Presentation: 10 % of your grade. (Material from group presentations will be the basis for Essay 4, which is 20 % of your grade.)

Each group will make a presentation to the class as scheduled on the syllabus.
References, and presentation slides (or a working link to them) should be emailed to Professor Perrolle by Monday, April 11, so that they can be posted for other class members to use in their final essay. Your final essay will be on any of the topics except the one your group presented on. Members of the group whose topic is chosen by the most people for their final topic will receive a half letter grade higher on both Group Assignment 2 and Essay 4.

In this assignment you will be exploring some current issues in computer applications for environmental sustainability. Your group will be assigned a specific topic to research and present to the class. You should try to communicate your information in a way that will facilitate your classmates' answers to final exam questions about these topics.

Some lists of potentially useful news items (links will be updated by Friday, March 29):

• https://delicious.com/soc528/environment
• https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485
• https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485/sustainability

1. disaster prediction - earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, asteroid strikes, fire, drought and more
   https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485/risk
   https://delicious.com/soc528/risk
2. disaster prevention - disaster proof design tools, evacuation management, changing asteroid orbits, etc
   https://delicious.com/soc528/design+risk
3. disaster relief - social media, opensource tools, victim hunting robots, wifi networks for disaster relief, computer applications for water desalinization, famine relief management software, and other useful things
   https://delicious.com/soc528/disaster_response
4. environmental sustainability education - games, websites, projects and toys that teach
   https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485/education
   https://delicious.com/soc528/games
5. sustainable agriculture - cellphones for poor farmers, open ecology tools, satellite crop monitoring, 3d printed food
   https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485/food%26agriculture
6. food safety - RFID chipped cows, food source tracking systems, big data illness symptom tracking, automated cargo inspection, barcodes on fruit
   https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485/food%26agriculture
7. community environmental empowerment - environmental sensors, pollution monitoring, health data, non-profit management (includes practical project alternative to paper)
   https://delicious.com/soc528/community
8. ecosystem and wildlife preservation - critter cams, robotic fish, drones to track elephants, wireless rainforest trees, and others
   https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485/ecosystems%26species
9. climate change modeling - atmosphereic, oceanographic, ice, CO2 production, and climate informatics adding machine learning and big data
   https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485/climate_change
10. disease - tracking outbreaks, DNA analyis tools, Google searches for symptoms and other big date efforts, remote medical care systems, policies to prevent biological weapons
    https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485/health
11. sustainable energy - redesign of national power grid, energy efficient transportation, computer controlled solar and wind power generation, putting powerplants on the internet, stuxnet worm, other issues
    https://www.diigo.com/user/soc485/energy