User:L.schlieman/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument


 * Article Evaluation
 * Needs updating with results of Interior Secretary Zinke's recommendations to reduce the size of the monument; needs more information and sources


 * Sources
 * NOAA Fisheries: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/habitat-conservation/pacific-remote-islands-marine-national-monument
 * Tulane Environmental Law Journal: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43294067

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Endangered Species Act


 * Article Evaluation
 * Needs updating to include Trump Administration's 2020 proposals to change the ESA


 * Sources
 * https://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/proposed-definition-of-habitat-web-version.pdf

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act


 * Article Evaluation
 * Include information about reauthorization and recently proposed amendments


 * Sources
 * US Fisheries Management Council: http://www.fisherycouncils.org/msa-reauthorization

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone


 * Article Evaluation
 * lacking information on oceanography, biology etc. of the CCZ
 * update mining section to provide more information about the polymetallic nodules found and updates to the permit-granting process by the ISA


 * Sources
 * International Seabed Authority: https://www.isa.org.jm/map/clarion-clipperton-fracture-zone
 * NOAA: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18ccz/background/mining/mining.html
 * Pew Charitable Trusts: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2017/12/the-clarion-clipperton-zone
 * Frontiers in Marine Science: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00418/full

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Polymetallic Nodules


 * Article Evaluation
 * "Proposed Mining" section needs updating to account for recent developments by the ISA and the Cook Islands
 * Flesh out "Environmental Issues and sensitivities" section


 * Sources
 * International Seabed Authority: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00418/full
 * Frontiers in Marine Science: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00418/full