Team: Anna Blythe, Travis Meng, Hannah Smay Background Building on our lab from last week, we continued to study the number of threatened fish species among the 25 2014-2015 Lewis & Clark overseas programs. In order to begin to get a better idea of what causes the variance in threatened fish species among these countries, […]
Back to School: September
It’s always difficult to make the transition from summertime adventures back to the university routine. A few weeks ago, I made my annual migration northwest, driving the Columbia River Gorge towards Portland. Everyone is back, learning about new technologies and remembering more than we thought we would from last year. We began our semester […]
Local in the Global Scale
When we discussed the concept of “local” in relation to french fries and Burgerville, I realized how incredible impossible it is to be completely “local.” Just in the room I am sitting in, I can’t see anything that I would in any way consider “local.” Shoes from Germany, a water bottle purchased in Idaho, chairs […]
What do Tuna, Lawns, and Bottled Water have in Common?
Privilege. I remember the first time my mother told me to never, ever, ever drink bottled water- I was a sophomore in high school and Take Back the Tap was going viral, especially amongst environmentalist circles. I never really drank bottled water growing up, since we had a nice BRITA filter on our tap and […]
Grand Coulee Dam Project
The object of focus for my ENVS research project was Grand Coulee Dam, situated in the historical context of the Great Depression and World War II. The dimensions that most surprised and fascinated me were the rhetorical strategies used by proponents of the dam project to create a larger-than-life media sensation to spur public and […]