Team members Juliana Prendergast and Natalie Casson Overview Quartz is an abundant mineral on the earth; it is the second most abundant mineral on the planet, and it can be found on different reserves scattered across many continents. Quartz will form into hexagonal shapes because of its specific chemical formula and how it bonds. These […]
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Salt Makes The World Go Around
By Kat Chester, Tallie Steiner, and Eden Smith Overview What is this mineral? Where, in general, is it produced worldwide? Common salt is a mineral primarily consisting of sodium chloride. The broader category of salts, in chemistry terms, refers to an ionic compound that results from the neutralization of an acid and a base. In […]
From Soil to Airplanes: The Mining and Refining of Bauxite
Team Members: Lauren Walker, Nicole Godbout, and Ben Carsner Overview Bauxite, an aluminum ore, is the main source of the world’s aluminum metal. Bauxite is naturally gray but iron oxide impurities causes it to appear reddish brown. Most bauxite reserves are located near the equator in tropical and subtropical regions. Australia, China, Brazil, India, and […]
Mineral Nitrogen: Feeding the World
By Alannah Balfour & Cora Layman Overview Nitrogen has been an integral part of life since the first cell was formed. Nitrogen is a gas that makes up about 80% of our atmosphere, and is also a major part of healthy soil because it is formed from the decomposition of organisms. Nitrogen is a […]
Secrets of Silver
By Rylie Neely, Alex Preso, Ethan Kelner, and Hannah Van Dusen Overview Silver, Ag, is a metallic element found in the Earth’s crust. “Of all the metals [silver has] the highest optical reflectivity, and the highest thermal and electrical conductivity” (Hilliard). “Native” silver can be found in the earth’s crust in its pure periodic element […]
Tantalum: The Tantalizing Truth
by Hannah Machiorlete, Allie Osgood, Ivy Denham-Conroy, and Ada Barbee Overview Tantalum and Its Leading Extractors Tantalum is a rare, non-corrosive transition metal found in low quantities in the Earth’s crust (about 1 part per million) with desirable properties for a variety of applications. Tantalum conducts electricity well and is a biocompatible material, providing uses for both the […]
Your phone is a product of child labor!
By Elise Gilmore, Mamelang Memela, Nhi Ho Introduction Cobalt is a metal with the chemical symbol of Co. It has the atomic number of 27. It is usually found in the Earth’s crust in chemically combined forms, although small traces can be found in meteoric iron. It takes up 0.001% of the Earth’s crust […]
Lucky Number 7: A Climate Change Revelation
As part of a class wide survey, our group went into downtown Portland and nearby neighborhoods to analyze public opinion on climate change in the Greater Portland Area. We asked random people a series of brief questions asking them to; quantify (1-10) how important climate change is to them compared to other issues and tell […]
Keeping Up With Climate Change ft. Hillsboro and Portland
Summary: Our team of Jaime Monsher, Olivia Zelleweger, Raya Deussen and Tash Hood rallied round to travel to Hillsboro to complete a survey of the general public on the topic of climate change. This data was compiled with other data, collected in a similar manner, by our classmates in ENVS-160. The goal behind this project […]
Does Portland believe in climate change?
Aidan Macie, Jack Kamysz, Henry Chapman, Matt Stevenson Procedure: This survey was completed in order to better understand how Portland residents feel about the importance of climate change issues, and the. To do this, our group of four, the rest of our class, and another class period gathered 160 responses to one question: If […]
Portland on Climate: How does it add up?
By Ania Wright – Emma Cooley – Heather Shaw – Zoey Steel Procedure / Overview: For this assignment, we went to downtown Portland to discuss the issue of climate change with a few locals. We went downtown into Powell’s Bookstore Cafe to find some willing participants. Though it was tricky to get people to take […]
I Want YOU To Think About Climate Change
Trini Susuico, Rachel Applebaum, Ashley Aguiar, Julia Chavez Procedure: Our mission was to find out how different people about how important climate change is to them on a scale from 1 to 10, one being the lowest importance and 10 being the highest importance. We walked around the streets of downtown Portland as well as […]
Portland Climate Change vs. THE WORLD
Our team members were: Faith Michal, Cassie Kent, Julia Neish, Sofi Ronning
Shopping for Perspectives: Portland Considers Climate Change
Procedure: The two of us (Gabriel Commisaris and Shawn Bolker) set out to collect data to survey people’s varying opinions on climate change in the Portland area. We planned to compare Portland’s results to levels of national and international concern. In order to avoid the heavy rain we decided to go to Fred Myers to […]
Is Portland an Oasis for Climate Conversation?
