Texts and Other References for Environmental Physics:

Books:

• Energy; Its Physical Impact on the Environment D.W. Devins (John Wiley and Sons, 1982).
• Consider a Spherical Cow by John Harte (University Science Books, 1988).
• Energy and Problems of a Technical Society J. J. Kraushaar and R. A. Ristinen (ohn Wiley and Sons, 1993).
• Power Surge, Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution by C. Flavin and N. Lenssen (W.W. Norton and Company, 1994).
• Energy, Physics and the Environment by E.L. McFarland, J.L. Hunt and J.L. Campbell (Wuerz Publishing, 1994).
• Environmental Physics by E. Boeker and R. van  Grondelle (John Wiley and Sons, 1995).
• Global Warming Selected Reprints ed. J. Firor (AAPT Press, 1995).
• Energy, Its Use and the Environment by R.A. Hinrichs (Saunders College Publishing, 1996).
• Global Environmental Change by Karl K. Turekian (Prentice Hall, 1996).
  
• Charging Ahead; The Business of Renewable Energy and What it Means for America by J. J. Berger (U. California Press, 1998).
• Beyond Growth, The Economics of Sustainable Development by H. E Daly (Becon Press, 1996).
• Energies, An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization by Vaclav Smil (MIT Press, 1999).
• Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health, and Technological Problem Solving by D. M. Kammen and D. M. Hassenzal (Princeton University Press, 1999).
• The consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices by M. Brower and W. Leon (Three Rivers Press, 1999).
• Something New Under the Sun, An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World by J. R. mcNeill (W. W. Norton Company, 2000).
• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History by B. Fagan (Basic Books, 2000).
• Global Warming: The Science of Climate Change by F. Drake (Arnold Books, 2000).
• The Two Mile Time Machine; Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future by R. B Alley (Princeton University Press, 2000).
• Renewable Energy: Its physics, engineering, environmental impacts, economics and planning by Bent Sorensen (Academic Press 2000).
• Dynamic Climatology, Basis in Mathematics and Physics by J. N. Rayner (Blackwell Publishers, 2001).
• Environmental Physics by Clare Smith (Routledge Press, 2001).
• Introduction to Envirnomental Physics Planet Earth, Life and Climate N. Mason and P. Hughes (Taylor and Francis, 2001).
• Principles of Environmental Physics J. L. Monteith and M. Unsworth (Buterworth Heinemann, 2001).
• Consider a Cylindrical Cow by John Harte (University Science Books, 2001).
• Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by K. S. Deffeyes (Princton University Press, 2001).
• Risk-Benefit Analysis by R. Wilson and E. A. C. Crouch (Harvard University Press, 2001).
• The Future of Life by E. O. Wilson (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
• Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises (National Acadamy Press, 2002).
• Green Plastics by E. S. Stevens (Princeton University Press, 2002).  This book contains recipies for making your own organic plastics.
• The Energy Resources and Economics Workbook (Internal Energy, 2003).
• Fuel Cells Explained by J. Laramine and A. Dicks (Wiley, Hoboken, NJ 2003).
• Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, J. Houghton (Cambridge UP, 3rd ed 2004).
• Nuclear Energy: Principles, Practices and Prospects by D. Bodansky (Springer, New York, 2nd ed 2004).
• The New Ecological Home: The complete Guide to Green Building Options by D. D. Chiras (Chelsea Green, White Water Junction, VT, 2004)
• Sustainable Energy: Choosing Among Options by J.W. Tester, E. M. Drake, M. J. Driscoll, M. W. Golay and W. A. Peters (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2005).
• Exercises in Environmental Physics by V. Faraoni (Springer, 2006)

Articles: (Most are available online or in most college libraries)

     NOTE: If you are an IU student these articles can be accessed via the 'Off Campus Access' link from the library page.

