Professor Manalis is pretty cool. This class was co-taught with Professor Gee, who I suspect is responsible for the hard tests. Class itself was interesting, section helps A LOT. Midterm & final consisted of confusing multiple choice along with specific written answers, which means you need to know it all thoroughly. Class is curved, thankfully.

Prof Manalis himself is pretty standard. He has a pretty deep voice so he can be a little mono-tone and tough to hear sometimes. His background is physics, so expect more basic touch points lecturer rather than the usual passionate enigmatic UCSB environmental studies professor.

I think this class is one of the more difficult class for Environmental Studies, but some of the topics were definitely interesting. Section assignments holds a big chunk of our grades so be sure to put more effort to the two 1-2 paged papers.

This class was great. Very relevant information. TESTS ARE SO EASY!! Mel is very clear on what he is putting on the test. Got an A+ and only went over slidesnotes the night before test. If you're a BS, this will be a piece of cake. really nice and fair professor.

This was a great class if you're interested in renewable energy. He is a very knowledgeable professor and brought in interesting guest speakers. This class is an easy A if you show up for lecture.

readings were GREAT. TAs were GREAT. clarity of lectures was bad. he's an extremely intelligent man and i feel privileged to have learned from him, but poor thing is just getting too old to teach. made mistakes in lectures all the time and didn't correct them. informative class, but a little frustrating. Stephanie was the best TA!!! fair tests too