I am currently in the middle of data collection, digging through Crunchbase finding Ag Data and Precision Ag companies. I have just about wrapped up California companies, finding and coding for 24 different companies. However, three of these companies were no longer active or difficult to find data for and four companies focused on something other […]
Time for Data Collection
This past week I have been collecting data and settling on interesting and doable methodology. My focus question is currently set as: To what extent have precision agriculture technologies been successful in achieving sustainable development goals in California and India? This question is driven by sustainable development goals and what current technologies are achieving. However, farming data […]
The Outline of an Outline
This week was focused on creating an outline that will be used for both the 5-page paper at the end of the semester and my final paper/thesis outcome. The following outcome was created with pretty strict adherence to the guideline for situated research as posted on the ENVS page. Outlining was helpful for identifying the […]
Time For a Timeline
As the semester is entering its final third, it is time to reflect on what I have accomplished so far and what else I will need to do for the rest of the semester. So far, I feel that I have a framing question and a solid base of research that forms the basis for […]
Having Too Many Options – Thinking About Focus Questions
This past week I have spent a lot of time thinking about my focus question and possible research methods. Through this process, I am trying out several different question types and going to see what makes the most sense to go forward with. What are sustainable development values held for various future agriculture technologies? I […]
Learning From Past Projects and Finding a New Focus
Through continued research and looking at capstones from previous students I realized something critical: I am already feeling kind of bored with my capstone. I could go through the motions and have a fine capstone about the sustainable development impacts of artificial intelligence in rice agriculture in California and North India. But I can already […]
Building a Better Bibliography Using Scale
Finding references for any research can be difficult. It is especially so when dealing with a year-long capstone project. While I have a lot of resources already from related classes and projects, it is not easy figuring out what sources are going to be helpful for my capstone. In order to get a better grasp on different […]
Willapa Bay Research Project Outline
Top of Hourglass 1.1 Background 1.1.1 Justification for studying credibility of science Thomas S. Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, discusses the long standing linear notions of the scientific process. The scientific method was created by humans, and should be look at critically instead of as an absolute. Scientists are constantly trying to […]
Conclusions On Urban Green Spaces Project
Being almost done with my group project for ENVS 220, Urban Green Spaces and Development in Portland, I have learned a lot about conducting situated research with limited resources. First, I am pretty proud of the work my whole team put in to put this project together, and I think it turned out pretty well. […]