Semesters
The coming of semesters to Brookes in 2004/5 posed all of the staff many problems, not least writing large numbers of new lectures for the revised courses. I lectured on the following courses: U14535- Plant Science; U15500- Earth Systems; U15520- Earth Processes and Cycles; U15524- Environmental Hydrology; U15580- Environmental Pollution and Global Change; and U14505 Energy and Nutrients. I also demonstrated on practicals for U14503- Organisms and Environment and supervised three Foundation Projects! To give an idea of the range of topics I covered in my lectures have a look at the table below:

Semester 1
Week
Title
U14535
S1W01
1 Plant anatomy - the shoot
U14535
S1W03
2 Photosynthesis- light reactions
U14535
S1W03
3 Photosynthesis- C3 and photorespiration
U15520
S1W03
1 Weathering 1
U15520
S1W03
2 Weathering 2
U15520
S1W03
3 Weathering 3
U15580
S1W04
1 Air 3-acid rain
U15520
S1W04
4 Global soil classification
U15520
S1W04
5 Soil chemistry
U15520
S1W04
6 Erosion
U15520
S1W06
7 Biogeochemical cycles in soils
U15520
S1W06
8 Pygmy forest soils- a case study
U15520
S1W06
9 Rainforest soils and their problems
U14535
S1W06
4 Water relations in the plant
U14535
S1W06
5 Water conservation and use; stomata, cuticles,
U14535
S1W07
6 Xerophytes, hygrophytes, hydrophytes.
U14535
S1W07
7 Modifications to photosynthesis C4 and CAM
U14535
S1W08
8 Plant mineral nutrition
U14535
S1W08
9 Plant mineral nutrition
U14535
S1W09
10 Nitrogen fixation
U14505
S1W10
1 Plant nutrition 1
U14505
S1W10
2 Plant nutrition 2
U14505
S1W11
3 Photosynthesis
U14505
S1W11
4 Photosynthesis
U14535
S1W11
11 Development and senescence of the mature plant
Semester 2
U14535
S2W03
12 Stress in the soil environment- general including heavy metals
U15500
S2W02
1 Rocks and Minerals
U14535
S2W03
13 Halophytes and salt tolerance
U15500
S2W03
2 Weathering and Erosion
U15500
S2W03
3 Soils- nature and development
U15500
S2W03
4 Soils under threat
U14535
S2W04
14 Halophytes and salt tolerance
U15500
S2W04
5 Drainage basins and river systems
U15500
S2W04
6 Use and control of water resources
U15500
S2W04
7 Implications for ecological distributions
Masters
S2W06
Soils in Environmental Assessment (2 lectures)
U15580
S2W07
2 Introduction to soil pollution
U15580
S2W07
3 Organic pollutants
U15580
S2W07
4 Contaminated land
EASTER
U15580
S2W08
5 Remediation methods for contaminated land
U15580
S2W08
6 Sudbury case study
U15580
S2W08
7 Landfill
U14535
S2W10
15 Plants for other uses- phytoremediation
U15524
S2W10
1 Water resources case study- Israel