Hi Ashley,

To reply to you question about readings per week - I think that we should not have more than one per theme, so 5 papers per week. For the first week it will be impossible for the students to know what to read before hand. So I think that I recommended a short text that we can hand out.

Fabrice

Hi Kimberly,

Thanks for that awesome first stab and for getting us going. I liked the slide of the groups, and the virtual groups. I think that we are on a good track to get started, though I think that there are too many EA slide (11-50) at which point you "Get back on topic". I think that we should narrow down the EA slides to the ones that are most relevant to the theme. We should try to keep the number of slides down to 30-40 or so if this is going to be a one hour presentation. I also imagine that during this time we will spend some time with the students showing them the website etc...

I think that one topic which is underemphasized in the the presentation is that biodiversity is the agent by which ecosystems function, and that this is really one of the primary themes of the DGS, loss of biodiversity is not simply of importance to conservation, but can have important impacts on goods and services that we often fail to recognize.

I'll take a much closer look at this tomorrow and send some more specific comments. Thanks a million for getting us started on this!

Fabrice

For the first week it will be impossible for the students to know what to read before hand. So I think that I recommended a short text that we can hand out.

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I think we can have some papers associated with the first week. I will have most of the registered student e-mails prior to the first class and was planning on giving them the link to the website and encouraging them to get a head start on the readings. I think students who are a bit concerned about their lack of prior knowledge on the topic would prefer to do some advance reading. I would suggest we have some introductary papers in the first week's folder, but we don't necessarily rigidly expect that all students will have read them. Does that work as an adequate compromise?

I'm re-working the intro lecture now and will be back here later with more thoughts on the readings.

Best,
Kim

Hi Everyone,

I’ve uploaded a second version of the lecture to the Faculty folder. I don’t consider it “finished”, but it’s better than the first version. I’ve both deleted and added slides in line with Margie’s and Fabrice’s comments. I could use more input. I have to go now, else I’d continue to work on better integrating the slides. But I wanted to have something better uploaded for people to look at over the weekend.

Thanks,
Kim

Hi Kim,

It looks pretty good to me, I was wondering if you could tell us what the red arrows on slide 30 specifically means? Is it that efforts to politically regulate these services are declining? or the biological regulation of them is declining? and where? are these global trends?


Also I don't know enough about slides 37 - 39 to know how to lecture on them, could you give us a few sentences about them? In particular I don't understand slide 37 or 39. Is 37 just the precursor to slide 38? what exactly are the lines in slide 39? I can guess but I want to make sure I get it right.

Thanks Kim!

Margie