Narrative is my jam. In addition to being a (prospective) ENVS major, I am a declared English major. I love plots and language and the way words sound when you put them together and say them out loud. Last week, we read a treatment on narrative and stories by a genius named William Cronon. Cronon […]
Google Tours: RVNA and Beyond
Background This week in lab we explored Google Earth Tours as a tool to tell a geographic narrative. Google Earth uses GIS technologies to consolidate layers of satellite data and images to encompass the whole globe down to individual structures. Following from our class sourced data from last week’s lab in River View Natural Area, […]
Google Earth Tours
This tour illustrates some of the places in Idaho I got to visit this summer while living at home. I was able to explore some new mountains and also return to some of the amazing rivers and lakes I grew up visiting. All photos are my own. Being able to fly around Idaho on Google […]
Ivy Removal & Douglas Fir Canopy in River View Natural Area
This week’s lab was an investigation into River View Natural Area. We looked for patterns in ivy removal and canopy cover, and our write up is available here.
Too Many Questions, Never Enough Answers
Descriptive Questions: In the junction of English & Environmental Studies, situated in the literature of the American West, descriptive questions could simply ask what kinds of literature have been written about the West? What poems, what novels, what epics, what essays? Simply, what narratives capture the rivers of the West? What are the common themes, […]