Environmental Issues and Their Impacts on the Ecosystem, biology homework help

Environmental Issues and Their Impacts on the Ecosystem – Newsletter with a brief presentation to the class highlighting the main issues (Due Week 5)
Review the attached Student Resource for specific details on the assignment along with the grading rubric. Brief guidance is given below but you need to review the student guide as well.
Resources:
A few potentially helpful websites that have information on topics related to this presentation (economic cost of disease, cost for implementing environmental control measures, societal impact from lack of disease control, etc):
•Environmental Protection Agency: www.epa.gov
•National Science Foundation: www.nsf.gov
•http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/c7/c7h.htm
•World Health Organization: www.who.org
•Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov
•National Institutes of Health: www.nih.gov
•The Encyclopedia of Earth: http://www.eoearth.org/
•The Nature Conservancy: www.nature.org
•UOPx Library à Library Resources à Multimedia àScience Online à Environmental Science
Prepare a Newsletter using available templates for Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. Be sure to integrate information from the readings from workshops 1-5 into your presentation. Using information/sources BEYOND the reading is mandatory (including examples not found in the book). You may include recent information from newspapers, or other non-peer reviewed sources, as long as they are appropriately cited, but they should not be considered the primary source of scientific information. Topics will be assigned during class to avoid duplication with the members of the class.
Select one of the following Environmental Problems and the Ecological Impact – Individual topics will be assigned during workshop one based on this list.
1) Global Climate Change and the Impact of Rising Sea Levels
2) Global Climate Change and the Impact on Infectious Disease Distribution
3) Invasive species – you should select a specific species (animal, plant, insect, bacteria, etc.). Begin your research at: invasivespeciesinfo.gov.
4) Aircraft emissions (associated with jet fuels) – climate change and health effects associated with airline travel
5) Endocrine Disruptors in the Environment
6) Personal Care Products (PCPs) in Drinking Water
7) Nitrate Contamination of Groundwater (Central Valley)
8) Bisphenyl A (BPA) in Plastics
9) Hexavalent Chromium in Groundwater
10) Great Pacific Garbage Patch – or plastic garbage patches in other oceans
11) Electronic Hazardous Waste
12) Pharmaceutical pollution
13) Hazardous Waste/Superfund Site – (www.epa.gov has a listing of all superfund sites)
14) Coconut Plantations for Coconut Oil Production
15) International trade on endangered species
16) Deforestation – select a specific region of the world (such as Madagascar or South America)
17) Illegal dumping (specify type of dumping)
18) Other (requires instructor approval)
Address all of the following areas:
1) Introduction to the topic (what is the topic about, why is it important?). Relationship to readings from any/all workshops to your topic. Integrate course materials into your discussion.
2) Relationship to the reading, Workshops 1-5, with particular emphasis on the topics relevant to Workshops 4 and/or 5.
3) Your presentation should include a discussion of the impact on the ecosystem and a discussion of those populations most and least vulnerable to the environmental issue, as well as long-term consequences on the impacted populations (Workshop 5 reading).
4) Discuss how the environmental issue affects specific organ systems within affected animals/humans and how that disrupts normal anatomy and physiology or homeostasis of the organism (Workshop 4 reading), if relevant.
5) How or what is being done at the local/national/world level that may directly affect the topic under discussion? (This may include legislation to control some aspect of the topic or possibly, resulting international conflicts from the issue.)
6) What are the potential controversies associated with the topic?
7) Discuss societal, public health and/or economic issues that may play a role in regulating this area of biology.
8) Conclusion, including your opinion on any relevant controversies related to the topic (good or bad for society) and why.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines and the information provided in the attached student resource.