We compared Barbur Boulevard and the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon as hybrid objects. Click here for our analysis.
Developing My Area of Interest
In revisiting and revising my area of interest, I have struggled with the clarity of my questions, but I have also been influenced a great deal by Constructing the American Landscape, a history class I am currently taking. How do we ask questions that fall into the four categories – descriptive, explanatory, evaluative, and instrumental? […]
Narrative Analysis: Finally
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 […]