Professors
This professor teaches the environmental justice class and is the advisor for DEAL.
A dehydration reaction involves the removal of this molecule.
What is water?
This scientist aboard the HMS Beagle went to the Galapagos to study finches in the 1830s.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Last semester DEAL started a campaign against this new- to -New Jersey invasive insect.
What is a spotted lanternfly?
Some amount of energy from power plants is lost in this form.
What is heat?
This professor leads a trip to Belieze every other year and does small mammal research on campus.
Who is Dr. Windfelder?
This area of chemistry and chemical engineering is focused on the design of products and processes that minimize or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.
What is Green Chemistry?
Like an archway, the presence or absence of this type of organism can determine the stability of its ecosystem.
What is a keystone species
Although native to New Jersey, this organism has a negative impact on many ecosystems that we hold dear.
What is the white-tailed deer?
Commonly used in trucks, this type of fossil fuel has a higher energy density and leads to more pollutants.
What is Diesel?
This professor does research involving a glove box and has an interest in green chemistry.
Who is Dr. Choquette?
This gas makes up the majority of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This term describes the increasing concentration of harmful chemicals up the food chain.
What is Biomagnification?
Brought to America as a packaging material, this plant is a problem on campus because it's seeds will stay in the ground for up to 5 years.
What is Japanese Stiltgrass?
This sometimes controversial form of renewable energy can lead to both droughts and flooding.
What are dams or hydroelectric dams?
These two professors teach both chemistry and environmental classes.
Who are Dr. Pearsall and Dr. Woodka?
These two reactions are opposites of each other:
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
This author wrote a book about DDT that helped spark the modern American environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
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This native fern found in the arboretum is named after a flightless bird.
What is an ostrich fern?
This type of reaction takes place within a nuclear reactor.
What is fission?
This chemistry professor does not teach any classes but does research in atmospheric chemistry.
Who is Dr. Hinrichs?
The pH of acid raid is around 4. The pH of the ocean is around 8. How many more times greater is the concentration of H+ ions in acid rain than in the ocean.
What is 10,000 times?
If not managed properly, landfills can produce this greenhouse gas.
What is methane?
This native on campus plant has mature seed pods that explode on contact in order to disperse their seeds.
What is Jewelweed?