On Energy:

• 'The end of cheap oil' by C. J. Campbell and J. H. Laherrere Scientific American vol. 279 No. 3 March (1998) p78.
• 'Powering the Next Century' a series of articles in Science vol 285 July (1999) p677.
• 'The Future of Fuel Cells' A. J. Appleby, A. C. Lloyd, C. K. Dyer Scientific American vol. 281 No. 1 July (1999) p72.
• 'Nuclear energy: part of a green future?' E. Cartlidge Physics World April (2000) p10.
• 'Technologies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Next Decade' by A.H. Rosenfeld, T.M. Kaarsberg, J. Romm Physics Today vol. 53 No. 11 November (2000) p29.
• 'The Artic Oil and Wildlife Refuge' by W. W. Gibbs Scientific American vol. 284 No. 5 May (2001) p62.
• Special Issue: 'The Energy Challenge' Physics Today vol. 55 No. 4 April (2002).
• Pro Nuclear: 'Next-generation nuclear power',  By: Lake, James A., Bennett, Ralph G., Kotek, John F., Scientific American, Vol. 286, Issue 1, Jan (2002)p.
• 'Statistics of Measurements of Automobile Fuel Efficiency' by A. Bartlett The Physics Teacher Vol. 41 Nov. (2003) p472.
• 'Basic Choices and Constraints on Long-Term Energy Supplies' P. B. Weisz  Physics Today vol. 57 No. 7 July (2004) p47.
• 'The Hydrogen Economy' M. L. Wald, Scientific American vol. 290 No. 5 May (2004) p69.
• 'The Hydrogen Economy' G. W. Crabtree, M. S. Dresselhaus, M. V. Buchanan  Physics Today vol. 57 No. 12 Dec. (2004) p39.
• 'Special Issue: Toward a Hydrogen Economy' various authors Science Vol. 305 (August 13 2004)
• 'Smarter Use of Nuclear Waste', William Hannum, Gearald Marsh George Stanford, Scientific American, Vol. 293, Issue 6, Dec (2005)p84.
• 'Methane Hydrate Production from the Alaska permafrost' T. E. Williams, K. Millheim, B. Liddell, Department of Energy DE-FC26-01NT41331, March 2005.
• 'Stabalization Wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technology' S. Pascala, R. Socolow, Science vol. 305 Aug. 13 (2004) p968.
• 'Advanced technology paths to Global Climate Stability', M Hoffert et. al. Science vol. 298 Nov.1 (2002) p981.
• World Energy Assessment: Energy and the Challenge of Sustainability by J. Goldemberg (on the web: http://www.undp.org/energy/ ).
• Resource Letter PSEn-1: Physics and society: Energy by Art Hobson American Journal of Physics vol. 75 No. 4 April (2007) p294.
• 'Energy Resources and Global Development' by J. Chow,  R. J. Kopp and P. R. Portney, Science Vol. 302 (Nov. 23, 2003) p 1528.
• 'Peak Oil Forum' (collection of articles predicting when peak oil production will occur) WorldWatch Vol. 19 No. 1 (2006) p9-24.
• 'The future of nuclear power' various authors at MIT 2005.
• 'The status of Nuclear waste disposal' by D. Bodansky Physics and Society Vol. 35 No. 1 (2006) p4.
• 'Environmental, economic and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels' j. Hill, E. Nelson, D. Tilman, S. Polasky, D. Tiffany, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 103 No. 30 (July 2006) p11206.

On climate change:

• 'Can Technology Spare the Earth' by J.H. Ausubel American Scientist vol. 87 No. 2 March-April (1996) p166.
• 'El Nino Dynamics' J. D. Neelin and M. Latif  Physics Today vol. 51 No. 12 June (1998) p32.
• 'Rapid Climate Change' by K. Taylor American Scientist vol. 87 No. 4 July-August (1999) p320.
• 'The Human Impact on Climate' by T.R. Karl and K.E. Trenberth Scientific American vol. 281 No. 12 December (1999) p100.
• 'How Will Climate Change Affect Human Health?' Pim Martens American Scientist vol. 87 No. 6 November-December (1999) p.
• 'Capturing Greenhouse Gases' H. Herzog, B. Eliasson, O. Karrstad Scientific American vol. 282 No. 6 February (2000) p72.
• 'Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?' by P.R. Epstein Scientific American vol. 283 No. 2 August (2000) p50.
• 'Isotopic Analysis of Pristine Microshells Resolves a Troubling Paradox of Paleoclimatology' Physics Today vol. 54 No. 12 December (2001) p16.
• 'On thin ice? Antartica's Ice is Breaking Up, But Don't Panic Yet' by R. A. Bindschandler and C.R. Bentley  Scientific American vol. 287 No. 6  (2002) p98.
• 'Climate Shock: Abrupt Changes over Millennial Time Scales' by E. Bard Physics Today vol. 55 No. 12 December (2002) p32.
• 'The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change' by S. Weart Physics Today vol. 56 No. 8 August (2003) p30. Online version.
• 'The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program' Physics Today vol. 56 No. 1 January (2003) p38.
• 'Abrupt Climate Change' R. B. Alley et. al. Science vol. 299 March (2003) p2005.
  
