BES 301: Science Methods and Practice

Inland Marsh   Todd Votteler   EPA

General Course Information

• Course Description
• Background Survey (required).  Complete before Oct 2.
• Electronic communication resources for the class.
• Electronic Reserves for course readings.
• Syllabus, Handouts and Problems, Research Project Handouts: #1 and #2
• Course Bibliography

Computing Information

• The general source for help with UW computing services is found on the central site computing center home page.
• E-Mail Setup provides a set of instructions to set up your e-mail account and contains links to the standard documents prepared by the computer center for using Pine to read e-mail on UW computers.
• The UWB Windows account.now uses your UWNetID.  See this link for details.
• UWICK is the standard UW connectivity kit used to set up remote dial-up computer connections to the e-mail system.  You should install this on your home computer.
• WWW Resources: Google, Google Scholar,  Yahoo Search Engine, Metacrawler Search Engine,

• Basic Mathematics tutorial.  This  may be helpful for some whose math background is a little "rusty".  Be sure to see me if there are any aspects of your math background that seem to be giving you problems with this course.

UW Library Resources on Web.

• Last updated onSeptember 26, 2005