted it and describe the main points of the 3rd study/article

-how did they conduct the study and

-what were the conclusions (15 POINTS)

-is this study reliable science, unreliable science or tentative science AND WHY (was it conducted by a reliable science institution such as a university or medical center (state the name of the institution), was it published in a peer reviewed journal (state the name of the peer reviewed journal, not sciendedaily)(5 POINTS)

5. CONCLUSION-

What are the similarities between these studies/articles? (5 POINTS)

What are the differences between these studies/articles? (5 POINTS)

What is your conclusion about the subject after doing this research? What changes (if any) do you believe should be made to regulations/ activities etc based on what you learned from the information in studies? (15 POINTS)

6. REFERENCES -links to articles used in paper-(5pts)

Topics

Pick one topic for your paper and 3 studies/articles for the paper from that one topic

Climate Change

World's ocean is losing its 'memory' under global warmingUsing future projections from the latest generation of Earth System Models, a recent study found that most of the world's ocean is steadily losing its year-to-year memory under global warming.ScienceDaily