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Wikipedia assignment for ENVIRSC 3B03: Global change, Ecosystems, and the Earth systems is here.

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|1|| Evaluate an article: Environmental Health|-|}
- link to wikipedia page : Environmental health 'Italic text
 * Environmental health is defined at the beginning of the article. Environmental health involves the natural and human built environment.


 * This article discusses the World Health Organizations definition of Environmental Health.
 * There are five main disciplines of Environmental health


 * 1) Environmental epidemiology
 * 2) Toxicology
 * 3) Exposure science studdies
 * 4) Environmental engineering
 * 5) Environmental law

This article also discusses the human health concerns related to natural and built environment.

I made small edits to the above article that I found.Anne.rachael (talk) 04:14, 2 February 2019 (UTC) Overall, I believe the Environmental Health article does not go into depth specifically about environmental health, but does explains environmental health well in the introduction, has many sources and is unbiased.

|2|| Article Selection |-|}
Arctic sea ice declineAnne.rachael (talk) 04:14, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

|3||Content Gap|-|}
1)Content gap- Information not found on the archive (searched for but not found) 2)Lack of reliable sources is bad quality- Wikipedia articles should be peer reviewed and encourage participation of experts 3)No it does not matter who writes Wikipedia 4)What does it mean to be unbiased work on wikipedia? on wikipediaDocument/explain major points of view in a impartial matter. Have reliable sources.

|4||Citations Activity|-|}
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Anne.rachael/citing_sources&tour=wikiedcitingsources&step=editButton

These coral have an internal cavity that is typically occupied by a symbiotic sipunculan worm; in the crab's habitat in the Ōshima Straight south of Amami Ōshima, it is often found inside the corals instead. Diogenes heteropsammicola is a species of hermit crab that lives within "walking corals" of the genera Heterocyathus and Heteropsammia.[1]

^ Igawa, Kato (2017). "A new species of hermit crab, Diogenes heterosammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis" (12(9): e0184311).https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0184311

|5||Chosen Article|-|}
(under article is editing activity) Arctic sea ice declineAnne.rachael (talk) Arctic sea ice decline From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search

|6||Editing existing Arctic Sea Ice Decline article |-|}
-from the Arctic Sea Ice decline article Sea will ice continue to decrease in extent, and that there is robust evidence for the downward trend in Arctic summer sea ice extent since 1979.[3]

The sentence should be " That sea ice will continue todecrease in extent, and that there is robust evidence for the downward trend in Arctic summer sea ice extent since 1979."[3]

|8||Additions to the existing wikipedia Arctic Sea Ice Decline article|-|}
Sea Ice and Climate feedbacks (added my me) Arctic Sea ice maintatins the cool temperature of the polar regions and it has an important albedo effect on the climate. Arctic Sea ice melts in the summer, and more of the ocean is being absorbed by the sun. The fast rate of the sea ice melting is resulting in the oceans absorbing and heating up the Arctic. The decline in sea ice does have a notable potential to significantly speed up global warming and the climate changes.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change IPCC Fourth Assessment Report states greenhouse gas accumulation is the major reason for this decline in arctic sea ice. There is a study from A study from the 2011 suggested that internal variability enhanced the greenhouse gas forced sea ice decline over the last decades.[1] A study from 2007 found the decline to be "faster than forecasted" by model simulations.[2] The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report concluded, with high confidence, that sea will ice continue to decrease in extent, and that there is robust evidence for the downward trend in Arctic summer sea ice extent since 1979.[3] It has been established that the region is at its warmest for at least 40,000 years and the Arctic-wide melt season has lengthened at a rate of 5 days per decade (from 1979 to 2013), dominated by a later autumn freeze-up.[4] Sea ice changes have been identified as a mechanism for polar amplification.[5] (kept from the Arctic Sea Ice Decline article)

In the arctic there are normal seasonal changes. As the summer transitions into the autumn season, the ice cover will shrink to its smallest extent for that year. This transition day from summer to autumn is vital for environmental scientists because the measurement taken will be used to analyze the state of the arctic region and add to the increase in the understanding of the changes that are occurring due to climate change. At 4.41 million square kilometers or 1.79 million square miles, 2015 was recorded as the fourth smallest summer sea ice minimum documented in history.

Amplified Arctic warming[edit source]

My Additions to the Amplified Arctic Warming section of the article Positive feedbacks that are directly associated with the process of ice and snow are mainly responsible for the arctic’s higher exposure and sensitivity to global warming. Arctic amplified warming (AAW) is strongest in lower atmospheric areas. '''This also increases pressure and decrease wind speeds. These feedback effects are stronger in the lower atmosphere'''.

The expanding process of warmer air increases pressure levels, which decreases poleward geopotential height gradients. These gradients are the reason that cause west to east winds through the thermal wind relationship. Declining speeds are usually found south of the areas with geopotential increases in height increases. This relationship has been documented through observation evidence and model responses to sea ice loss. [40] J, Vavrus S, Cohen J. article Title: Amplified Arctic warming and mid latitude weather: new perspectives on emerging connections Authors:Francis J, Vavrus S, Cohen J.

My article additions: The arctic refuge is where polar bears main habitat is to den and the melting arctic sea ice is causing a loss of species. There are only about 900 bears in the arctic refuge national conservation area.

Below is my link where I added a photo to commons.wikipedia.org activity https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arctic-sea-ice-NationalGeographic_1494865.ngsversion.1521841253677.adapt.1900.1.jpg

|9||Peer Review|-|}
Usertalk: Peer edited Megan Coad's article rough draft additions and sandbox. Your introduction that you wrote, explains infiltration well. The paragraph is clear and you explain what causes infiltration and infiltration capacity. There could be more description or another source added to your sentence about slope affecting infiltration. Overall, your additions are very good.

Usertalk: Peer edited Camille Giuliano's article and sandbox. Your article is unbiased and very clear. There is enough content directly related to your topic and your sandbox is layed out well.

Responding to peer review None of my peers have reviewed the article yet. However, a wikipedia user is seeing my contribution to the article and responding to me. I am making corrections to my additions in the article as well.

|10||Reflective essay|-|}
Learning how to edit in wikipedia has been a great experience. I learned to critically evaluate articles. By critiquing other articles, I learned that its vital to have many reliable academic sources that provide detailed descriptions and evidence for a certain topic. It is imperative to keep the Wikipediapage unbiased, and express the facts of a topic. For my article that I am adding to I am finding good reliable academic sources that are providing more information on the topic. I am finding information that is related to environmental science. I chose Arctic sea decline. Global warming, climate change are happening at a rapid rate. There is evidence in the polar regions. I am adding information to my article about what changes have been observed. Climate change is impacting the arctic sea ice and this has a detrimental impact on geology processes (feedback loops, atmospheric gases, albedo affect) aquatic and terrestrial life.

I made grammatical edits and my additions are areas of the article that are lacking in detail or information about a certain topic related to the decline of arctic sea ice.

The peer review process is helpful because you can see how others are making additions to existing article and how they are improving the detail content information I’ve been learning a lot from Wikipedia and the modules have been useful. Wikipedia commons has not been the easiest to use because of the strict rules in regards to uploading pictures even when you reference and credit to the individual who took the photo, website and describe the photo. I will try to add a different picture to the Wikipedia commons.

Climate change and polar amplification is known worldwide. However, many people don’t understand the significance of arctic sea ice decline. This is only one of many examples that climate change is rapidly altering the environment.