In this post, I will be reviewing literature stemming from the other powerhouse of salmon production in the world: the northwest coast of North America. During my work over the summer of 2015 at Chugach National Forest in Alaska, I discovered the prominence of the salmon industry (and all things salmon-related) in Alaska. Naturally, I decided […]
Archives for September 2015
Lab 4 ENVS 220: ArcGIS
At this link, you will find the writeup of ENVS 220 Lab 4. Summary GIS is a powerful tool for observing tabular data in a spatial format. This was the topic for this week’s lab: using ArcGIS software to compare different a vast number of variables. For example, we chose to compare the healthy average […]
Scotland’s Salmon Scene
In this post, I will outline some of the main ideas of various scholarly literature (limited to publications released since 2000, unless research regarding a specific topic is unavailable) regarding salmon management in the UK, with Scotland as a focus. I chose western Europe, the UK, and Scotland as a geographic focus for my concentration […]
Lab 3 ENVS 220: Inferential Statistics
On 9/21, the ENVS 220 class had its fourth lab, and the topic at hand was inferential statistics. By the end of the three hours, we had practiced taking raw data from a real-world source (UNEP, in this lab) and interpreting trends, behaviors, and correlations after statistically testing the data through the SPSS Statistics program. Overall, the lab […]
Salmon and Situated Areas of Interest
To incorporate research from across the globe, I will pick 3 geographic regions and review literature regarding recent applied fish conservation research (to narrow research down, I may restrict my scope to species in the Salmonidae family). These different regions and their respective bodies tasked with fish management place emphasis on several different areas, and […]