• 'Meltdown in the North' M. Sturm, D. K. Perovich and M. C. Serreze   Scientific American vol. 289 No. 8  (2003) p60.
• 'Satellite-Observed Changes in the Artic', Comiso and Parkinson, Physics Today, vo1. 57 no. 8 August (2004) p38.
• 'Difusing the Global Warming Time bomb' J. Hansen, Scientific American vol.  No.  March (2004) p68.
• Climate Protection Strategies for the 21st Century: Kyoto and Beyond.  German Advisory Council on Global Climate Change. 2003
• Reports of the IPCC on global warming.

Other:

• 'The nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl, USSR', Bernard L. Cohen, American Journal of Physics, vol. 55 No. 12 (1987) p1076.
• 'Imapcts on the Earth by asteroids and comets: assessing the hazard', C. R. Chapman and D. Morrison, Nature vol. 367, Jan. (1994) p33.
• 'Lead in the Inner Cities' Howard Mielke American Scientist vol. 87 No. 1 January-Febuary (1999) p.
• 'The Clean Car Revolution' by J. Motavalli, J.H. Kay Sierravol. 84 no. 4 July/August (1999) p34.
• Not Cleaning Up by W. Wayt Gibbs Scientific American vol. 284 No. 2 Feb. (1999).
• 'Radiation Risks and Ethics' A. Jaworowski  Physics Today vol. 52 No. 9 September (1999) p24.
• 'The Power of Sound' by S.L. Garrett and S. Backhaus American Scientist vol. 88 No. 6 November-December (2000) p516.
• Making every drop count by Peter H. Gleick Scientific American vol. 284 No. 2 Feb. (2001) p.
• 'A Low Pollution Engine Solution' by S. Ashely Scientific American vol. 284 No. 6 June (2001) p90.
• 'The Promise and Challenge of Solid-State Lighting' by A Bergh, G. Craford A. Duggal and R. Haitz Physics Today vol. 54 No. 12 December (2001) p42.
• 'Aerosols in the Atmosphere' Sarah Graham Scientific American vol. 287 No. 1 January (2002) p.
• 'Vehicle of Change' by L. D. Burns, J. B. McCormick and C. E. Borroni-Bird Scientific American vol. 287 No. 4 (2002) p64.
• 'The Global Transport of Dust'  D. W. Griffin, C. A. Kellogg, V. H. Garrison, E. A. Shinn American Scientist vol. 90 No. 3 May-June (2002) p228.
• "Managing the Environmental Legacy of U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Production" Kevin D. Crowley, John F. Ahearne, American Scientist vol. 90 No. 9 November-December (2002) p.
• 'An Environmental Fairy Tale' by A Irwin in It must be beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science (Granta Press, 2002) edited by G. Farmelo. 
• 'The Bottleneck' by E. O. Wilson from The future of Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
• 'Traffic Crashes' by Leonard Evans, Amercian Scientist, vol. 90 No. 3 (2002) p 244.
  
• 'Resource Letter: RA-1: Risk Analysis', Richard Wilson American Journal of Physics, vol. 70 No. 5 (2002) p475.
• 'Weapons of Mass Disruption', by Michael A. Levi and Henry C. Kelly, Scientific American vol. 288 No. 10 (2002) p.
• 'The Asteroid Tugboat' R. Schweickart, E. T. Lu, P. Ht, C. R. Chapman, Scientific American vol. 289 No. 5 (2003) p 54.
• 'Human Biomonitoring of Environmental Chemicals Measuring chemicals in human tissues is the "gold standard" for assessing people's exposure to pollution', Ken Sexton, Larry L. Needham, James L. Pirkle Scientific American vol. 92 No. 1 (2004) p 38.
• Radon report from the Center for Disease Control. CDC Web page on Radon.
• Note: There are a few web pages out there that say Radon is a hoax (Google 'radon hoax'). You will notice, however that these sites are very far right wing sponsored sites, none of which are very reputable.
• 'Human Population Grows Up' by J. E. Cohen, Scientific American Vol. 293 No. 9 (Sept. 2005) p48.
  

