Oceania

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Oceania

• Natural Applied Sciences

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageOceania_ISO_316
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Goals for today

• 2nd library review
• Discuss explore science topic ideas
• Decide on one topic and begin focusing it
• Explore on the web
• Online general encyclopedias
• Print subject encyclopedias
• Start finding articles

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Library review

• Log in to UD Online
• Under June 16 - June 22, choose Library
  Assessment 2

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SS Humanities

• What worked?
• What challenges did you have?
• What will you do differently this time?

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What do we know so far?

• Previous topics/research
• Red crab invasion of Christmas Island
• Breeding out of Aborigines
• People from/visitors to the area
• Huge poisonous spiders in Sydney
• News stories
• Volcano eruptions
• Global warming impact

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Plants Animals
Encyclopedia of Reptiles Amphibians
Encyclopedia of Endangered Species

• Coqui frogs
• Kangaroo
• Koala
• Dingo
• Kookaburra
• Echidna
• Kiwi
• Wombats

Encyclopedia of Mammals
Platypus http//search.eb.com/eb/art-92089?article
TypeId1
Wallaby http//search.eb.com/eb/art-7962?articleTy
peId1
Atlas of Endangered Species
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Tasmanian devil

• Devil Facial Tumour Disease
• Fatal contagious cancer
• First detected in 1996

http//www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/LBUN
-5QF86G?open
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Scientific Classification
Grzimeks Animal Life Encyclopedia

• General to specific
• Kingdom
• Phylum
• Class
• Order
• Family
• Genus
• Species
• Biodiversity

Koala phascolarctos cinereus
Hawaiian Monk Seal monachus schauinslandi
Cane toad Bufo marinus
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Unique ecosystems

• Australian outback
• Fire climate cycles
• Rare plants
• Tropical forest/rain forest
• Easter Island
• extreme deforestation erosion
• Great Barrier Reef
• Diverse plants animals
• Venomous snakes

http//search.eb.com/eb/art-17503?articleTypeId1
http//www.environment.gov.au/parks/nrs/index.html
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Lands of Extremes
Encyclopedia of Volcanoes
Whats the focus?

• Kilauea in Hawaii
• Krakatau (aka Krakatoa) in Indonesia
• Tsunamis
• Monsoons
• Hurricanes

Encyclopedia of Climate Weather
http//earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Sentinel/
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Environmental Issues

• Cause Effect leads to a research question
• How is global warming impacting the Great Barrier
  Reef ecosystem? What else is predicted?
• How did humans impacts on Easter Island erosion
  influence the ecosystem?
• How have environmental problems contributed to
  mammal extinctions in Australias history?
  Hunting practices?

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Technology

• Agricultural practices
• Nuclear testing
• Bikini Atoll
• Marshall Islands
• Christmas Island

http//www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/crossroads.h
tm
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Medicine/Health
Encyclopedia of AIDS

• Womens health/pregnancy/birth
• Health of rural/indigenous groups
• Diseases
• malaria
• bird flu
• HIV/AIDS
• Impact of nuclear testing
• Cancer
• Birth defects

Kava Plant
http//nccam.nih.gov/health/kava/
Encyclopedia of Womens Issues
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Government information on the web
World Health Organization
Parks Wildlife Service of Tasmania

• Statistics
• Health/medical topics
• Environmental topics
• Tip limit web search to .gov sites

Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Australian Government Agriculture Portal
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Tips to remember

• Search using keywords NOT natural language
• Read more than you cite
• Narrow topic using articles

• Tip Try the Visual Search tab in ASP

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Science databases
BioDigest
GeoBase
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Recommended databases

• Agricola
• BioDigest
• BioOne

• Geobase
• HealthSource
• Medline

Find Articles ? Science, Technology, Health
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Remember

• This is a science paper!
• All topics are interdisciplinary. Focus on the
  scientific aspects
• Ask Whats the significance? Cause effect?

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Before end of class today

• Choose 1 topic and 1 backup idea
• Explore on web, in print and online encyclopedias
• Look at RES104 reserve materials
• Start looking at articles to narrow your topic

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For Wednesday

• Begin narrowing your topic
• Continue looking for articles.

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Bibliography (CSE format)

• Australia. (2007). In Encyclopædia Britannica.
  Retrieved March 7, 2007, from Encyclopædia
  Britannica Online http//search.eb.com/eb/article
  -9110544
• Great Barrier Reef. (2007). In Encyclopædia
  Britannica. Retrieved March 7, 2007, from
  Encyclopædia Britannica Online
  http//search.eb.com/eb/article-9037836
• Hawaii. (2007). In Encyclopædia Britannica.
  Retrieved March 7, 2007, from Encyclopædia
  Britannica Online http//search.eb.com/eb/article
  -9039594
• Kilauea. (2007). In Encyclopædia Britannica.
  Retrieved March 7, 2007, from Encyclopædia
  Britannica Online http//search.eb.com/eb/article
  -9045419
• Robert George S. 2005. Toxic Treasure. Natural
  History 115(8)40-45.