Office Hours and E-Mail Addresses
Office Hours and E-Mail Addresses
Lecture Outlines and Lecture Handouts
Note: this course has an active e-mail list. The instructor and the TAs send e-mails to the students enrolled in the class.
But what can you do if you don't check your campus e-mail account? If that's the case, you need to redirect your e-mail
from the campus system to some other address or ISP. Check with this handy site to find out how!
To learn more about the instructor of the course, check out Dr. Orlove's website!
Cultural ecology isn't just about remote exotic places...it's also about our very own watershed.
Learn more about The Putah-Cache Bioregion Project.
Or you might want to hear more about opportunities for UCDavis students to travel for foreign countries. Check out the Education Abroad Program.
If your interest in nature makes you want to go backpacking or kayaking or rafting or rockclimbing, a great way to explore places near Davis is to go on a trip offered by the campus program Outdoor Adventures.
If the class makes you want to know more about the tropical forest and the cultures that have lived there for millennia, take The Virtual Amazon Tour...
Did you know that Dr. Orlove is the editor of one of the leading anthropology journals in the world? It's called Current Anthropology.
Not only do cultural ecologists study lobster fishermen in Maine, the lobster fishermen study themselves! They have a Maine Lobster site.
From the people who know a great deal about water in California: the state Department of Water Resources. And the state snow survey provides even more facts and figures about water at their site. Both of these have many links to other water sites...
For all you environmentalists, along with native/indigenous rights activists, pyromaniacs, Aussie-philes, etc., a great home page on forest fires in Australia. It shows how a place that is a lot like California (hot dry summers, cool wet winters, fire-prone forests) handles the issue of fire control in somewhat different ways. http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~barling/firebreak/firebreak.html
Get in touch with your local environment, and also decide what to wear tomorrow: here's the four-day weather forecast for the Sacramento area: http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/UnitedStates/Southwest/California/Sacramento/Forecast/
People lined up for hours in the snow in Washington DC to see the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, a truly remarkable Dutch painter. Amazing light, striking portraits, evocative interactions that have kept viewers fascinated for centuries: not in a crowded museum back east but right on your screen: http://www.ccsf.caltech.edu/~roy/vermeer/vermeer_map.html
You're hearing what the cultural ecologists have to say about exotic people in remote environments around the world...now hear what those people have to say themselves, via Nativeweb: http://www.nativeweb.org
Yes, a home page for a paradigm! It's the fourth paradigm, political ecology, with its own home page: http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/jpeweb.html
Up there in the night sky: check out this home page for information on planets, comets, meteor showers, and other spectacular and beautiful phenomena right up there in the sky at night: http://www.skypub.com/s_t/s_t.html
A central location for information on conservation and biodiversity issues worldwide: www.unep-wcmc.org
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