Essentials of Environmental Science (2nd Edition) – eBook

About The Author

Andrew Friedland

Dr. Andrew Friedland is a distinguished environmental and forest ecosystem scientist with over 35 years of experience researching the effects of air pollution in the high-elevation forests of New England and New York. Throughout his career, he and his colleagues have investigated the cycling of critical elements like carbon, nitrogen, calcium, and lead as they transition from the atmosphere through vegetation and soils into aquatic systems. Additionally, he has explored the consequences of biomass removal on forest ecosystems. Dr. Friedland teaches courses in energy, introductory environmental science, and forest biogeochemistry. He is also the lead author of an introductory environmental science textbook, as well as a primer on grant proposal development and writing.

Rick Relyea

Dr. Rick Relyea is the Director of the Jefferson Project at Lake George for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a groundbreaking partnership between IBM, Rensselaer, and the FUND for Lake George. Relyea is in charge of a group of Rensselaer scientists, engineers, computer scientists, and other specialists who are employing the most recent developments in science and technology to comprehend, forecast, and enable a resilient ecosystem for the nearby Lake George. Numerous undergraduate students have taken Rick's introductory ecology, behavioural ecology, and evolution courses.

His work has received international acclaim and has appeared in prestigious ecological journals such as Ecology, Ecology Letters, American Naturalist, PNAS, and others.
The diversity of species that live in aquatic ecosystems is the current focus of Relyea's research.