Election Day felt like a catastrophe on the Lewis & Clark College campus. Conversation was muted. People wore black. People missed class. My peers and professors hadn’t slept. The functions of a normal day disappeared. In my research, catastrophe, disaster, and apocalypse are key terms. It didn’t quite feel like that on 11/9 to me, but it […]
Festival of Scholars
Last Friday, Lewis & Clark College held an annual conference called the Festival of Scholars. Instead of classes, the college hosts a collection of panels, art exhibitions, performances, poster sessions, and other displays of student produced research and work. I was fortunate enough to participate in two poster presentations for my Environmental Studies classes (330 […]
Case Studies Relating to the Bonneville Dam
For our independent project my group is focusing in on the Bonneville Dam. The dam is a recreational area, connected to a salmon hatchery, and provides a large portion of electricity via hydroelectric power to the city of Portland. It is geologically interesting because it is situated right next to two historic landslides. Also, if […]
Three Situated Approaches to Dams and Earthquakes
The Bonneville Dam is not the only dam that has or will at some point be affected by an earthquake, and it is important to realize this when we create situated projects in order to get the top and bottom of the hourglass. Here are three examples dams that were in some way impacted by […]
Earthquakes, Landslides, & Dams in Multiple Contexts
As we begin our research on the earthquake slated to hit the Pacific Northwest and wreck havoc on many of the structures that predated knowledge and subsequent policy of earthquake preparation, we are constantly reminded that the last earthquake to hit Oregon occurred well before Euro-American settlement. The historic (and subsequent temporal removal) is major […]