by: Max Lorenze & Anna Tobin Procedure This survey was done by two classes of approximately 50 students throughout the city of Portland and its’ periphery. We were assigned to leave the downtown area and go to the suburbs so as to get a wider range of data. Max and I traveled to the Sellwood […]
Noticing the division in Climate Change
By: Sabrina Cerquera & Thea Crowley Introduction As concerns about climate change continues to rise headlines and reach news stands, many individuals have expressed their concern to take action. As students in Lewis & Clark College enrolled in Environmental Studies 160, we were able to look further into this worry of the public. Breaking into […]
Portland: A Case of Climate Change in a Liberalism Paradise
By Mamelang Memela and Nhi Ho Overview/Procedure: In Why We Disagree about Climate Change, Mike Hulme discusses various factors that account for differing views and approaches on climate change. Many of those factors include the various opinions people have about the nature of climate change and its relationship with politics, the economy, religions, development, etc. In order […]
Where does Climate Change Fall on Our Priority List?
Procedure: Our team consists of Emma Hay, Justin Wilson, Sophie Henry and Jesse McDermott-Hughes. To collect data, we took the Pio to Pioneer Square in downtown PDX and approached various people surveying public opinion regarding the importance Climate Change. We asked them to rank how important Climate Change was to them personally, compared to other […]
Oregonian’s Perspective on the Importance of Climate Change
The First Step: Our team members are Karli Uwaine and Heisman Hosoda. The first step we performed in order to complete the survey was taking the Pio Shuttle into downtown Portland. Karli completed two surveys and Heisman completed one. The people that Karli interviewed (one male and one female) ranked the importance of climate change […]
Climate Change in Portland: A Cool Response to a Hot Debate
A group post by M. Fries, E. Gilmore, J. Riedal, C. Schenk PROCEDURE It should first be noted (read: disclaimer) that the collection, results, and review of the aggregate survey data is not professionally valid but will serve our purposes here, regardless. Our group’s data came from surveying demonstrators at the Women’s March held in downtown […]
Portland Put Into a Climate Change Box: Where Do You Stand?
By: Kat Chester, Paige Barta, Molly Sheridan and Leela Hornbach Introduction: The public opinion of climate change is a topic of rising contention. Our group was tasked with modeling a dialogic form of environmental communication in greater Portland and downtown. As discussed in Mike Hulme’s book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, there is a lot up for […]
Is Climate Change a Concern in the Portland Metropolitan Area?
Procedure: Our team of three students, Kurt Barbara, Jordan McLuckie and Isabelle Russenberger, surveyed various areas of the Portland Downtown Metro Area. We approached city-goers on the street to ask them to take a short survey on their thoughts on Climate change, and how they would rate it in terms of level of importance on […]
Climate Change: More of a Grey Area than the Portland Sky
Climate Change is such an expansive issue that it can be a difficult thing to swallow. It is very difficult to assign value to an issue that many see as an issue of the future, as well as an issue not addressed frequently enough, especially politically. Therefore opinion on this topic ranges greatly, as we […]
Exploring Opinions On Climate Change: In Portland and Peripheries
By Collin Kane and Calder Woolums Introduction The planet earth is a complex organism. As political administrations and global communities continue to value profit over preservation and efficiency over environmentalism it is increasingly important to understand the arguments and opinions that shape this debate. In many ways global political bodies are making progressive regulations aimed […]
Portlanders Agree: The Climate, it is a-Changin’
by Grace Boyd, Kiaora Motson, and Hannah Schandelmeier-Lynch. Introduction Climate change continues to be a pressing issue and hot topic, present on the minds of many Americans and individuals across the globe. To uncover the range and source of different opinions on climate change in Portland, our group, Grace Boyd, Kiaora Motson, and Hannah Schandelmeier-Lynch, […]