Web pages:

• Wikipedia entries are extremely useful and up to date.
• The IUS Environmental Physics Web Site.
• Union of Concerned Scientists.
• Energy Information Adminstration (under the Department of Energy)
• Negative Population Growth Organization.
• Web page with power point presentation on energy by N. Lewis and group at Cal Tech.
• Earth trends.
  • Percentage of people living on $1 a day.
    
• IEEE (do a search for 'climate change' or other issues).
• Fuel Cell Today.
• Global Energy Budget exercise (by Greg Mulder).
  
• Water:
• The World's Water Organization.
• Water Supply and Sanitation Facts.
• Renewable water supply.
• Water scarecity.
• Air:
• The US government's AIRnow page (Ozone and particulate forcasts).
  
• Renewable Energy:
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
• US DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
• American Wind Energy Association.
• American Solar Energy Society.
• Against bio fuels.
• Ethanol.
  
• For bio-fuels.
• NREL analysis of a bio-diesel bus.
• Alge as a bio source.
• NREL summary. Chart.
  
• Cogeneration:
• University of Wisconsin cogeneration project.
• Midwest CHP Application Center.
• International District Energy Association.
  
• Global Warming:
• IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) THE source for global warming research.
• US Global Change Research Information Office.
• naturalSCIENCE, Volume 1, Article 9, 1997.
• Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases.
• Review of the scientific data.
• Real Climate dot Org
• How to Reply to Climate Skeptics Page
  
• Radon home test kits.
• http://www.radonzone.com/
• http://www.safehomeproducts.com/SHP/SM/SS_Radon.asp
• http://www.radonamerica.com/
• Home Energy Saver calculator.
  
• Sound.
• FAQ on active noise cancellation.
• Chineese singing fountain bowls.
• Chriping sound at the Mayan pyramid in Mexico. More.
• Sonoluminescence (changing sound into light).
• The nuclear power debate:
• Pro: Uranium Information Centre (Australia).
• Anti: (Contributed by students in P310)
• The politics: Union of Concerned Scientists - Nuclear Safety (USA).
• Phytoremediation for:
• Radioactive materials at Chernobyl.
• Lead in river sediment.
• Oranic compounds.
• Lead in urban soil.
• Risk of asteroid impacts:
• The NASA NEO (Near Earth Orbit) site.
• The NASA workshop report on Hazardous Comets and Meterors.
• The UK task force report.
• The UK NEO Information Centre.
• Pictures of Shoemaker-Levy colliding with Jupiter (1994)
• Digital photo map of the world (earth.google.com)
  

Overheads, tables, instructor notes:

• Fertility rates.
  
• Energy content of various fuel storage materials.
• First and Second laws of thermodynamics.
• Automobile historical data:
• Gas mileage.
• Horsepower.
  
• Energy conversion efficiencies.
• Low emissivity windows.
• Light bulb efficiencies (from Wikipedia).
• Forinash's power point talk: 'Ending the oil addiction, what will it take?'
• Ozone Hole, 2003.
  
• Oil imports to the US.
  
• Photos of windmill parts.
• Estimates of available renewable energy sources.
• Radiation units.
  
• Photo of receding glacier in Alaska.
  
• Brownian motion.
• GDP and HDI versus energy consumption graphs.
  
• Things that affect climate on earth.
• Global warming graphs presented in class.
• What are the sources of climate data?
• Coriolis effect. Animations.
• Sprites, Sprites, Blue Jets, whistlers, etc.
  
• Venus, Venus, Venus IR.
• ENSO and NAO and more NAO.
  
• Risk assesment notes.
• Death rate graphs presented in class.