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This webpage offers a course overview for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 1.258J/11.541J/ESD.226J, Public Transportation Service and Operations Planning.  Topics discussed include the role of public transportation, current technology, planning for maximum efficiency, vehicle and...

This course, entitled Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling and offered by MIT's OpenCourseware program, covers topics such as numerical methods, formulation and parameterizations used in models of the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean. Emerging concepts and new methods in the field will also be...

This webpage offers a course overview for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 11.301J/4.252J, Introduction to Urban Design and Development. Topics discussed include public participation in development, redevelopment, urban design, the art of cities, and the environmental and social...

This webpage offers a course overview for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 11.016J/4.211J, The City.  Topics discussed include the variety of physical aspects of cities in the twentieth century and what has influenced their landscape. The course, in particular, examines the...

Part of MIT's innovative OpenCourseWare Project that provides materials from MIT classes to the public on the web, this site outlines a class on the physical processes by which materials, such as pollutants, are transported in the environment. The course focuses primarily on transport through water....

This 1-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, is meant to help students learn the concept of exponential growth, as well as interpret and apply exponential relationships. It is intended for environmental science or biology classes. The activity includes a list...

This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website contains information on the modeling of subsurface transport of petroleum hydrocarbons and other environmental contaminants. Course modules on the fate and transport of contaminants are included. There are also OnSite on-line calculators for...

This website, provided by the National Agricultural Safety defense, is a central repository of agricultural health, safety, and injury prevention materials for the agricultural community and especially for agricultural safety specialists. Resources and training materials are organized by topic.  

The National Energy Technology Lab supports research on clean uses of fossil fuels, energy efficiency, and fuel cells. Fact sheets, technical reports, and journal publications can be downloaded from this site. This site has some information that would be useful as a reference for community college...

Produced by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Environmental Health Chat is a podcast focused on exploring "how environmental exposures affect ... health" with each episode highlighting "ways researchers work in partnership with community groups to understand and address...